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本文分析了33年(1951—1983年)逐月平均的赤道东太平洋海温距平(SSTA)、热带西北太平洋500hPa高度距平和西北太平洋台风频数距平资料,指出:赤道东太平洋热力状况的异常对西北太平洋台风活动有明显影响。进一步对于1982—1983年的厄尼诺过程进行诊断分析,认为,SSTA异常可以通过经圈环流改变中、低纬环流的相互作用,以此来制约西北太平洋台风活动,即:当赤道东太平洋出现暖水时,北半球的哈得来环流加强,导致中纬度上空西风带加强、斜压扰动向南发展,结果,北半球副热带高压滞留在较低纬度、热带盛行东风气流,形成了不利于西北太平洋台风发生、发展的大尺度环流条件。 相似文献
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N. E. Graham C. M. Ammann D. Fleitmann K. M. Cobb J. Luterbacher 《Climate Dynamics》2011,37(5-6):1217-1245
Widely distributed proxy records indicate that the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA; ~900–1350 AD) was characterized by coherent shifts in large-scale Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation patterns. Although cooler sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific can explain some aspects of medieval circulation changes, they are not sufficient to account for other notable features, including widespread aridity through the Eurasian sub-tropics, stronger winter westerlies across the North Atlantic and Western Europe, and shifts in monsoon rainfall patterns across Africa and South Asia. We present results from a full-physics coupled climate model showing that a slight warming of the tropical Indian and western Pacific Oceans relative to the other tropical ocean basins can induce a broad range of the medieval circulation and climate changes indicated by proxy data, including many of those not explained by a cooler tropical Pacific alone. Important aspects of the results resemble those from previous simulations examining the climatic response to the rapid Indian Ocean warming during the late twentieth century, and to results from climate warming simulations—especially in indicating an expansion of the Northern Hemisphere Hadley circulation. Notably, the pattern of tropical Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) change responsible for producing the proxy-model similarity in our results agrees well with MCA-LIA SST differences obtained in a recent proxy-based climate field reconstruction. Though much remains unclear, our results indicate that the MCA was characterized by an enhanced zonal Indo-Pacific SST gradient with resulting changes in Northern Hemisphere tropical and extra-tropical circulation patterns and hydroclimate regimes, linkages that may explain the coherent regional climate shifts indicated by proxy records from across the planet. The findings provide new perspectives on the nature and possible causes of the MCA—a remarkable, yet incompletely understood episode of Late Holocene climatic change. 相似文献
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E. Roeckner J. M. Oberhuber A. Bacher M. Christoph I. Kirchner 《Climate Dynamics》1996,12(11):737-754
The interannual variability associated with the El Ni?o/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle is investigated using a relatively
high-resolution (T42) coupled general circulation model (CGCM) of the atmosphere and ocean. Although the flux correction is
restricted to annual means of heat and freshwater, the annual as well as the seasonal climate of the CGCM is in good agreement
with that of the atmospheric model component forced with observed sea surface temperatures (SSTs). During a 100-year simulation
of the present-day climate, the model is able to capture many features of the observed interannual SST variability in the
tropical Pacific. This includes amplitude, lifetime and frequency of occurrence of El Ni?o events and also the phase locking
of the SST anomalies to the annual cycle. Although the SST warming during the evolution of El Ni?os is too confined spatially,
and the warming along the Peruvian coast is much too weak, the patterns and magnitudes of key atmospheric anomalies such as
westerly wind stress and precipitation, and also their eastward migration from the western to the central equatorial Pacific
is in accord with observations. There is also a qualitative agreement with the results obtained from the atmospheric model
forced with observed SSTs from 1979 through 1994. The large-scale dynamic response during the mature phase of ENSO (December
through February) is characterized by an eastward displacement and weakening of the Walker cell in the Pacific while the Hadley
cell intensifies and moves equatorward. Similar to the observations, there is a positive correlation between tropical Pacific
SST and the winter circulation in the North Pacific. The deepening of the Aleutian low during the ENSO winters is well captured
by the model as well as the cooling in the central North Pacific and the warming over Canada and Alaska. However, there are
indications that the anomalies of both SST and atmospheric circulation are overemphasized in the North Pacific. Finally, there
is evidence of a coherent downstream effect over the North Atlantic as indicated by negative correlations between the PNA
index and the NAO index, for example. The weakening of the westerlies across the North Atlantic in ENSO winters which is related
to a weakening and southwestward displacement of the Icelandic low, is in broad agreement with the observations, as well as
the weak tendency for colder than normal winters in Europe.
