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Drier tropical and subtropical Southern Hemisphere in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period

by Otto-Bliesner, Bette L. , Contoux, Camille , Pontes, Gabriel M. , Lohmann, Gerrit , Brady, Esther C. , Peltier, W. Richard , Chan, Wing-Le , Feng, Ran , Hunter, Stephen J. , Stepanek, Christian , Kame, Yoichi , Sen Gupta, Alex , Taschetto, Andréa S. , Abe-Ouchi, Ayako , Zhang, Qiong , Tindall, Julia , Tan, Ning , Zhang, Zhongshi , Wainer, Ilana , Chandan, Deepak

in 704/106 / 704/106/35 / 704/106/413 / 704/106/694 / Atmosphere / Atmospheric circulation / Cerebral hemispheres / Climate / Climate models / Continental interfaces, environment / Convergence / Humanities and Social Sciences / Ice sheets / multidisciplinary / Ocean, Atmosphere / Pliocene / Precipitation / Rainfall / Science / Science (multidisciplinary) / Sciences of the Universe / Subtropical convergences / Temperature gradients / Tropical environments / Wind

2020

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Drier tropical and subtropical Southern Hemisphere in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period

Otto-Bliesner, Bette L.,

Contoux, Camille,

Pontes, Gabriel M.,

Lohmann, Gerrit,

Brady, Esther C.,

Peltier, W. Richard,

Chan, Wing-Le,

Feng, Ran,

Hunter, Stephen J.,

Stepanek, Christian,

Kame, Yoichi,

Sen Gupta, Alex,

Taschetto, Andréa S.,

Abe-Ouchi, Ayako,

Zhang, Qiong,

Tindall, Julia,

Tan, Ning,

Zhang, Zhongshi,

Wainer, Ilana,

Chandan, Deepak

2020

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Thermodynamic arguments imply that global mean rainfall increases in a warmer atmosphere; however, dynamical effects may result in more significant diversity of regional precipitation change. Here we investigate rainfall changes in the mid-Pliocene Warm Period (~ 3 Ma), a time when temperatures were 2–3ºC warmer than the pre-industrial era, using output from the Pliocene Model Intercomparison Projects phases 1 and 2 and sensitivity climate model experiments. In the Mid-Pliocene simulations, the higher rates of warming in the northern hemisphere create an interhemispheric temperature gradient that enhances the southward cross-equatorial energy flux by up to 48%. This intensified energy flux reorganizes the atmospheric circulation leading to a northward shift of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and a weakened and poleward displaced Southern Hemisphere Subtropical Convergences Zones. These changes result in drier-than-normal Southern Hemisphere tropics and subtropics. The evaluation of the mid-Pliocene adds a constraint to possible future warmer scenarios associated with differing rates of warming between hemispheres.

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