A possible mechanism for El Nino-like warming in response to the future greenhouse warming SCIE SCOPUS

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Title
A possible mechanism for El Nino-like warming in response to the future greenhouse warming
Author(s)
Kug, Jong-Seong; Sooraj, K. P.; Jin, Fei-Fei; Ham, Yoo-Geun; Kim, Daehyun
Alternative Author(s)
국종성
Publication Year
2011-08
Abstract
Using the climate change experiments generated for the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a possible mechanism for the El Nino-like warming in response to the greenhouse warming is suggested. From the coupled global climate model (CGCM) simulations with climate change scenario, it is found that the Bjerknes air-sea coupled process is a dominant contributor to the tropical Pacific response. However, it is revealed that most CGCMs commonly simulate the off-equatorial maximum of precipitation change. It is suggested here that the off-equatorial precipitation and the associated equatorial westerlies play a seeding role in triggering an El Nino-like warming response. Atmospheric GCM (AGCM) experiments show that even uniform sea-surface temperature (SST) warming leads to off-equatorial increase in precipitation which brings equatorial westerlies, implying that these non-uniform (off-equatorial) responses can play a seeding role for the El Nino-like warming pattern. Copyright (C) 2010 Royal Meteorological Society
ISSN
0899-8418
URI
https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/3833
DOI
10.1002/joc.2163
Bibliographic Citation
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY, v.31, no.10, pp.1567 - 1572, 2011
Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
Subject
TROPICAL PACIFIC; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; INCREASED CO2; OCEAN; TERMINATION; MODEL; EQUILIBRIUM; TRENDS; ENSO
Keywords
El Nino-like warming; global warming; climate change
Type
Article
Language
English
Document Type
Article
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