Received: 31 October 1995 / Accepted: 29 May 1996 相似文献
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Pascal Terray 《Climate Dynamics》2011,36(11-12):2171-2199
The main goal of this paper is to shed additional light on the reciprocal dynamical linkages between mid-latitude Southern Hemisphere climate and the El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) signal. While our analysis confirms that ENSO is a dominant source of interannual variability in the Southern Hemisphere, it is also suggested here that subtropical dipole variability in both the Southern Indian and Atlantic Oceans triggered by Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude variability may also provide a controlling influence on ENSO in the equatorial Pacific. This subtropical forcing operates through various coupled air?Csea feedbacks involving the propagation of subtropical sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies into the deep tropics of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans from boreal winter to boreal spring and a subsequent dynamical atmospheric response to these SST anomalies linking the three tropical basins at the beginning of the boreal spring. This atmospheric response is characterized by a significant weakening of the equatorial Atlantic and Indian Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). This weakened ITCZ forces an equatorial ??cold Kelvin wave?? response in the middle to upper troposphere that extends eastward from the heat sink regions into the western Pacific. By modulating the vertical temperature gradient and the stability of the atmosphere over the equatorial western Pacific Ocean, this Kelvin wave response promotes persistent zonal wind and convective anomalies over the western equatorial Pacific, which may trigger El Ni?o onset at the end of the boreal winter. These different processes explain why South Atlantic and Indian subtropical dipole time series indices are highly significant precursors of the Ni?o34 SST index several months in advance before the El Ni?o onset in the equatorial Pacific. This study illustrates that the atmospheric internal variability in the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere may significantly influence ENSO variability. However, this surprising relationship is observed only during recent decades, after the so-called 1976/1977 climate regime shift, suggesting a possible linkage with global warming or decadal fluctuations of the climate system. 相似文献
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南极海冰首要模态呈现偶极子型异常,正负异常中心分别位于别林斯高晋海/阿蒙森海和威德尔海。过去研究表明冬春季节南极海冰涛动异常对后期南极涛动（Antarctic Oscillation,AAO）型大气环流有显著影响,而AAO可以通过经向遥相关等机制影响北半球大气环流和东亚气候。本文中我们利用观测分析发现南极海冰涛动从5～7月（May–July,MJJ）到8～10月（August–October, ASO）有很好的持续性,并进一步分析其对北半球夏季大气环流的可能影响及其物理过程。结果表明,MJJ南极海冰涛动首先通过冰气相互作用在南半球激发持续性的AAO型大气环流异常,使得南半球中纬度和极地及热带之间的气压梯度加大,在MJJ至JAS,纬向平均纬向风呈现显著的正负相间的从南极到北极的经向遥相关型分布。对流层中层位势高度场上,在澳大利亚北部到海洋性大陆区域,出现显著的负异常,在东亚沿岸从低纬到高纬呈现南北走向的“? + ?”太平洋—日本（Pacific–Japan,PJ）遥相关波列,其对应赤道中部太平洋及赤道印度洋存在显著的降水和海温负异常,西北太平洋至我国东部沿海地区存在显著降水正异常和温度负异常;低纬度北美洲到大西洋一带存在的负位势高度异常和北大西洋附近存在的正位势高度异常中心,构成一个类似于西大西洋型遥相关（Western Atlantic,WA）的结构,对应赤道南大西洋降水增加和南撒哈拉地区降水减少。从物理过程来看,南极海冰涛动首先通过局地效应影响Ferrel环流,进而通过经圈环流调整使得海洋性大陆区域和热带大西洋上方的Hadley环流上升支得到增强,海洋性大陆区域特别是菲律宾附近的热带对流活动偏强,激发类似于负位相的PJ波列,影响东亚北太平洋地区的大气环流,而热带大西洋对流增强和北传特征,则通过激发WA遥相关影响大西洋和欧洲地区的大气环流。以上两种通道将持续性MJJ至ASO南极海冰涛动强迫的大气环流信号从南半球中高纬度经热带地区传递到北半球中高纬地区,从而对热带和北半球夏季大气环流产生显著影响。 相似文献
