Weakening of tropical Pacific atmospheric circulation due to anthropogenic forcing

By Gabriel Vecchi, Brian J. Soden, Andrew T. Wittenberg, I. Held, A. Leetmaa, M. Harrison. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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3. Tapio Schneider
4. Richard P. Allan
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8. M. Previdi

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Citations in the corpus

• Warm Pool and Cold Tongue El Nino Events as Simulated by the GFDL 2.1 Coupled GCM (2010, background): “This is possibly because the equatorial total SST is not enough to generate precipitation (Vecchi et al. 2006; Lengaigne and Vecchi 2009).”
• Stratospheric geoengineering impacts on El Niño/Southern Oscillation (2015, background): “Vecchi et al. (2006) identified a weakening of the ascending branch of the Walker circulation over equatorial southeast Asia.”
• The eastward shift of the Walker Circulation in response to global warming and its relationship to ENSO variability (2014, methodology): “But several other studies found a weakening of the Walker Circulation over much longer periods (Vecchi et al. 2006; Power and Kociuba 2010; Yu and Zwiers 2010; Tokinaga et al. 2012a, b; DiNezio et al. 2013), consistent with the homogeneous warming mechanism mentioned in the introduction.”
• Physically Consistent Responses of the Global Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in Models and Observations (2014, positive): “…upon water vapor, climate models simulate a weakening of the tropical Walker circulation that is also evident in observations and simulations of the twentieth century (Vecchi et al. 2006), while decadal variability may cause temporary increases in the Walker circulation (Sohn et al. 2012).”
• Causes of climate change over the historical record (2019, background): “Furthermore, a weakening of the Pacific Walker circulation was suggested at a centennial scale since the mid-19 century, in line with model simulations (Vecchi et al., 2006).”
• Energetic Constraints on Precipitation Under Climate Change (2012, background): “There is considerable sensitivity of precipitation response to the data set and time period chosen (Quartly et al. 2007; Wang et al. 2008; John et al. 2009).”