Responses of the Tropical Atmospheric Circulation to Climate Change and Connection to the Hydrological Cycle

Author:

Ma Jian1,Chadwick Robin2,Seo Kyong-Hwan3,Dong Changming45,Huang Gang6789,Foltz Gregory R.10,Jiang Jonathan H.11

Affiliation:

1. College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, 201306 Shanghai, China;

2. Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom;

3. Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan, 46279, South Korea;

4. School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, 210044 Nanjing, China

5. Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA;

6. State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100029 Beijing, China;

7. Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 266237 Qingdao, China

8. Joint Center for Global Change Studies, 100875 Beijing, China

9. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049 Beijing, China

10. Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, Florida 33149, USA;

11. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA;

Abstract

This review describes the climate change–induced responses of the tropical atmospheric circulation and their impacts on the hydrological cycle. We depict the theoretically predicted changes and diagnose physical mechanisms for observational and model-projected trends in large-scale and regional climate. The tropical circulation slows down with moisture and stratification changes, connecting to a poleward expansion of the Hadley cells and a shift of the intertropical convergence zone. Redistributions of regional precipitation consist of thermodynamic and dynamical components, including a strong offset between moisture increase and circulation weakening throughout the tropics. This allows other dynamical processes to dominate local circulation changes, such as a surface warming pattern effect over oceans and multiple mechanisms over land. To improve reliability in climate projections, more fundamental understandings of pattern formation, circulation change, and the balance of various processes redistributing land rainfall are suggested to be important.

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous),Astronomy and Astrophysics

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