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Previous studies suggested that there are large discrepancies in the intensity trend of the zonally averaged Hadley circulation (ZAHC) among different reanalyses. As the land, ocean, and topography are not evenly distributed, the ZAHC may mask the regional variability. Changes in the regional HC have important implications for regional climate change. Here, we detect the long-term trend of the boreal spring regional Hadley circulation intensity over the western Pacific (WPHC) since 1979 in both hemispheres using six reanalysis datasets. Unlike the ZAHC, we find that the trend of the spring WPHC intensity is consistent among various reanalysis datasets. All reanalyses show pronounced strengthening trends for the WPHC in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, which may be partly attributable to the robust warming trends of sea surface temperature in the tropical western Pacific. The result could improve our understanding of Hadley circulation variability at the regional scale and has implications for regional climate changes. 相似文献
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2005年北半球大气环流特征及其对中国气候异常的影响 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
2005年北半球主要环流特征为，500hPa西太平洋副热带高压较常年明显偏强，位置总体偏西偏北，春季副高位置异常偏西；东亚地区夏季500hPa位势高度距平场上大部地区为正距平分布，贝加尔湖南部为正距平中心。亚洲中纬度经、纬向环流交替出现，冬季经向环流异常发展，造成我国东部地区气温异常偏低；夏李纬向环流发展，同时东亚夏季风偏强，汛期主要雨带位置位于淮河流域。冬、春李热带对流活动减弱，入夏以后迅速加强，台风活动活跃。热带海洋为暖水位相。在海洋和大气环流的共同影响下我国天气气候发生了明显异常。 相似文献
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本文利用1957年9月到2002年8月,共540个月的ERA-40的经向风和臭氧质量混合比月平均资料,分析研究了平均经圈环流(MMC)和Hadley环流强弱特征变化及其与臭氧变化的关系.分析指出:(1)平均经圈环流与臭氧分布在垂直方向上有很好的对应和相关关系,平均经圈环流是形成臭氧水平、垂直的气候平均态分布,季节变化,年代际变化的重要因素;(2)垂直方向上北半球臭氧浓度的变化比南半球的变化更明显;(3)典型相关分析表明平均经圈环流与臭氧浓度变化在不同的高度和纬度上有不同的相关关系,臭氧与Hadley和Ferrel环流存在密切的相关关系,特别是Hadley环流,这表明Hadley环流在全球大气臭氧的变化中起重要作用. 相似文献
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北半球冬季大气环流遥相关型特征与我国区域气候 总被引：7，自引：2，他引：7
计算了1951／1952～2002／2003年北半球冬季大气环流遥相关型的强度指数，研究了它们的长期变化和近期特征，指出近10年来WA型的负趋势，PNA型的正趋势还在持续并有所加强。它们的强度突变分别发生于20世纪80年代初(WA型1984年由强转弱)及70年代中(PNA型1976年由弱转强)。还指出，近10年来，亚洲(亚欧)地区的纬向环流强度继续在加强，经向环流强度继续在减弱，大气环流及遥相关型强度的这种变化是中国冬季气候变化的一个重要原因。 相似文献
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Using OLR and 850 hPa and 200 hPa wind fields data (1979 – 2006), this paper diagnoses the
characteristics of convection over the tropical area in preceding autumns and winters in association with
April precipitation anomalies in Shandong province. It is found that preceding convection anomalies over
the Western Pacific Warm Pool in December have close relationships with the April precipitation in
Shandong. Further analysis of the relationship with the general circulation over the East Asia shows that
the convection anomaly over the Western Pacific Warm Pool has close relationships with the Main East
Asian Trough, the Hadley cell over East Asia and the Walker cell. The characteristics of East Asian
atmospheric circulation anomalies accompanied with stronger (weaker) convection are consistent with
those of less (more) April precipitation anomalies in Shandong. Therefore, the convection anomaly over the
tropics in December may be an important indicator for April precipitation in Shandong. 相似文献
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气候系统模式对Hadley环流的模拟和未来变化预估 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
针对全球变暖背景下未来Hadley环流将如何变化这一问题,评估了气候系统模式对1970~1999年Hadley环流时空特征的模拟效能,并在此基础上选取能合理模拟Hadley环流空间结构、强度指数和边界指数变化的3个模式,通过多模式集合方法预估了未来Hadley环流在A1B排放情景下的可能演变。预估结果表明,在全球变暖背景下,相比于1970~1999年,到本世纪末期(2070~2099年),北半球Hadley环流在4个季节都将减弱,春季变化幅度相对较弱;南半球Hadley环流在冬季和夏季也会减弱,而在春季和秋季的变化不明显。另外,北半球Hadley环流的北边界除在夏季向南收缩外,在其它3个季节均向北伸展;南半球Hadley环流的南边界在4个季节均向极地方向移动。两个半球的Hadley环流在垂直方向还将向对流层上层伸展。
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Model Evaluation and Projection on the Linkage between Hadley Circulation and Atmospheric Background Related to the Tropical Cyclone Frequency over the Western North Pacific 
