The Hadley circulation in a changing climate

P Lionello, R D'Agostino, D Ferreira… - Annals of the New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Hadley circulation (HC) is a global‐scale atmospheric feature with air descending in the
subtropics and ascending in the tropics, which plays a fundamental role in Earth's climate …

Recent tropical expansion: natural variability or forced response?

KM Grise, SM Davis, IR Simpson, DW Waugh… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Previous studies have documented a poleward shift in the subsiding branches of Earth's
Hadley circulation since 1979 but have disagreed on the causes of these observed changes …

The projected poleward shift of tropical cyclogenesis at a global scale under climate change in MRI‐AGCM3. 2H

X Cao, M Watanabe, R Wu, W Chen… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Future climate projections suggest a poleward shift of the maximum intensity of tropical
cyclones (TCs) over the western North Pacific. However, the global nature of the latitudinal …

Strengthened ENSO amplitude contributed to regime shift in the Hadley circulation

J Feng, S Wang, J Li - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the variability in the Hadley circulation (HC) changes is crucial for
understanding ocean‐atmosphere interactions. In this study, the variability in the boreal …

Revisiting the physical processes controlling the tropical atmospheric circulation changes during the Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period

K Zhang, Y Sun, Z Zhang, C Stepanek, R Feng… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (MPWP; 3.0–3.3 Ma), a warm geological period
about three million years ago, has been deemed as a good past analog for understanding …

Investigating the role of tropical and extratropical waves in the Hadley circulation via present‐day Earth‐like to globally uniform sea‐surface temperature forcing

ABS Thakur, J Sukhatme… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The tropical overturning circulation is examined in a moist aquaplanet general circulation
model forced using a non‐interactive sea‐surface temperature (SST) distribution that varies …