Tropical-extratropical climate interaction as revealed in idealized coupled climate model experiments

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 24, Issue 7-8, 2005, Pages 863-879

  Yang, Haijun ^a   Liu, Zhengyu ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; EKMAN TRANSPORT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL METEOROLOGY;

EID: 24044522278     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-005-0021-8     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Alexander MA, Blade I, Newman M, Lanzante JR, Lau NC, Scott JD (2002) The atmospheric bridge: The influence of ENSO teleconnections on air-sea interaction over the global oceans. J Climate 15:2205-2231 10.1175/ 1520-0442(2002)015<2205:TABTIO>2.0.CO;2
2. Barlow M, Nigam S, Berbery EH (2001) ENSO, Pacific decadal variability, and US summertime precipitation, drought, and streamflow. J Climate 14:2105-2128 10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<2105:EPDVAU>2.0.CO;2
3. Barnett TD, Pierce W, Latif M, Dommenget D, Saravana R (1999) Interdecadal interactions between the tropics and the midlatitudes in the Pacific basin. Geophys Res Lett 26:615-618 10.1029/1999GL900042
4. Cane MA, Clement AC, Kaplan A, Kushnir Y, Pozdnyakov D, Seager R, Zebiak SE, Murtugudde R (1997) Twentieth-Century sea surface temperature trends. Science 275:957-960 10.1126/science.275.5302.957
5. Clement AC, Seager R, Cane MA, Zebiak SE (1996) An ocean dynamic thermostat. J Climate 9:2190-2196 10.1175/ 1520-0442(1996)009<2190:AODT>2.0.CO;2
6. Curry JA, Schramm JL, Ebert EE (1995) Sea ice-albedo climate feedback mechanism. J Climate 8:240-247 10.1175/ 1520-0442(1995)008<0240:SIACFM>2.0.CO;2
7. Enfield DB, Mayer DA (1997) Tropical Atlantic sea surface temperature variability and its relation to El Nino-Southern Oscillation. J Geophys Res 102:929-945 10.1029/96JC03296
8. Gu D, Philander SGH (1997) Interdecadal climate fluctuations that depend on exchanges between the tropics and extratropics. Science 275:805-807 10.1126/science.275.5301.805
9. Hoerling M, Kumar A (2003) The perfect ocean for drought. Science 299:691-694 10.1126/science.1079053
10. Hoerling MP, Hurrell JW, Xu T (2001) Tropical origins for recent North Atlantic climate change. Science 292:90-92 10.1126/science.1058582
11. Jacob (1997) Low frequency variability in a simulated atmosphere ocean system. PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin, p 155
12. Johnson GC, McPhaden MJ (1999) Interior pycnocline flow from the subtropical to equatorial Pacific Ocean. J Phys Oceanogr 29:3073-3089 10.1175/1520-0485(1999)029<3073:IPFFTS>2.0.CO;2
13. Kerr RA (2004) Three degrees of consensus. Science 305:932-934 10.1126/ science.305.5686.932
14. Kleeman R, McCreary JP, Klinger BA (1999) A mechanism for generating ENSO decadal variability. Geophys Res Lett 26:1743-1746 10.1029/ 1999GL900352
15. Lau NC (1997) Interactions between global SST anomalies and the midlatitude atmospheric circulation. Bull Am Meteor Soc 78:21-33 10.1175/ 1520-0477(1997)078<0021:IBGSAA>2.0.CO;2
16. Lea DW (2004) The 100,000-year cycle in tropical SST, greenhouse forcing, and climate sensitivity. J Climate 17:2170-2179 10.1175/ 1520-0442(2004)017<2170:TYCITS>2.0.CO;2
17. Lea DW, Pak DK, Spero HJ (2000) Climate impact of late quaternary equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature variations. Science 289:1719-1724 10.1126/science.289.5485.1719
18. Liu Z (1998) The role of ocean in the transient response of tropical climatology to global warming: The west-east SST contrast. J Climate 11:864-875 10.1175/1520-0442(1998)011<0864:TROOIT>2.0.CO;2
19. Liu Z, Wu L (2000) Tropical Atlantic oscillation in a coupled GCM. Atmos Sci Lett 1:26-36 10.1006/asle.2000.0003
20. Liu Z, Yang H (2003) Extratropical control of tropical climate, the atmospheric bridge and OT. Geophys Res Lett 30(5). doi: 10.1029/ 2002GL016492
