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DOI	10.1175/JCLI-D-21-0648.1
	Persistent Discrepancies between Observed and Modeled Trends in the Tropical Pacific Ocean
	Seager, Richard; Henderson, Naomi; Cane, Mark
发表日期	2022
ISSN	0894-8755
EISSN	1520-0442
起始页码	4571
结束页码	4584
卷号	35 期号:14
英文摘要	The trends over recent decades in tropical Pacific sea surface and upper ocean temperature are examined in observations-based products, an ocean reanalysis and the latest models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase six and the Multimodel Large Ensembles Archive. Comparison is made using three metrics of sea surface temperature (SST) trend-the east-west and north-south SST gradients and a pattern correlation for the equatorial region-as well as change in thermocline depth. It is shown that the latest generation of models persist in not reproducing the observations-based SST trends as a response to radiative forcing and that the latter are at the far edge or beyond the range of modeled internal variability. The observed combination of thermocline shoaling and lack of warming in the equatorial cold tongue upwelling region is similarly at the extreme limit of modeled behavior. The persistence over the last century and a half of the observed trend toward an enhanced east-west SST gradient and, in four of five observed gridded datasets, to an enhanced equatorial north-south SST gradient, is also at the limit of model behavior. It is concluded that it is extremely unlikely that the observed trends are consistent with modeled internal variability. Instead, the results support the argument that the observed trends are a response to radiative forcing in which an enhanced east-west SST gradient and thermocline shoaling are key and that the latest generation of climate models continue to be unable to simulate this aspect of climate change.
英文关键词	Pacific Ocean; Tropics; Atmosphere-ocean interaction; Sea surface temperature; Thermocline; Climate change; Trends
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS类目	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000815998900010
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/280528
作者单位	Columbia University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Seager, Richard,Henderson, Naomi,Cane, Mark. Persistent Discrepancies between Observed and Modeled Trends in the Tropical Pacific Ocean[J],2022,35(14).
APA	Seager, Richard,Henderson, Naomi,&Cane, Mark.(2022).Persistent Discrepancies between Observed and Modeled Trends in the Tropical Pacific Ocean.JOURNAL OF CLIMATE,35(14).
MLA	Seager, Richard,et al."Persistent Discrepancies between Observed and Modeled Trends in the Tropical Pacific Ocean".JOURNAL OF CLIMATE 35.14(2022).