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| Author | Talento, Stefanie Barreiro, Marcelo |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This study investigates the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) response to extratropical thermal forcing applied to an atmospheric general circulation model coupled to slab ocean and land models. We focus on the relative roles of the atmosphere, tropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and continental surface temperatures in the ITCZ response to the imposed forcing. The forcing consists of cooling in one hemisphere and warming in the other poleward of 40°, with zero global average. Three sets of experiments are performed: in the first the slab ocean and land models are applied globally; in the second the tropical SSTs are kept fixed while the slab land model is applied globally; in the third, in addition, surface temperatures over Africa are kept fixed. Realistic boundary surface conditions are used. We find that the ITCZ shifts towards the warmer hemisphere and that the stronger the forcing, the larger the shift. When the constraint of fixed tropical SST is imposed we find that the ITCZ response is strongly weakened, but it is still not negligible in particular over the Atlantic Ocean and Africa where the precipitation anomalies are of the order of 20 and 60 %, respectively, of the magnitude obtained without the SST restriction. Finally, when the constraint of the African surface temperature is incorporated we find that the ITCZ response completely vanishes, indicating that the ITCZ response to the extratropical forcing is not possible just trough purely atmospheric processes, but needs the involvement of either the tropical SST or the continental surface temperatures. The clear-sky longwave radiation feedback is highlighted as the main physical mechanism operating behind the land-based extratropical to tropical communication. |
| Starting Page | 1091 |
| Ending Page | 1110 |
| Page Count | 20 |
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| ISSN | 09307575 |
| Journal | Climate Dynamics |
| Volume Number | 47 |
| Issue Number | 3-4 |
| e-ISSN | 14320894 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publisher Date | 2015-11-04 |
| Publisher Place | Berlin, Heidelberg |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | ITCZ shift Extratropical forcing Tropical sea surface temperatures Land surface temperature Geophysics/Geodesy Climatology Oceanography |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Atmospheric Science |
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