Changing El Niño–Southern oscillation in a warming climate

W Cai, A Santoso, M Collins, B Dewitte… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Originating in the equatorial Pacific, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has highly
consequential global impacts, motivating the need to understand its responses to …

Tropical teleconnection impacts on Antarctic climate changes

X Li, W Cai, GA Meehl, D Chen, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Over the modern satellite era, substantial climatic changes have been observed in the
Antarctic, including atmospheric and oceanic warming, ice sheet thinning and a general …

Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century

G Li, L Cheng, J Zhu, KE Trenberth, ME Mann… - Nature Climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Seawater generally forms stratified layers with lighter waters near the surface and denser
waters at greater depth. This stable configuration acts as a barrier to water mixing that …

Human influence on the climate system (Chapter 3)

V Eyring, NP Gillett, KM Achuta Rao, R Barimalala… - 2021‏ - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The AR5 concluded that human influence on the climate system is clear, evident from
increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing …

Initialized Earth System prediction from subseasonal to decadal timescales

GA Meehl, JH Richter, H Teng, A Capotondi… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Abstract Initialized Earth System predictions are made by starting a numerical prediction
model in a state as consistent as possible to observations and running it forward in time for …

Mechanisms of tropical Pacific decadal variability

A Capotondi, S McGregor, MJ McPhaden… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Naturally occurring tropical Pacific variations at timescales of 7–70 years—tropical Pacific
decadal variability (TPDV)—describe basin-scale sea surface temperature (SST), sea-level …

Pantropical climate interactions

W Cai, L Wu, M Lengaigne, T Li, S McGregor, JS Kug… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropics have a profound influence on
the climate system. El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is spawned in the tropical …

A review of the role of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in Atlantic multidecadal variability and associated climate impacts

R Zhang, R Sutton, G Danabasoglu… - Reviews of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
By synthesizing recent studies employing a wide range of approaches (modern
observations, paleo reconstructions, and climate model simulations), this paper provides a …

Three-ocean interactions and climate variability: a review and perspective

C Wang - Climate Dynamics, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract Interactions among the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans through ocean–
atmosphere coupling can initiate and/or modulate climate variability. The Pacific Ocean is …

Interbasin and interhemispheric impacts of a collapsed Atlantic Overturning Circulation

B Orihuela-Pinto, MH England, AS Taschetto - Nature Climate Change, 2022‏ - nature.com
Climate projections suggest a weakening or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation (AMOC) under global warming, with evidence that a slowdown is already …