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DOI	10.1029/2019MS001753
	Imagining Simpler Worlds to Understand the Complexity of Our Own
	Gerber E.P.; DallaSanta K.; Gupta A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	19422466
起始页码	2862
结束页码	2867
卷号	11 期号:9
英文摘要	The atmospheric circulation response to global warming is important for accurate prediction of climate change on regional scales. For the midlatitudes, shifts in the extratropical jet streams have important consequences for precipitation, blocking, and extreme events. It has proven to be a challenge, however, to predict. For example, the North Atlantic jet stream plays a vital role in the climate of eastern North America and Europe; in the last intercomparison of state-of-the-art climate models, the models did not even agree on the sign of its wintertime response to global warming. Perhaps this should not come as a surprise, as we also lack a comprehensive theory for the impact of warming on the midlatitude circulation. In a recent study, Tan et al. (2019, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018MS001492) constructed models of simpler atmospheres to explore the response of the midlatitude jet to global warming. Their idealized atmospheres highlight the difficulty of developing a comprehensive theory for the midlatitude circulation but also provide pathways to improve models of Earth's atmosphere. Models of simpler atmospheres allow one to isolate the impact of specific atmospheric processes and connect theoretical understanding with comprehensive climate prediction systems. Such models can also be used to explore very different atmospheric regimes, from Earth's past to distant planets. © 2019. The Authors.
语种	英语
来源期刊	Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/156859
作者单位	Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York, NY, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gerber E.P.,DallaSanta K.,Gupta A.. Imagining Simpler Worlds to Understand the Complexity of Our Own[J],2019,11(9).
APA	Gerber E.P.,DallaSanta K.,&Gupta A..(2019).Imagining Simpler Worlds to Understand the Complexity of Our Own.Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems,11(9).
MLA	Gerber E.P.,et al."Imagining Simpler Worlds to Understand the Complexity of Our Own".Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11.9(2019).