Western tropical Pacific multidecadal variability forced by the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Cheng Sun; Fred Kucharski; Jianping Li; Fei-Fei Jin; In-Sik Kang; Ruiqiang Ding

doi:10.1038/ncomms15998

Nature Communications (Jul 2017)

Western tropical Pacific multidecadal variability forced by the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Cheng Sun,
Fred Kucharski,
Jianping Li,
Fei-Fei Jin,
In-Sik Kang,
Ruiqiang Ding

Affiliations

Cheng Sun: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University
Fred Kucharski: Earth System Physics Section, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera, 11
Jianping Li: State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University
Fei-Fei Jin: Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Hawaii–Manoa
In-Sik Kang: Department of Meteorology, Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research, King Abdulaziz University
Ruiqiang Ding: State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15998
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The western tropical Pacific is a main source of heat and moisture for the global atmosphere, yet the mechanism for the multidecadal sea surface temperature variability in this region remains unknown. Here, the authors show that this variability is forced by the remote Atlantic multidecadal oscillation

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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