Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate

By Q. Fu, William J. Randel, T. Reichler, D. Seidel. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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Spatial Variability of Sea Level Rise in Twenty-First Century Projections (2010, background): “In addition, the Hadley circulation expands toward the poles in response to a warming climate (Seidel et al. 2008).”
Cause of the widening of the tropical belt since 1958 (2008, background): “…aspects of the tropical expansion resemble future climate projections from coupled models forced by increasing greenhouse gases [Lu et al., 2007; Seidel et al., 2008], although the observed widening appears to have occurred faster than that simulated by the climate models [Johanson and Fu,…”
Assessment of global warming on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain). Trends in minimum, maximum and mean temperatures since 1944 (2012, background): “(2004) hypothesized that the lower limit of this cloud layer could be losing altitude in summer, and the recently discovered poleward expansion of the Hadley cell associated with the constancy and frequency of the northeast trade-winds (Hu and Fu 2007; Seidel et al. 2008) could affect wind movement ”
Response of the large‐scale structure of the atmosphere to global warming (2015, background): “Various studies (e.g. Hu and Fu, 2007; Seidel and Randel, 2007), and others as reviewed by Seidel et al. (2008), have found that the Hadley Cell has, in fact, expanded to a greater or lesser extent over the past few decades – indeed from tropopause observations Seidel and Randel (2007) suggest that…”
The Hadley Circulation in Reanalyses: Climatology, Variability, and Change (2013, background): “Over recent years, attention has been focused on the expansion and strengthening of the HC in the context of a changing climate, with potentially important implications for the surrounding climatic zones (Seidel et al. 2008; Reichler 2009).”
THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “…of the tropics comes from changes in subtropical tropopause height [ Seidel and Randel , 2007; Birner , 2010b] ozone [ Hudson et al. , 2006], tropo-spheric circulation [ Hu and Fu , 2007], temperatures [ Fu et al. , 2006], and the separation between the subtropical jets [ Seidel et al. , 2008].”
WATER VAPOR AND THE DYNAMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGES (2009, background): “The Hadley circulation appears to have widened in recent decades [Hu and Fu, 2007; Seidel and Randel, 2007; Seidel et al., 2008; Johanson and Fu, 2009], and it also widens, in the annual mean, as surface temperatures increase in many simulations of climate change scenarios [Lu et al., 2007].”
Climate‐related, decadal‐scale assemblage changes of seagrass‐associated fishes in the northern Gulf of Mexico (2010, background): “Recently, Seidel et al. (2007) reviewed five different climate models (based on factors such as ozone concentration and tropopause height) and, over the last three decades, reported tropical belt widening in the northern hemisphere that ranged between 21 and 81 latitude, depending on the model.”
Narrowing of the ITCZ in a warming climate: Physical mechanisms (2016, background): “The widening of the Hadley circulation with global warming has also been intensively investigated [e.g., Lu et al., 2007; Seidel et al., 2008; Waugh et al., 2015, 2008; Levine and Schneider, 2015].”
The Evolution of Climate Sensitivity and Climate Feedbacks in the Community Atmosphere Model (2012, methodology): “The poleward shift in the 2 3 CO2 simulations is consistent with observations (Seidel et al. 2008) and other model simulations (Son et al. 2009) and is about the same in both CAM4 and CAM5, but the effect on clouds is larger in CAM5. Notably, these changes are not strongly due to the subtropical mar”
The Steady-State Atmospheric Circulation Response to Climate Change–like Thermal Forcings in a Simple General Circulation Model (2010, background): “3c), a phenomenon also noted in observations and numerical simulations (Fu et al. 2006; Seidel and Randel 2007; Frierson et al. 2007; Lu et al. 2007, 2008; Seidel et al. 2008).”
Latitudinal shifts in coral reef fishes: why some species do and others do not shift (2014, background): “However, large-scale changes in ocean temperature are also taking place at low latitudes, characterized by a widening of the tropical belt (Seidel et al. 2008; Lu et al. 2009).”
Impact of stratospheric ozone on Southern Hemisphere circulation change: A multimodel assessment (2010, background): “…side of the climatological jet, which is often described as a positive trend in the annular modes [ Thompson et al. , 2000; Chen and Held , 2007], and the poleward expansion (or widening) of the Hadley cell [ Fu et al. , 2006; Hu and Fu , 2007; Seidel et al. , 2008; Johanson and Fu , 2009].”
Local partitioning of the overturning circulation in the tropics and the connection to the Hadley and Walker circulations (2014, background): “…position and strength [e.g., Quan et al., 2004; Mitas and Clement, 2005; Zhao and Moore, 2008; Hu and Fu, 2007; Stachnik and Schumacher, 2011], including possible changes under enhanced greenhouse conditions [e.g., Lu et al., 2007; Seidel et al., 2008; Gastineau et al., 2009; Kang and Lu, 2012].”