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DOI | 10.1002/2017GL074377 |
Intermodel spread of the double-ITCZ bias in coupled GCMs tied to land surface temperature in AMIP GCMs | |
Zhou, Wenyu; Xie, Shang-Ping | |
2017-08-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS |
ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 44期号:15 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Global climate models (GCMs) have long suffered from biases of excessive tropical precipitation in the Southern Hemisphere (SH). The severity of the double-Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) bias, defined here as the interhemispheric difference in zonal mean tropical precipitation, varies strongly among models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) ensemble. Models with a more severe double-ITCZ bias feature warmer tropical sea surface temperature (SST) in the SH, coupled with weaker southeast trades. While previous studies focus on coupled ocean-atmosphere interactions, here we show that the intermodel spread in the severity of the double-ITCZ bias is closely related to land surface temperature biases, which can be further traced back to those in the Atmosphere Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) simulations. By perturbing land temperature in models, we demonstrate that cooler land can indeed lead to a more severe double-ITCZ bias by inducing the above coupled SST-trade wind pattern in the tropics. The response to land temperature can be consistently explained from both the dynamic and energetic perspectives. Although this intermodel spread from the land temperature variation does not account for the ensemble model mean double-ITCZ bias, identifying the land temperature effect provides insights into simulating a realistic ITCZ for the right reasons. Plain Language Summary As our main tool to understand large-scale climate dynamics, global climate models (GCMs) suffer from systematic bias in their simulated tropical precipitation distribution. Much more precipitation falls in the South Hemisphere compared to observations. Such bias has global consequences and persists in GCMs for the past two decades with its source remaining obscure. While previous studies focus on atmosphere-ocean interactions, here we reveal that land temperature plays an important role in shaping tropical climate including the precipitation distribution. This previously overlooked mechanism is demonstrated through both intermodel analysis of GCMs from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and climate simulations with perturbed land temperature. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000408379000047 |
WOS关键词 | INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE ; GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODELS ; SEASONAL CYCLE ; CLIMATE MODELS ; TROPICAL PACIFIC ; EASTERN PACIFIC ; SOUTHERN-OCEAN ; HEAT-TRANSPORT ; IMPACTS ; CMIP5 |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/28221 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA 92103 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhou, Wenyu,Xie, Shang-Ping. Intermodel spread of the double-ITCZ bias in coupled GCMs tied to land surface temperature in AMIP GCMs[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2017,44(15). |
APA | Zhou, Wenyu,&Xie, Shang-Ping.(2017).Intermodel spread of the double-ITCZ bias in coupled GCMs tied to land surface temperature in AMIP GCMs.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,44(15). |
MLA | Zhou, Wenyu,et al."Intermodel spread of the double-ITCZ bias in coupled GCMs tied to land surface temperature in AMIP GCMs".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 44.15(2017). |
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