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The performance of climate models in simulating the linkage of the spring Hadley circulation (HC) to the vertical zonal wind shear and atmospheric divergence in the lower and upper troposphere, which are related to the tropical cyclone frequency over the western North Pacific (WNPTCF) during June-September (JJAS), is evaluated on the basis of the 20th century climate simulations (20C3M). It is found that four models can simulta-neously reproduce the pattern revealed in the observation, with the spring HC in the Northern Hemisphere being positively correlated to the vertical zonal wind shear in the major tropical cyclone (TC) genesis region and negatively (positively) correlated to the atmospheric diver- gence in the upper (lower) troposphere over the western North Pacific (WNP) in the following JJAS. These four models are further used to project their relationship in the late 21st century under the A1B scenario. The results show that the association of spring HC with the vertical zonal wind shear and the upper-and lower-tropospheric divergence over the WNP will weaken in the late 21st century, thereby resulting in a weak relationship between the spring HC and the JJAS WNPTCF. 相似文献
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Climate at the time of inception of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (LIS) at ~115 kyr BP is simulated with the fully coupled NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM3) and compared to a simulated preindustrial climate (circa 1870) in order to better understand land surface and atmospheric responses to orbital and greenhouse cooling at inception. The interaction between obliquity and eccentricity produces maximum decrease in TOA insolation in JJA over the Arctic but increases occur over the tropics in DJF. The land surface response is dominated by widespread summer cooling in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), increases in snowfall, and decreases in melt rates and total precipitation. CCSM3 responds to the climate forcing at 115 kyr BP by producing incipient glaciation in the areas of LIS nucleation. We find that the inception of the LIS could have occurred with atmospheric circulation patterns that differ little from the present. The location of the troughs/ridges, mean flow over the Canadian Arctic and dominant modes of the atmospheric circulation are all very similar to the present. Larger changes in mean sea level pressure occur upstream of the inception region in the North Pacific Ocean and downstream in Western Europe. In the North Pacific region, the 115 kyr BP anomalies weaken both the Pacific high and Aleutian low making NH summers look more like the PREIND winters and vice versa. The occurrence of cold JJA anomalies at 115 kyr BP favors outbreaks of cold air not in the winter as in contemporary climates but during the summer instead and reinforces the cooling from orbital and GHG reductions. Increased poleward eddy transport of heat and moisture characterizes the atmospheric response in addition to reduced total cloud cover in the Arctic. 相似文献
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In this study we investigate the role of heat, freshwater and momentum fluxes in changing the oceanic climate and thermohaline
circulation as a consequence of increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration. Two baseline integrations with a fully coupled ocean atmosphere general circulation model with either fixed
or increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations have been performed. In a set of sensitivity experiments either freshwater (precipitation, evaporation and
runoff from the continents) and/or momentum fluxes were no longer simulated, but prescribed according to one of the fully
coupled baseline experiments. This approach gives a direct estimate of the contribution from the individual flux components.
