Diagnosing Northern Hemisphere Jet Portrayal in 17 CMIP3 Global Climate Models: Twenty-First-Century Projections
Diagnosing Northern Hemisphere Jet Portrayal in 17 CMIP3 Global Climate Models: Twenty-First-Century Projections
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DOI:
10.1175/jcli-d-12-00359.1
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发表时间:
2013-07
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4.9
通讯作者:
Sharon C. Delcambre;D. Lorenz;D. Vimont;Jonathan E. Martin
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作者:
Sharon C. Delcambre;D. Lorenz;D. Vimont;Jonathan E. Martin
The anthropogenic climate change impacts on the eddy‐jet system include an intensified midlatitude jet stream and an elevated tropopause, as well as a poleward-shifted jet. While both responses are evident in phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) ensemble mean twenty-first-century projections, uncertainty in the poleward shift response is large enough that even the sign of the shift is not consistent among all models, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. The present analysis finds that twentyfirst-century projections of the ensemble mean zonal wind change at 300 hPa predict a weakening and poleward expansion of the Pacific jet and an overall expansion of the Atlantic jet. In contrast with the direct zonal mean climate change signal of increasing midlatitude upper-level winds, zonal winds are projected to decreaseinthecoreofthePacificandAtlanticjets,withincreasingzonalwindslocatedprimarilyinthejetexit regions and the meridional flanks of the jets. Uncertainties in SST changes from the twentieth century to the twenty-first century between models are shown to impact modeled Northern Hemisphere jet stream changes.