Polar and Topographic Amplifications of Inter-model Spread of Surface Temperature in Climate Models
Polar and Topographic Amplifications of Inter-model Spread of Surface Temperature in Climate Models
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气候模型中地表温度模型间传播的极地和地形放大
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10.1029/2022jd037509
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Jianhua Lu
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Tao Wang;Hua Gong;Yimin Liu;Jianhua Lu
The spatial pattern of inter-model spread of surface temperature (TS-SPREAD) is similar to the absolute error of modeled surface temperature relative to observations, implying the possibility of using inter-model spread to understand the model biases. The regions with maximum TS-SPREAD are located in the northern and southern polar regions, and regions with the large orographic features, such as the Tibetan Plateau. We find: (1) Winter amplification exists in the TS-SPREAD over both the northern and southern polar regions, but the maximum TS-SPREAD over the Tibetan Plateau happens during spring and summer with weak seasonality there; (2) Surface energy balance analyses show salient land-sea contrast in the inter-linkage between the physical processes; (3) Over the Arctic Ocean and the Southern Ocean, the maximum spreads of sea-ice-induced surface albedo appear during summer when the TS-SPREADs are the weakest because the effect of surface albedo is offset by the heat storage in the oceans; (4) Through the inter-seasonal linkage of the heat storage term, i.e., the summer-restoring-winter-releasing of oceanic heat content, the summer surface albedo may indirectly contribute to the winter amplification of the TS-SPREAD over the polar oceans. Such inter-seasonal linkage of the processes does not exist over the land areas. A method of distinguishing the roles of the local and non-local dynamical processes in the contribution of the clear-sky downward longwave radiation to the TS-SPREAD is also provided.