The direct effect of surface warming and the associated feedbacks in ocean circulation are the dominant processes in weakening
the Atlantic thermohaline circulation in our model. The relative contribution of momentum and freshwater fluxes to the total
response turned out to be less than 25%, each. Changes in atmospheric water vapour transport lead to enhanced freshwater input
into middle and high latitudes, which weakens the overturning. A stronger export of freshwater from the Atlantic drainage
basin to the Indian and Pacific ocean, on the other hand, intensifies the Atlantic overturning circulation. In total the modified
freshwater fluxes slightly weaken the Atlantic thermohaline circulation. The contribution of the modified momentum fluxes
has a similar magnitude, but enhances the formation of North Atlantic deep water. Salinity anomalies in the Atlantic as a
consequence of greenhouse warming stem in almost equal parts from changes in net freshwater fluxes and from changes in ocean
circulation caused by the surface warming due to atmospheric heat fluxes. Important effects of the momentum fluxes are a poleward
shift of the front between Northern Hemisphere subtropical and subpolar gyres and a southward shift in the position of the
Antarctic circumpolar current, with a clear signal in sea level.
Received: 3 May 1999 / Accepted: 11 December 1999 相似文献
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NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and the spectral atmospheric general circulation Model (AGCM)
of IAP/LASG (SAMIL) are employed to investigate the transport and balance of atmospheric angular
momentum (AAM). It is demonstrated that SAMIL depicts the general features of the AAM transport
and balance reasonably well. The AAM sources are in the tropics and sinks are in the mid-latitudes.
The strongest meridional transport occurs in the upper troposphere. The atmosphere gains westerly
momentum and transports it upward in the areas of surface easterlies, and downward into the areas
of surface westerlies. Consequently, AAM balance is maintained. Systematic biases of the model
compared to the reanalysis and observations are revealed. Possible mechanisms for these biases are
investigated. In SAMIL, the friction torque in the tropics is stronger compared to the observations,
which is probably due to the excessive precipitation along the Inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ)
in the model, since the simulated Hadley circulation is much stronger than observed. In the winter
half of the year, the transport center is in the lower troposphere in the SAMIL model, but it is in
the upper troposphere in the reanalysis and observations. These discrepancies also suggest that
simulations of convection and tropical precipitation need to be improved and that higher resolution
is necessary for a quantitative simulation of AAM transport and balance. Results also demonstrate
that the analysis of the transport and balance of atmospheric angular momentum is a powerful tool
in diagnosing climate models for potential improvement. 相似文献
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1999年北半球大气环流特征及其影响 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
１９９９年北半球主要环流特征为：５００ｈｐａ西太平洋副热带高压较常所明显偏弱,春、夏季副高位置异常偏东;东亚地区夏季５００ｈｐａ位势高度距平场上表现为北高南低,大陆高压较强。亚洲中纬度经、纬向环流交替出现,阶段性明显;冬季冷空气异常偏弱,东亚夏季风加强。冬、春季热带对流活动强盛,入夏以后迅速减弱。在Ｌa－ｎｉｎａ和大气 环流的共同影响下我国天气气候发生了明显异常。 相似文献
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A survey of the spatial and temporal behavior of the atmospheric general circulation as it relates to both polar regions is presented. The review is based on the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) 40-year reanalysis (ERA-40), updated using ECMWF operational analyses. The analysis spans 1960–2005 in the Northern Hemisphere, but is restricted to 1979–2005 in the Southern Hemisphere because of difficulties experienced by ERA-40 prior to the modern satellite era.The seasonal cycle of atmospheric circulation is illustrated by focusing on winter and summer. The huge circulation contrasts between the land-dominated Northern Hemisphere and the ocean-dominated Southern Hemisphere stand out. The intensification of the North Atlantic Oscillation/Northern Annular Mode and the Southern Annular Mode in DJF is highlighted and likely due to warming of the tropical Indian Ocean. The Arctic frontal zone during northern summer and the semi-annual oscillation throughout the year in the Southern Hemisphere are prominent features of the high latitude circulation in the respective hemispheres.Rotated principal component analysis (RPCA) is used to describe the primary modes of temporal variability affecting both polar regions, especially the links with the tropical forcing. The North Atlantic Oscillation is a key modulator of the atmospheric circulation in the North Atlantic sector, especially in winter, and is the dominant control on the moisture transport into the Arctic Basin. The Pacific-South American teleconnection patterns are primary factors in the high southern latitude circulation variability throughout the year, especially in the Pacific sector of Antarctica where the majority of moisture transport into the continent occurs. 相似文献