21. Liu Z, Philander SDH, Pacanowski R (1994) A GCM study of tropical -subtropical upper ocean mass exchange. J Phys Oceanogr 24:2606-2623 10.1175/1520-0485(1994)024<2606:AGSOTU>2.0.CO;2
22. Liu Z, Kutzbach J, Wu L (2000) Modeling climate shift of El Nino variability in the Holocene. Geophys Res Lett 27:2265-2268 10.1029/ 2000GL011452
23. Liu Z, Wu L, Gallimore R, Jacob R (2002a) Search for the origins of Pacific decadal climate variability. Geophys Res Lett 29(10):dOi: 10.1029/2001GL013735
24. Liu Z, Shin S, Otto-Bliesner B, Kutzbach J, Brady E, Lee DE (2002b) Tropical cooling at the last glacial maximum and extratropical ocean ventilation. Geophys Res Lett 29(10). doi:10.1029/2001GL013938
25. Lu P, McCreary J, Klinger BA (1998) Meridional circulation cells and the source waters of the Pacific equatorial undercurrent. J Phys Oceanogr 28:62-84 10.1175/1520-0485(1998)028<0062:MCCATS>2.0.CO;2
26. Lu J, Greatbatch RJ, Peterson KA (2004) Trend in northern hemisphere winter atmospheric circulation during the last half of the 20th century. J Climate 17:3745-3760 10.1175/ 1520-0442(2004)017<3745:TINHWA>2.0.CO;2
27. McCreary J, Lu P (1994) On the interaction between the subtropical and the equatorial oceans: The subtropical cell. J Phys Oceanogr 24:466-497
28. McPhaden MJ, Zhang DX (2002) Slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation in the upper Pacific Ocean. Nature 415:603-608 10.1038/ 415603a
29. 2 concentrations. Nature 382:56-60 10.1038/382056a0
30. Nonaka M, Xie SP, McCreary JP (2002) Decadal variations in the subtropical cells and equatorial Pacific SST. Geophys Res Lett 29(7). doi: 10.1029/2001GL013717
31. Pierce DW, Barnett TP, Latif M (2000) Connections between the Pacific Ocean Tropics and midlatitudes on decadal timescales. J Climate 13:1173-1194 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<1173:CBTPOT>2.0.CO;2
32. Ramanathan V, Collins W (1991) Thermodynamic regulation of ocean warming by cirrus clouds deduced from observations of the 1987 El Nina. Nature 351:27-32 10.1038/351027a0
33. Rodgers K, Cane MA, Naik N, Schrag D (1999) The role of the Indonesian throughflow in equatorial Pacific thermocline ventilation. J Geophys Res 104:20551-20570 10.1029/1998JC900094
34. Schneider EK, Lindzen RS, Kirtman BP (1997) A tropical influence on global climate. J Atmos Sci 54:1349-1358 10.1175/ 1520-0469(1997)054<1349:ATIOGC>2.0.CO;2
35. Seager R, Murtugudde R (1997) Ocean dynamics, thermocline adjustment and regulation of tropical SST. J Climate 10:521-534 10.1175/ 1520-0442(1997)010<0521:ODTAAR>2.0.CO;2
36. Timmermann A, Latif M, Bacher A, Oberhuber J, Roeckner E (1999) Increased El Niño frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming. Nature 398:694-696 10.1038/19505
37. Wang C (2002) Atmospheric circulation cells associated with the El Nino-Southern oscillation. J Climate 15:399-419 10.1175/ 1520-0442(2002)015<0399:ACCAWT>2.0.CO;2
38. Wu L, Liu Z, Gallimore R, Jacob R, Lee D, Zhong Y (2003) Pacific Decadal variability: The Tropical Pacific mode and the North Pacific mode. J Climate 16:1101-1120 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)16<1101:PDVTTP>2.0.CO;2
39. Yang H, Liu Z (2004) Influence of extratropical thermal and wind forcings on equatorial thermocline in an ocean GCM. J Phys Oceanogr 34:174-187 10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<0174:IOETAW>2.0.CO;2
40. Yu L, Rienecker MM (1999) Mechanisms for the Indian Ocean warming during 1997-1998 El Nino. Geophys Res Lett 26:735-738 10.1029/1999GL900072
41. Zhang Y, Wallace JM (1996) Is climate variability over the North Pacific a linear response to ENSO? J Climate 11:1468-1478 10.1175/ 1520-0442(1996)009<1468:ICVOTN>2.0.CO;2
42. Zhang X, Sheng J, Shabbar A (1998a) Modes of interannual and interdecadal variability of Pacific SST. J Climate 11:2556-2569 10.1175/ 1520-0442(1998)011<2556:MOIAIV>2.0.CO;2
43. Zhang RH, Rothstein LM, Busalacchi AJ (1998b) Origin of warming and El Nino change on decadal scales in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Nature 391:879-883 10.1038/36081