Different flavors of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability
We investigate how differently-constructed indices for North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures (NASSTs) describe the “Atlantic Multidecadal Variability” (AMV) in a suite of unperturbed as well as externally-forced millennial (pre-industrial period) climate simulations. The simulations stem from an e...
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ftpubman:oai:pure.mpg.de:item_1611284 2023-08-27T04:10:53+02:00 Different flavors of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability Zanchettin, D. Bothe, O. Mueller, W. Bader, J. Jungclaus, J. 2014-01 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-7BA5-A http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0015-0E5B-F eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00382-013-1669-0 http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-7BA5-A http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0015-0E5B-F Climate Dynamics info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2014 ftpubman https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1669-0 2023-08-02T01:20:26Z We investigate how differently-constructed indices for North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures (NASSTs) describe the “Atlantic Multidecadal Variability” (AMV) in a suite of unperturbed as well as externally-forced millennial (pre-industrial period) climate simulations. The simulations stem from an ensemble of Earth system models differing in both resolution and complexity. Different criteria exist to construct AMV indices capturing different aspects of the phenomenon. Although all representations of the AMV maintain strong multidecadal variability, they depict different characteristics of simulated low-frequency NASST variability, evolve differently in time and relate to different hemispheric teleconnections. Due to such multifaceted signatures in the ocean-surface as well as in the atmosphere, reconstructions of past AMV may not univocally reproduce multidecadal NASST variability. AMV features under simulated externally-forced pre-industrial climate conditions are not unambiguously distinguishable, within a linear framework, from AMV features in corresponding unperturbed simulations. This prevents a robust diagnosis of the simulated pre-industrial AMV as a predominantly internal rather than externally-forced phenomenon. We conclude that a multi-perspective assessment of multidecadal NASSTs variability is necessary for understanding the origin of the AMV, its physics and its climatic implications. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Max Planck Society: MPG.PuRe Climate Dynamics 42 1-2 381 399 |
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We investigate how differently-constructed indices for North Atlantic sea-surface temperatures (NASSTs) describe the “Atlantic Multidecadal Variability” (AMV) in a suite of unperturbed as well as externally-forced millennial (pre-industrial period) climate simulations. The simulations stem from an ensemble of Earth system models differing in both resolution and complexity. Different criteria exist to construct AMV indices capturing different aspects of the phenomenon. Although all representations of the AMV maintain strong multidecadal variability, they depict different characteristics of simulated low-frequency NASST variability, evolve differently in time and relate to different hemispheric teleconnections. Due to such multifaceted signatures in the ocean-surface as well as in the atmosphere, reconstructions of past AMV may not univocally reproduce multidecadal NASST variability. AMV features under simulated externally-forced pre-industrial climate conditions are not unambiguously distinguishable, within a linear framework, from AMV features in corresponding unperturbed simulations. This prevents a robust diagnosis of the simulated pre-industrial AMV as a predominantly internal rather than externally-forced phenomenon. We conclude that a multi-perspective assessment of multidecadal NASSTs variability is necessary for understanding the origin of the AMV, its physics and its climatic implications. |
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Different flavors of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability |
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Different flavors of the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability |
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