Regional Patterns of Sea Surface Temperature Change A Source of Uncertainty in Future Projections of Precipitation and Atmospheric Circulation

• Published in: Journal of climate Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 2482 - 2501
• Main Authors: Ma, Jian, Xie, Shang-Ping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA American Meteorological Society 15.04.2013
• Subjects: 21st century; Annual rainfall; Atmospheric circulation; Atmospheric circulation changes; Atmospheric models; Carbon dioxide; Circulation; Climate change; Climate models; Climatology. Bioclimatology. Climate change; Dipoles; Earth, ocean, space; Environmental impact; Equator; Exact sciences and technology; External geophysics; General circulation models; Global climate models; Global warming; Hadley circulation; Intercomparison; Investigations; Local precipitation; Marine; Meteorology; Ocean circulation; Oceans; Precipitation; Projection; Rain; Rainfall; Regions; Sea surface; Sea surface temperature; Simulation; Spreads; Surface temperature; Temperature changes; Temperature effects; Trade winds; Tropical climates; Variability; Walker circulation; Wind; Multimodel; General circulation models; atmospheric precipitation; Regional scope; climate warming; Climate models; Sea surface temperature; Hadley cell; Climate prediction; Walker circulation; global change; warming; atmospheric circulation; uncertainties; climate change

Precipitation change in response to global warming has profound impacts on environment for life but is highly uncertain. Effects of sea surface temperature (SST) warming on the response of rainfall and atmospheric overturning circulation are investigated using Coupled Model Intercomparison Project s...