Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Stabilised frequency of extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole under 1.5 °C warming

  • Wenju Cai,
  • Guojian Wang,
  • Bolan Gan,
  • Lixin Wu,
  • Agus Santoso,
  • Xiaopei Lin,
  • Zhaohui Chen,
  • Fan Jia,
  • Toshio Yamagata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03789-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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It is unclear how extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole will respond to 1.5 °C of warming. Here the authors show that the frequency of these events increases linearly with warming, doubling at 1.5 °C from the pre-industrial level, but plateaus thereafter.