Dominant Mode of Climate Variability, Intermodel Diversity, and Projected Future Changes over the Summertime Western North Pacific Simulated in the CMIP3 Models
Dominant Mode of Climate Variability, Intermodel Diversity, and Projected Future Changes over the Summertime Western North Pacific Simulated in the CMIP3 Models
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DOI:
10.1175/2011jcli3907.1
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发表时间:
2011-08
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Y. Kosaka;H. Nakamura
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作者:
Y. Kosaka;H. Nakamura
AbstractA set of multimodel twentieth-century climate simulations for phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) is analyzed to assess the model reproducibility of the Pacific–Japan (PJ) teleconnection pattern. It is the dominant low-frequency anomaly pattern over the summertime western North Pacific (WNP), characterized by a meridional dipole of zonally elongated vorticity anomalies in the lower troposphere and by anomalous precipitation over the tropical WNP. Most of the models can reproduce the PJ pattern reasonably well as one of the leading anomaly patterns or their combination. The model reproducibility of the pattern tends to be higher for those models in which the climatological-mean state over the WNP is better reproduced. Furthermore, intermodel diversity in the summertime climatological-mean fields over the WNP, especially in the lower troposphere, is found to be large and projected most strongly onto the observed PJ pattern. Nevertheless, the multimodel ensemble (MME) mean of...