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|a Recent intensification of wind-driven circulation in the Pacific and the ongoing warming hiatus |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b Macmillan Publishers Limited, |c 2014-02. |
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|a Nature Climate Change. |
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|a Despite ongoing increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, the Earth’s global average surface air temperature has remained
more or less steady since 2001. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed to account for this slowdown in surface warming.
A key component of the global hiatus that has been identified is cool eastern Pacific sea surface temperature, but it is unclear
how the ocean has remained relatively cool there in spite of ongoing increases in radiative forcing. Here we show that a
pronounced strengthening in Pacific trade winds over the past two decades—unprecedented in observations/reanalysis data
and not captured by climate models—is sufficient to account for the cooling of the tropical Pacific and a substantial slowdown
in surface warming through increased subsurface ocean heat uptake. The extra uptake has come about through increased
subduction in the Pacific shallow overturning cells, enhancing heat convergence in the equatorial thermocline. At the same
time, the accelerated trade winds have increased equatorial upwelling in the central and eastern Pacific, lowering sea surface
temperature there, which drives further cooling in other regions. The net effect of these anomalous winds is a cooling in
the 2012 global average surface air temperature of 0.1–0.2 |
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|a Surface temperature of the earth. |
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