Present-day warm pool constrains future tropical precipitation

In-Hong Park; Sang-Wook Yeh; Seung-Ki Min; Yoo-Geun Ham; Ben P. Kirtman

doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00620-5

Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Present-day warm pool constrains future tropical precipitation

In-Hong Park,
Sang-Wook Yeh,
Seung-Ki Min,
Yoo-Geun Ham,
Ben P. Kirtman

Affiliations

In-Hong Park: Department of Marine Science and Convergence Engineering, Hanyang University, ERICA
Sang-Wook Yeh: Department of Marine Science and Convergence Engineering, Hanyang University, ERICA
Seung-Ki Min: Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology
Yoo-Geun Ham: Department of Oceanography, Chonnam National University
Ben P. Kirtman: Rosenstiel School for Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00620-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Climate models with a large present-day Indo-Pacific warm pool project a weak Walker circulation and associated intense future rainfall in the central-to-eastern tropical Pacific, suggests an analysis of simulations with a suite of climate models.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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