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 …

Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects

S Power, M Lengaigne, A Capotondi, M Khodri… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Tropical Pacific decadal climate variability and change (TPDV) affects the
global climate system, extreme weather events, agricultural production, streamflow, marine …

Near-term tropical cyclone risk and coupled Earth system model biases

AH Sobel, CY Lee, SG Bowen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Most current climate models predict that the equatorial Pacific will evolve under greenhouse
gas–induced warming to a more El Niño-like state over the next several decades, with a …

On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories

S Lee, M L'Heureux, AT Wittenberg, R Seager… - Npj Climate and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the zonal gradients of sea surface temperature (SST) across the
equatorial Pacific have major consequences for global climate. Therefore, accurate future …

Contribution of anthropogenic aerosols to persistent La Niña-like conditions in the early 21st century

YT Hwang, SP **e, PJ Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The discrepancy between the observed lack of surface warming in the eastern equatorial
Pacific and climate model projections of an El Niño-like warming pattern confronts the …

The Antarctic ozone hole and the pattern effect on climate sensitivity

DL Hartmann - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Since about 1980, the tropical Pacific has been anomalously cold, while the broader tropics
have warmed. This has caused anomalous weather in midlatitudes as well as a reduction in …

Eastern equatorial Pacific warming delayed by aerosols and thermostat response to CO2 increase

UK Heede, AV Fedorov - Nature Climate Change, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding the tropical Pacific response to global warming remains challenging. Here
we use a range of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 greenhouse warming …

Disentangling the mechanisms of equatorial Pacific climate change

SM Kang, Y Shin, H Kim, SP **e, S Hu - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Most state-of-art models project a reduced equatorial Pacific east-west temperature gradient
and a weakened Walker circulation under global warming. However, the causes of this …

Two-way teleconnections between the Southern Ocean and the tropical Pacific via a dynamic feedback

Y Dong, KC Armour, DS Battisti… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Despite substantial global mean warming, surface cooling has occurred in both the tropical
eastern Pacific Ocean and the Southern Ocean over the past 40 years, influencing both …

Simulating miocene warmth: insights from an opportunistic multi‐model ensemble (MioMIP1)

NJ Burls, CD Bradshaw, AM De Boer… - Paleoceanography …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch, spanning 23.03–5.33 Ma, was a dynamic climate of sustained,
polar amplified warmth. Miocene atmospheric CO2 concentrations are typically …