Tropical Climate Regimes and Global Climate Sensitivity in a Simple Setting Export

@article{citeulike:589465, abstract = {Multiple tropical climate regimes are found in an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) coupled to a global slab ocean when the model is forced by different values of globally uniform insolation. Even in this simple setting, convection organizes into an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) solely due to the effect of planetary rotation, as was found in Kirtman and Schneider, for a single value of insolation. Here the response to a range of insolation values is explored, and surprisingly, multiple climate regimes characterized by radically different ITCZ structures are found. In order from the coldest to warmest climates, these are a symmetric double ITCZ, a near-symmetric equatorial ITCZ, a transient asymmetric ITCZ, and a stable, strongly asymmetric ITCZ.}, author = {Barsugli, Joseph and Shin, Sang-Ik and Sardeshmukh, Prashant D.}, citeulike-article-id = {589465}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3404.1}, doi = {10.1175/JAS3404.1}, journal = {Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences}, keywords = {aquaplanet, convection}, number = {4}, pages = {1226--1240}, posted-at = {2006-04-17 21:28:44}, priority = {2}, title = {Tropical Climate Regimes and Global Climate Sensitivity in a Simple Setting}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3404.1}, volume = {62}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:589465 L3 - citeulike-article-id:589465 N2 - Multiple tropical climate regimes are found in an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) coupled to a global slab ocean when the model is forced by different values of globally uniform insolation. Even in this simple setting, convection organizes into an intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) solely due to the effect of planetary rotation, as was found in Kirtman and Schneider, for a single value of insolation. Here the response to a range of insolation values is explored, and surprisingly, multiple climate regimes characterized by radically different ITCZ structures are found. In order from the coldest to warmest climates, these are a symmetric double ITCZ, a near-symmetric equatorial ITCZ, a transient asymmetric ITCZ, and a stable, strongly asymmetric ITCZ. IS - 4 JF - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences EP - 1240 TI - Tropical Climate Regimes and Global Climate Sensitivity in a Simple Setting VL - 62 SP - 1226 KW - aquaplanet KW - convection AU - Barsugli, Joseph AU - Shin, Sang-Ik AU - Sardeshmukh, Prashant PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3404.1 ER -