Recent widening of the tropical belt: Evidence from tropopause observations

By D. Seidel, William J. Randel. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. William J. Randel
2. T. Birner
3. P. O’Gorman
4. M. Hegglin
5. Q. Fu
6. L. Pan
7. Andrew Gettelman
8. A. Butler

In Global and Planetary Change

1. William J. Randel
2. P. O’Gorman
3. T. Birner
4. Q. Fu
5. L. Pan
6. M. Hegglin
7. Andrew Gettelman
8. A. Butler

Citations in the corpus

• 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).”
• Seasonal cycle of precipitation over major river basins in South and Southeast Asia: a review of the CMIP5 climate models data for present climate and future climate projections (2015, background): “, 2013; Lee and Wang, 2014) and overall widening of the tropical zone (Fu 2006; Seidel and Randel, 2007).”
• 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].”
• THE EXTRATROPICAL UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE (2011, background): “Evidence for the broadening of the tropics comes from changes in subtropical tropopause height [Seidel and Randel, 2007; Birner, 2010b] ozone [Hudson et al.”
• Cause of the widening of the tropical belt since 1958 (2008, unknown): “A similar widening of the tropics was found based on the height of the thermal tropopause from radiosonde data [Seidel and Randel, 2007; Reichler and Held, 2005] and NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses [Reichler and Held, 2005].”
• Observed poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation since 1979 (2007, methodology): “Through an analysis of tropopause heights in the subtropics using radiosonde measurements and reanalysis data, Seidel and Randel (2007)1 found an expansion of the tropical belt for about 4.25 degree latitudes during 1979–2005.”