Externally Forced and Internally Generated Decadal Climate Variability Associated with the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation

• Published in: Journal of climate Vol. 26; no. 18; pp. 7298 - 7310
• Main Authors: Meehl, Gerald A., Hu, Aixue, Arblaster, Julie M., Fasullo, John, Trenberth, Kevin E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA American Meteorological Society 15.09.2013
• Subjects: Air temperature; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Atmospherics; Bottom water; Climate; Climate change; Climate models; Climate system; Climate variability; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Communities; Coupled models; Decadal variability; Decades; Earth, ocean, space; Enthalpy; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; Global climate models; Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Heat; Marine; Meteorology; Modeling; Oceanic climates; Oceans; Oscillations; Pacific decadal oscillation; Physics of the oceans; Sea-air exchange processes; Surface temperature; Trends; Upper ocean; Coupled model; Atmospheric temperature; General circulation models; Interdecadal Pacific oscillation; Decadal variation; Surface temperature; climate variability; Climate models; Forcing; ocean-atmosphere interaction; greenhouse gas

Globally averaged surface air temperatures in some decades show rapid increases (accelerated warming decades), and in other decades there is no warming trend (hiatus decades). A previous study showed that the net energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere of about 1 W m−2is associated with greate...