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The impact of various model formulations on model climate during boreal winter is studied using ensembles of seasonal integrations
for four different versions of the ECMWF NWP model. The model versions, cycles 36, 46, 48 and 12r1, differ primarily in the
representation of physical parametrization. In addition, higher vertical resolution was used for the 12r1 integrations. In
the more recent cycles (48 and 12r1) a strong systematic overestimation of zonal flow over the northeastern Pacific has been
dramatically reduced, contributing to a more realistic representation of the Pacific block. This improved representation of
blocking, particularly in cycle 12r1, is linked to a more efficient diabatic response of the model to the warm SSTs in the
western tropical Pacific. In contrast, over the Atlantic/European region a slight deterioration of blocking frequency in cycle
12r1 is associated with the strengthening of the Atlantic jet. The improvement in the Southern Hemisphere circulation, already
evident in cycle 46, is not seen in the Northern Hemisphere, so it is argued that the impact of radiation changes introduced
between cycle 36 and cycle 46 (inclusive) is influenced by seasonal cycle. A strong cooling of the southern (summer) polar
stratosphere has been steadily reduced and in cycle 12r1 is about half of that seen in cycle 36. A reduction of errors in
zonally averaged zonal wind and eddy kinetic energy is also clearly seen. In the tropics, the Hadley circulation has become
more intense with the later cycles. This is associated with an intensification of convective rainfall within relatively narrow
tropical convergence zones. Finally, it was found that the representation of interannual variations between strong positive
and negative ENSO-index winters was most successful in cycle 12r1.
Received: 30 November 1995 / Accepted: 13 July 1996 相似文献
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The Walker circulation is one of the major components of the large-scale tropical atmospheric circulation and variations in its strength are critical to equatorial Pacific Ocean circulation.It has been argued in the literature that during the 20th century the Walker circulation weakened,and that this weakening was attributable to anthropogenic climate change.By using updated observations,we show that there has been a rapid interdecadal enhancement of the Walker circulation since the late 1990s.Associated with this enhancement is enhanced precipitation in the tropical western Pacific,anomalous westerlies in the upper troposphere,descent in the central and eastern tropical Pacific,and anomalous surface easterlies in the western and central tropical Pacific.The characteristics of associated oceanic changes are a strengthened thermocline slope and an enhanced zonal SST gradient across the tropical Pacific.Many characteristics of these changes are similar to those associated with the mid-1970s climate shift with an opposite sign.We also show that the interdecadal variability of the Walker circulation in the tropical Pacific is inversely correlated to the interdecadal variability of the zonal circulation in the tropical Atlantic.An enhancement of the Walker circulation in the tropical Pacific is associated with a weakening zonal circulation in the tropical Atlantic and vise versa,implying an inter-Atlantic-Pacific connection of the zonal overturning circulation variation.Whether these recent changes will be sustained is not yet clear,but our research highlights the importance of understanding the interdecadal variability,as well as the long-term trends,that influence tropical circulation. 相似文献
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We discuss climate impacts of a hypothetical shutdown of the thermohaline circulation (‘THC’) in the 2050s, using the climate model HadCM3. Previous studies have generally focussed on the effects on pre-industrial climate. Here we take into account increased greenhouse gas concentrations according to an IS92a emissions scenario. THC shutdown causes cooling of the Northern Hemisphere of -1.7?C, locally stronger. Over western Europe cooling is strong enough for a return to pre-industrial conditions and a significant increase in the occurrence of frost and snow cover. Global warming restricts the increase in sea ice cover after THC shutdown. This lessens the amount of cooling over NW Europe, but increases it over North America, compared to pre-industrial shutdown. This reflects a non-linearity in the local temperature response to THC shutdown. Precipitation change after THC shutdown is generally opposite to that caused by global warming, except in western and southern Europe, where summer drying is enhanced, and in Central America and southeast Asia, where precipitation is also further reduced. Local rise in sea level after THC shutdown can be large along Atlantic coasts (pm; 25,cm), which would add to the rise caused by global warming. Potentially rapid THC shutdown adds to the range of uncertainty of projected future climate change. 相似文献