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Sources of Uncertainty in the Tropical Pacific Warming Pattern under Global Warming Projected by Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models

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This chapter is an introduction, which elaborates the significance and background study of the tropical Pacific SST warming pattern. Specifically, three aspects are systematically reviewed: (1) the common climatological biases in model simulations, including the tropical-mean SST bias, the double intertropical convergence zone bias, and the excessive cold tongue bias; (2) the tropical Pacific SST warming trend in the past century based on multiple observational datasets; (3) the formation mechanisms of the tropical Pacific SST warming pattern, including the zonal warming pattern, the meridional equatorial peak warming pattern and the hemispheric asymmetric warming pattern. In addition, the models and related variables used in this monograph are illustrated.

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Ying, J. (2020). Introduction. In: Sources of Uncertainty in the Tropical Pacific Warming Pattern under Global Warming Projected by Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Models. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9844-6_1

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