The influence of Atlantic variability on Asian summer climate is sensitive to the pattern of the sea surface temperature anomaly

Ratna, Satyaban B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8780-8165, Osborn, Timothy J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8425-6799, Joshi, Manoj ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2948-2811 and Luterbacher, Jürg (2020) The influence of Atlantic variability on Asian summer climate is sensitive to the pattern of the sea surface temperature anomaly. Journal of Climate, 33 (17). 7567–7590. ISSN 0894-8755

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Abstract

We simulate the response of Asian summer climate to Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO)-like sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies using an intermediate-complexity general circulation model (IGCM4). Experiments are performed with seven individualAMOSST anomalies obtained from CMIP5/PMIP3 global climate models as well as their multimodel mean, globally and over the North Atlantic Ocean only, for both the positive and negative phases of the AMO. During the positive (warm) AMO phase, a Rossby wave train propagates eastward, causing a high pressure and warm and dry surface anomalies over eastern China and Japan. During the negative (cool) phase of the AMO, the midlatitude Rossby wave train is less robust, but the model does simulate a warm and dry South Asian monsoon, associated with the movement of the intertropical convergence zone in the tropical Atlantic. The circulation response and associated temperature and precipitation anomalies are sensitive to the choice of AMO SST anomaly pattern. A comparison between global SST and North Atlantic SST perturbation experiments indicates that East Asian climate anomalies are forced from the North Atlantic region, whereas South Asian climate anomalies are more strongly affected by the AMO-related SST anomalies outside the North Atlantic region. Experiments conducted with different amplitudes of negative and positiveAMOanomalies show that the temperature response is linear with respect to SST anomaly but the precipitation response is nonlinear.

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Additional Information: Data Availability Statement. The composite mean AMO SST patterns and the model-simulated data used for this manuscript are available at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) archive at http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3f2f92ad04f84e65a2399deeafd8bbbc
Uncontrolled Keywords: sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Climatic Research Unit
Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Water Security Research Centre
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
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Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2020 00:13
Last Modified: 14 Jun 2023 23:49
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/75620
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0039.1

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