South Pacific Convergence Zone dynamics, variability and impacts in a changing climate

JR Brown, M Lengaigne, BR Lintner… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is a diagonal band of intense rainfall
and deep atmospheric convection extending from the equator to the subtropical South …

The S outhwest P acific O cean circulation and climate experiment (SPICE)

A Ganachaud, S Cravatte, A Melet… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment (SPICE) is an
international research program under the auspices of CLIVAR. The key objectives are to …

Impact of atmospheric blocking on South America in austral summer

RR Rodrigues, T Woollings - Journal of Climate, 2017 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study investigates atmospheric blocking over eastern South America in austral summer
for the period of 1979–2014. The results show that blocking over this area is a consequence …

How do tropical temperate troughs form and develop over southern Africa?

C Macron, B Pohl, Y Richard, M Bessafi - Journal of Climate, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
This paper aims at separating the respective influences of tropical and midlatitude variability
on the development and life cycle of tropical temperate troughs (TTTs) over southern Africa …

A global climatology of tropical moisture exports

P Knippertz, H Wernli, G Gläser - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
In a recent paper, a climatology of tropical moisture exports (TMEs) to the Northern
Hemisphere (NH) was constructed on the basis of 7-day forward trajectories, started daily …

A southwest Pacific tropical cyclone climatology and linkages to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation

HJ Diamond, AM Lorrey, JA Renwick - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The new South Pacific Enhanced Archive for Tropical Cyclones (SPEArTC) dataset
provides an opportunity to develop a more complete climatology of tropical cyclones (TCs) in …

Nonlinear precipitation response to El Niño and global warming in the Indo-Pacific

CTY Chung, SB Power, JM Arblaster, HA Rashid… - Climate Dynamics, 2014 - Springer
Precipitation changes over the Indo-Pacific during El Niño events are studied using an
Atmospheric General Circulation Model forced with sea-surface temperature (SST) …

A multiscale framework for the origin and variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone

AJ Matthews - Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The diagonal South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is the major climatological
precipitation feature over the Pacific region during the Northern Hemisphere winter …