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DOI | 10.1007/s00382-016-3415-x |
Impact of tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperature biases on the simulated atmospheric circulation and precipitation over the Atlantic region: An ECHAM6 model study | |
Eichhorn, Astrid1; Bader, Juergen1,2,3 | |
2017-09-01 | |
发表期刊 | CLIMATE DYNAMICS
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ISSN | 0930-7575 |
EISSN | 1432-0894 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 49 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Germany; Norway |
英文摘要 | As many coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models, the coupled Earth System Model developed at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology suffers from severe sea-surface temperature (SST) biases in the tropical Atlantic. We performed a set of SST sensitivity experiments with its atmospheric model component ECHAM6 to understand the impact of tropical Atlantic SST biases on atmospheric circulation and precipitation. The model was forced by a climatology of observed global SSTs to focus on simulated seasonal and annual mean state climate. Through the superposition of varying tropical Atlantic bias patterns extracted from the MPI-ESM on top of the control field, this study investigates the relevance of the seasonal variation and spatial structure of tropical Atlantic biases for the simulated response. Results show that the position and structure of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) across the Atlantic is significantly affected, exhibiting a dynamically forced shift of annual mean precipitation maximum to the east of the Atlantic basin as well as a southward shift of the oceanic rain belt. The SST-induced changes in the ITCZ in turn affect seasonal rainfall over adjacent continents. However not only the ITCZ position but also other effects arising from biases in tropical Atlantic SSTs, e.g. variations in the wind field, change the simulation of precipitation over land. The seasonal variation and spatial pattern of tropical Atlantic SST biases turns out to be crucial for the simulated atmospheric response and is essential for analyzing the contribution of SST biases to coupled model mean state biases. Our experiments show that MPI-ESM mean-state biases in the Atlantic sector are mainly driven by SST biases in the tropical Atlantic while teleconnections from other basins seem to play a minor role. |
英文关键词 | SST bias Tropical Atlantic ITCZ ECHAM6 Warmer-get-wetter Tropical overturning circulations |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000408718200032 |
WOS关键词 | SST ; CLIMATOLOGY ; RAINFALL ; CYCLE |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/35785 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Max Planck Inst Meteorol, Bundesstr 53, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany; 2.Uni Res, Uni Climate, N-5007 Bergen, Norway; 3.Bjerknes Ctr Climate Res, N-5007 Bergen, Norway |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Eichhorn, Astrid,Bader, Juergen. Impact of tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperature biases on the simulated atmospheric circulation and precipitation over the Atlantic region: An ECHAM6 model study[J]. CLIMATE DYNAMICS,2017,49. |
APA | Eichhorn, Astrid,&Bader, Juergen.(2017).Impact of tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperature biases on the simulated atmospheric circulation and precipitation over the Atlantic region: An ECHAM6 model study.CLIMATE DYNAMICS,49. |
MLA | Eichhorn, Astrid,et al."Impact of tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperature biases on the simulated atmospheric circulation and precipitation over the Atlantic region: An ECHAM6 model study".CLIMATE DYNAMICS 49(2017). |
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