Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

A very likely weakening of Pacific Walker Circulation in constrained near-future projections

  • Mingna Wu,
  • Tianjun Zhou,
  • Chao Li,
  • Hongmei Li,
  • Xiaolong Chen,
  • Bo Wu,
  • Wenxia Zhang,
  • Lixia Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26693-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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How the Pacific Walker circulation (PWC) changes under climate change is not well understood. Here, the authors show that the strengthening of the PWC since 1979 is related to internal variability of the Pacific and use this as a constraint to show that it is likely to weaken in the next decades.