Future Changes in the Brewer–Dobson Circulation under Different Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in WACCM4
Future Changes in the Brewer–Dobson Circulation under Different Greenhouse Gas Concentrations in WACCM4
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WACCM4 中不同温室气体浓度下布鲁尔-多布森环流的未来变化
DOI:
10.1175/jas-d-13-0289.1
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
R. Garcia
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作者:
F. Palmeiro;N. Calvo;R. Garcia
The climatology and future changes of the Brewer‐Dobson circulation (BDC) in three climate change scenarios are studied using the latest version of the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM4), which is fully coupled to an ocean model. The results show an acceleration in both the shallow anddeepbranchesofcirculationin responsetoincreasinggreenhousegases(GHGs)togetherwith anupward displacement of the tropical upwelling in the deep branch near the stratopause. The downward control principlerevealsthatdifferentwavesareinvolvedin forcingtheaccelerationoftheupperandlowerbranches. Climatological-mean tropical upwelling in both the lower and upper stratosphere is dominated by explicitly resolved, planetary-scale waves. Trends in the tropical upwelling in the lower stratosphere are mainly attributedtoexplicitlyresolved,planetary-scalewaves.However,intheupperstratosphere,despitethefactthat resolved waves control the forcing of the climatological upwelling, their contribution to the long-term trend diminishes with increasing GHGs, while the role of gravity waves associated with fronts increases and becomes dominant in the model scenario with the largest GHG increases. The intensification and upward displacementofthesubtropicaltroposphericjetsduetoclimatechangeleadstofilteringofthewesterlypartof the frontal gravity wave spectrum, leaving the easterly components to reach the upper stratosphere and force the changes in the circulation there.