Opposite annular responses of the Northern and Southern hemispheres to Indian ocean warming.
Opposite annular responses of the Northern and Southern hemispheres to Indian ocean warming.
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DOI:
10.1175/2010jcli3410.1
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发表时间:
2010-07
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Shuanglin Li;J. Perlwitz;M. Hoerling;Xiaoting Chen
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Shuanglin Li;J. Perlwitz;M. Hoerling;Xiaoting Chen
Abstract Atmospheric circulation changes during boreal winter of the second half of the twentieth century exhibit a trend toward the positive polarity of both the Northern Hemisphere annular mode (NAM) and the Southern Hemisphere annular mode (SAM). This has occurred in concert with other trends in the climate system, most notably a warming of the Indian Ocean. This study explores whether the tropical Indian Ocean warming played a role in forcing these annular trends. Five different atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) are forced with an idealized, transient warming of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA); the results of this indicate that the warming contributed to the annular trend in the NH but offset the annular trend in SH. The latter result implies that the Indian Ocean warming may have partly cancelled the influence of the stratospheric ozone depletion over the southern polar area, which itself forced a trend toward the positive phase of the SAM. Diagnosis of the physical...