Expansion of the Hadley cell under global warming

By Jian Lu, Gabriel Vecchi, T. Reichler. 2007

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change

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In Atmospheric Science

1. A. Butler
2. William J. Randel
3. T. G. Shepherd
4. Jian Lu
5. D. Seidel
6. Gang Chen
7. L. Polvani
8. Tapio Schneider

In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Butler
2. William J. Randel
3. T. G. Shepherd
4. Jian Lu
5. D. Seidel
6. L. Polvani
7. Gang Chen
8. Tapio Schneider

Citations in the corpus

• Phase Speed Spectra and the Latitude of Surface Westerlies: Interannual Variability and Global Warming Trend (2008, background): “These annular mode trends under global warming are associated with a poleward shift of midlatitude storm tracks (Yin 2005), a rise in the tropopause height (Lorenz and DeWeaver 2007), and an expansion of the Hadley cell (Lu et al. 2007).”
• Recent widening of the tropical belt: Evidence from tropopause observations (2007, background): “Lu et al. [2007] show that 14 climate models project poleward expansion of the Hadley circulation of up to 1.5 latitude over the 21st century and that this expansion is correlated with increased extratropical tropopause height.”
• 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).”
• Robust skill of decadal climate predictions (2019, background): “Many of these changes in land precipitation appear to be part of large scale patterns extending over the ocean, including a northward shift of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) consistent with warm AMV(27,47,57,61,62) and an expansion of the Hadley circulation(63) which is expected ”
• Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “Increasing tropopause height is an observed fingerprint of climate change [Santer et al., 2003] and a likely contributor to poleward migration of storm tracks [Lu et al., 2007].”
• Small pelagic fish in the new millennium: A bottom-up view of global research effort (2020, neutral): “Although this hypothesis was challenged by projections from global climate models (Vecchi and Soden, 2007; Lu et al., 2007), these models poorly represent the regional wind forcing and upwelling (Gent et al.”
• Climate change impacts on wind energy potential in the European domain with a focus on the Black Sea (2017, background): “Therefore if climate change alters the large-scale flow (Lu et al., 2007; Mizuta, 2012) or local conditions such as stratification (Wharton and Lundquist, 2012) or surface roughness (Vautard et al.”
• The Hadley Circulation in Reanalyses: Climatology, Variability, and Change (2013, background): “This widening has been linked to increasing greenhouse gases (GHG) (Lu et al. 2007) and/or ozone depletion since 1979 (Kang et al. 2011; Polvani et al. 2011).”
• Width of the Hadley cell in simple and comprehensive general circulation models (2007, methodology): “This expansion is the same sign as the Hadley cell expansion with global warming identified in the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model data set [Lu et al., 2007] and in recent 2 of 5 observations [Fu et al., 2006].”