Abrupt changes in early Holocene tropical sea surface temperature derived from coral records

Nature ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 385 (6618) ◽  
pp. 705-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Warren Beck ◽  
Jacques Récy ◽  
Fred Taylor ◽  
R. Lawrence Edwards ◽  
Guy Cabioch
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Abrupt Changes ◽  
Tropical Sea

scholarly journals Relationships between tropical sea surface temperature and top-of-atmosphere radiation

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin E. Trenberth ◽  
John T. Fasullo ◽  
Chris O'Dell ◽  
Takmeng Wong
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Tropical Sea

scholarly journals Tropical sea-surface temperature reconstruction for the early Paleogene using Mg/Ca ratios of planktonic foraminifera

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. n/a-n/a ◽  
Author(s):  
Aradhna K. Tripati ◽  
Margaret L. Delaney ◽  
James C. Zachos ◽  
Linda D. Anderson ◽  
Daniel C. Kelly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Planktonic Foraminifera ◽  
Temperature Reconstruction ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Tropical Sea ◽  
Early Paleogene

Contrasting Responses of the Hadley Circulation to Equatorially Asymmetric and Symmetric Meridional Sea Surface Temperature Structures

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (24) ◽  
pp. 8949-8963 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Feng ◽  
Jianping Li ◽  
Feifei Jin ◽  
Zhengyu Liu ◽  
Xing Nan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Hadley Circulation ◽  
Temporal Variations ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Amplitude Variation ◽  
Asymmetric Mode ◽  
Tropical Sea

Abstract The impacts of different meridional structures of tropical sea surface temperature (SST) on the Hadley circulation (HC) in the annual mean are investigated during the period 1948–2013. By decomposing the variations in SST and the HC into two components—that is, the equatorially asymmetric (SEA for SST, and HEA for HC) and the equatorially symmetric (SES for SST, and HES for HC) parts—it is shown that the long-term variability in SEA and SES captures well the temporal variations in equatorially asymmetric and symmetric variations in SST. The variation in HEA is closely linked to that of SEA, and the variation in HES is connected with that of SES. However, the response of HEA to a given amplitude variation in SEA is stronger (by ~5 times) than that of HES to the same amplitude variation in SES. This point is further verified by theoretical and numerical models, indicating that the meridional structure of SST plays a crucial role in determining the anomalies in HC. This result may explain why the principal mode of HC is dominated by an equatorially asymmetric mode in its long-term variability.

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