Slowdown of the Walker circulation driven by tropical Indo-Pacific warming

Hiroki Tokinaga (), Shang-Ping Xie (), Clara Deser, Yu Kosaka and Yuko M. Okumura
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Hiroki Tokinaga: International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1680 East West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Shang-Ping Xie: International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1680 East West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Clara Deser: National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000
Yu Kosaka: International Pacific Research Center, SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1680 East West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Yuko M. Okumura: Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 491, issue 7424, 439-443

Abstract: Changes in the Walker circulation, an enormous east–west atmospheric circulation over the equatorial Pacific Ocean, are shown to be driven by changes in zonal sea surface temperature gradients rather than by changes in the hydrological cycle, as previously suggested.

Date: 2012
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