A tropical influence on global climate

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1349-1358

  Schneider, Edwin K ^a   Lindzen, Richard S ^b   Kirtman, Ben P ^a  

^a Ctr Ocean Land Atmosphere Studs   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

TROPICAL INFLUENCE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

AIR/SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE DOUBLING; CLIMATE CHANGE; GCM; GLOBAL WARMING; OCEAN COLD TONGUE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE; TROPICS;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL EAST);

EID: 0031133966     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<1349:ATIOGC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bjerknes, J., 1969: Atmospheric teleconnections from the equatorial Pacific. Mon. Wea. Rev., 97, 163-172.
2. Christy, J. R., and R. T. McNider, 1994: Satellite greenhouse signal. Nature, 367, 325.
3. Clement, A. C., R. Seager, M. A. Cane, and S. E. Zebiak, 1996: An ocean dynamical thermostat. J. Climate, 9, 2190-2196.
4. Dewitt, D. G., E. K. Schneider, and A. D. Vernekar, 1996: Factors determining the precipitation distribution and low-level flow in the tropics of an atmospheric general circulation model: Diagnostic studies. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 2247-2263.
5. Emanuel, K. A., J. D. Neelin, and C. S. Bretherton, 1994: On large-scale circulations in convecting atmospheres. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 120, 1111-1143.
6. Gill, A. E., 1980: Some simple solutions for heat-induced tropical circulations. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 106, 447-462.
7. 2 in a coupled ocean-atmosphere model. J. Climate, 8, 2181-2199.
8. Kuo, H. L., 1965: On the formation and intensification of tropical cyclones through latent heat release by cumulus convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 22, 40-63.
9. Lindzen, R. S., and S. Nigam, 1987: On the role of sea surface temperature gradients in forcing low-level winds and convergence in the tropic. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 2418-2436.
10. Mechoso, C. R., and Coauthors, 1995: The seasonal cycle over the tropical Pacific in coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 123, 2825-2838.
11. 2 in a GCM with a simple mixed layer ocean: Similarities to an observed Pacific warm event. Mon. Wea. Rev., 114, 667-674.
12. 2 concentrations. Nature, 382, 56-60.
13. Mitchell, J. F. B., S. Manabe, T. Tokioka, and V. Meleshko, 1990: Equilibrium climate change. Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment, J. T. Houghton, G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, Eds., Cambridge University Press, 131-172.
14. Murphy, J. M., 1995: Transient response of the Hadley Centre coupled ocean-atmosphere model to increasing carbon dioxide. Part I: Control climate and flux adjustment. J. Climate, 8, 36-56.
15. Pan, Y.-H., and A. H. Oort, 1983: Global climate variations connected with sea surface temperature anomalies in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean for the 1958-1973 period. Mon. Wea. Rev., 111, 1244-1258.
16. Peixoto, J. P., and A. H. Oort, 1992: Physics of Climate. American Institute of Physics, 520 pp.
17. Schneider, E. K., 1977: Axially symmetric steady state models of the basic state for instability and climate studies. Part II: Nonlinear calculations. J. Atmos. Sci., 34, 280-292.
18. _, 1987: A simplified model of the modified Hadley circulation. J. Atmos. Sci., 44, 3311-3328.
19. _, and J. L. Kinter III, 1994: An examination of internally generated variability in long climate simulations. Climate Dyn., 10, 181-204.
20. _, B. Huang, and J. Shukla, 1995: Ocean wave dynamics and El Niño. J. Climate, 8, 2415-2439.
21. _, Z. Zhu, B. Huang, B. S. Giese, B. P. Kirtman, J. Shukla, and J. A. Carton, 1997: Annual cycle and ENSO in a coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 680-702.
22. Sun, D.-Z., and Z. Liu, 1996: Dynamic ocean-atmosphere coupling: A thermostat for the tropics. Science, 272, 1148-1149.
23. Wyrtki, K., 1985: Water displacements in the Pacific and the genesis of El Niño cycles. J. Geophys. Res., 90, 7129-7132.