61. Tropical tropospheric warming revisited: Part 3
Upper tropospheric warming trends in AMIP (prescribed sea surface temperature) simulations at 300mb over the period 1984-2008 averaged from 20S-20N, in the CMIP5 archive. Red and blue correspond to...
View Article62. Poleward atmospheric energy transport
Upper panel: annual mean northward atmospheric energy transport as a function of latitude averaged over the control simulations in CMIP3. The total flux is shown as well as the decomposition into the...
View Article63. How unusual is the recent evolution of the tropical Pacific
A proxy for the strength of the trade winds in the North Pacific: nitrogen isotope records from three sediment cores off the west coast of North America (blue = 33oN, green =25oN , red = 24oN). More...
View Article64. Disequilibrium and the AMOC
The strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) at 26N , in units of Sverdrups (106 m3/s), plotted against the ratio of the Transient Climate Response to the Equilibrium...
View Article65. Small Earth, deep atmosphere, and hypohydrostatic models
A key problem in atmospheric modeling is the large separation in horizontal scales between the circulations that contain the bulk of the kinetic energy and dominate the horizontal transport of heat,...
View Article66. Clouds are hard
A measure of cloud feedback (vertical axis) plotted against a property of the sub-grid closure for moist convection (horizontal axis) for 3 comprehensive atmospheric models developed at GFDL (red dots)...
View Article67. More on tropical cyclones and the ITCZ in aquaplanet models
Ttropical cyclone statistics in the global aquaplanet model of Ballinger et al 2015 varying the strength of the surface temperature gradient in the tropics. a) sea surface temperatures; b)...
View Article68. Superrotation, idealized models, and GCMs
The average around the equator of the eastward wind in the upper tropospheric layer of the idealized atmospheric model of Suarez and Duffy 1992, for several different values of the strength of an...
View Article69. A modest proposal regarding TCR
The radative forcing (left) and global mean temperature response (right) using a simple GCM emulator, for the historical CO2 forcing (red) and for the linearly increasing forcing consistent with the...
View Article70. Spherical rotating radiative-convective equilibrium
Snapshots of near surface wind speed in simulations of spherical rotating radiative convective equilibrium, as described in Merlis et al 2016. A full hemisphere is shown, the outer boundary being...
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