Seamless Poleward Atmospheric Energy Transports and Implications for the Hadley Circulation

By Kevin E. Trenberth, D. Stepaniak. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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The Storm-Track Response to Idealized SST Perturbations in an Aquaplanet GCM (2008, background): “Trenberth and Stepaniak (2003) and Kim and Lee (2001), among others, also emphasize the role of the midlatitude eddies in driving the Hadley cell as part of a “seamless” transport of energy poleward from the equator.”
Earth's Global Energy Budget (2009, background): “Major recent advances in unders tand ing the energy budget have been provided by satellite data and globally gridded reanalyses (e.g., Trenberth et al. 2001; Trenberth and Stepaniak 2003a,b, 2004).”
The Annual Cycle of the Energy Budget. Part I: Global Mean and Land–Ocean Exchanges (2008, background): “…and kinetic energy transports combine and, in instances, mutually compensate to result in a seamless poleward transport of energy that belies the complexity of the Unauthenticated | Downloaded 07/23/22 09:11 AM UTC physical mechanisms of which it is composed (Trenberth and Stepaniak 2003a,b).”
The large‐scale energy budget of the Arctic (2007, methodology): “It also fosters comparisons with previous studies for this domain [e.g., Nakamura and Oort, 1988; Overland and Turet, 1994; Rogers et al., 2001; Trenberth and Stepaniak, 2003; Semmler et al., 2005].”
Climate Feedbacks and Their Implications for Poleward Energy Flux Changes in a Warming Climate (2011, background): “…of TOA energy surplus do not warm continuously while regions of energy deficit cool continuously; rather the atmosphere and oceans transport energy from surplus to deficit regions (e.g., Vonder Haar and Oort 1973; Trenberth and Solomon 1994; Trenberth and Caron 2001; Trenberth and Stepaniak 2003).”
Evaluation of AERONET precipitable water vapor versus microwave radiometry, GPS, and radiosondes at ARM sites (2014, background): “In the lower troposphere, condensation of water vapor into liquid provides latent heating which dominates the structure of tropospheric diabatic heating [Trenberth and Stepaniak, 2003a, 2003b].”
A consistent poleward shift of the storm tracks in simulations of 21st century climate (2005, methodology): “[13] A preliminary analysis of the energy budget, using the methods of Trenberth and Stepaniak [2003] , suggests that the poleward shift of baroclinicity is largely maintained by anomalous energy transports in the Ferrel cell, which shifts poleward in response to anomalous momentum fluxes in the st”
Storm track response to ocean fronts in a global high-resolution climate model (2014, background): “These eddies can also support low frequency events such as blocking (Hoskins 1983; Trenberth 1986), and act to transmit heat polewards as part of the Earth’s global energy balance (Trenberth and Caron 2001; Trenberth and Stepaniak 2003).”
WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES (2009, background): “In the present climate, this is about half of the total atmospheric energy flux in midlatitudes [Pierrehumbert, 2002; Trenberth and Stepaniak, 2003b], indicating a significant role for water vapor in extratropical dynamics.”