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for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 220302 Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Projected changes of the tropical Atlantic vertical wind shear and its relationship with ENSO in the SP-CCSM4Xiaojie Zhu1, Li Xu1, and Cristiana Stan1,2
Model and Experiments
AcknowledgementsWe thank all the scientists and software engineers who contributed to the development of the CCSM4 and the super-parameterization. This work has been supported by the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program funded by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under award number SC0006722. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Projected change of vertical wind shear in RCP8.5
ENSO-shear relationship Control run SP-CCSM4 CCSM4
Abstract
The vertical wind shear over the tropical Atlantic and its relationship with ENSO are analyzed in the Super Parameterized Community Climate System Model version 4 (SP-CCSM4) and in the conventional CCSM4. The climatology of vertical wind shear over the tropical Atlantic and the ENSO-shear relationship are well simulated in the control runs of SP-CCSM4 and CCSM4. However, due to different representations of cloud processes,
in a warmer climate such as the RCP8.5 scenario, the suppression of convection over the western Africa in SP-CCSM4 is stronger than in CCSM4.
As a result,
SP-CCSM4 projects increased
westerlies
at 200hPa that further contributes to an increased vertical wind shear over the equatorial Atlantic. Furthermore, in the RCP8.5 scenario, projection of the ENSO-shear relationship by the SP-CCSM4, with and without long-term linear trend, retains similar features as in observation. Conversely, the ENSO-shear relationship, with long-term trend, over the equatorial Atlantic projected by the CCSM4 is opposite to that in SP-CCSM4 and observation. Likewise, the two models simulate a different response of the tropical Atlantic SST to ENSO. These differences are also present in the response of tropical Atlantic precipitation and convection to ENSO in warmer climate.
CAM
CLM
POP
CICE
CPL
fv19
g
x1_v6
CCSM4
Historical run, RCP8.5
2006 – 2100
CAM
CLM
POP
CICE
CPL
fv09
g
x1_v6
3
km
SP-CCSM4
Control run, RCP8.5
2005 – 2100
Climatology in Control runs
Walker Circulation and Convection
Projected JASO ENSO pattern and its impact on cloud
The JASO climatological mean vertical wind shear in (a) ERA-Interim reanalysis, and control run in (c) SP-CCSM4 and in (e) CCSM4. The JASO climatology zonal wind at 200hPa in (b) ERA-Interim reanalysis, control run in (d) SP-CCSM4 and in (f) CCSM4. Unit: m/s. Shading represents vertical wind shear lower than 10m/s.
The regression of JASO mean vertical wind shear on JASO mean Niño3.4
index
Climatology in the Control run
Change in the RCP8.5 Scenario
RCP8.5 Scenario
Without trend
With trend
SP-CCSM4
CCSM4