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Sensitivity of the ITCZ Location to Ocean Forcing via q-flux Green’s Function 1
Experiments 2
Bryce E. Harrop1, Jian Lu
1, Fukai Liu
2, Oluwayemi Garuba
1, L. Ruby Leung
1 3
1Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 4
Richland, WA, USA. 5
2Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMST, Ocean University of China and Qingdao National 6
Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China. 7
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Corresponding author: Jian Lu (jian.lu@pnnl.gov) 9
Key Points: 10
The response of the ITCZ position to forcing is asymmetric depending on which 11
hemisphere the forcing is applied in. 12
The asymmetric ITCZ response comes from the nonlinear component of the response, 13
which has a similar magnitude to the linear response. 14
The nonlinear response pattern is insensitive to the location of the forcing, but its 15
magnitude is greatest for high latitude forcings. 16
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Abstract 18
The sensitivity of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) position to forcing patterns is 19
important for understanding changes in tropical rainfall. A set of Green’s function experiments 20
reveals that this sensitivity is asymmetric depending on which hemisphere (northern or southern) 21
the forcing is applied. Northern hemisphere forcings produce a much larger response than 22
southern hemisphere forcings of similar magnitude. The response of the ITCZ position to 23
forcing can be broken into linear and nonlinear components, and it is shown that the asymmetry 24
arises from the nonlinear component. The linear and nonlinear response components have 25
similar magnitudes, but the nonlinear component is insensitive to the location of the forcing, 26
such that it amplifies the response to northern hemisphere forcings and dampens the response to 27
southern hemisphere forcings. This asymmetry hints at an intrinsic mode of the climate system 28
such as the ITCZ response to forcing depends on the current climate state. 29
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Plain Language Summary 31
The tropical rain belt is a key component of the climate system and understanding its response to 32
heating and cooling patterns is a necessary step toward understanding tropical rainfall changes. 33
When the atmosphere is heated or cooled in one hemisphere, flow of energy across the equator in 34
the atmosphere shifts the tropical rain belt. Warming the northern hemisphere and cooling the 35
southern hemisphere produces a much stronger (northward) shift of the rain belt than warming 36
the southern hemisphere and cooling the northern hemisphere. The inclination towards a 37
northward shift of the rain belt, irrespective of the location of heating (or cooling), likely arises 38
from the intrinsic nonlinearity of the current climate. In other words, the asymmetry arises 39
because the rain belt response depends on the state of the current climate, which is asymmetric 40
about the equator because the northern hemisphere receives more energy than the southern 41
hemisphere on annual average. 42
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1 Introduction 44
The distribution of tropical rainfall is one of the most interesting aspects of the climate 45
system, in part owing to its asymmetry about the equator. The northern hemisphere tropics sees 46
substantially more rainfall annually than the southern hemisphere tropics. The rainfall in the 47
tropics is concentrated in a band known as the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ). Over the 48
past decade, a strong theoretical framework has been established for understanding the annual 49
mean position of the ITCZ through its relationship to the atmospheric transport of energy. The 50
canonical picture of the ITCZ is one in which precipitation is located at the ascending branch of 51
the Hadley circulation and energy is transported poleward in the upper branch of the circulation 52
(Held 2001), suggesting that the ITCZ ought to lie predominantly in the hemisphere with a net 53
export of energy in the annual mean. In the Earth’s atmosphere, there exists a cross-equatorial 54
flow of energy in the annual mean from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere, 55
which counterbalances a northward flow of energy in the ocean (Kang et al. 2008; Frierson et al. 56
2013; Kang et al. 2015). 57
Changes in the cross-equatorial atmospheric energy transport, referred to as atmospheric 58
heat transport (AHTeq) for simplicity, have been shown to be a useful framework for 59
understanding changes in ITCZ location (Kang et al. 2008, 2009; Frierson and Hwang 2012; 60
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Frierson et al. 2013; Donohoe et al. 2013, 2014; Seo et al. 2014; Bischoff and Schneider 2014, 61
2016, Adam et al. 2016, 2017). Observations show that seasonal and interannual variations in 62
the ITCZ position are highly correlated with changes in cross-equatorial atmospheric energy 63
transport (Donohoe et al. 2013, 2014). The observed seasonal relationship between ITCZ 64
position and AHTeq yields a value of -2.7° PW-1
(compared to a value of -2.4° PW-1
in coupled 65
models (Donohoe et al. 2013). The displacement ratio is -2.9° PW-1
for interannual variations 66
(Donohoe et al. 2014). 67
The sensitivity of the ITCZ position to CO2 forcing is model dependent (Merlis et al. 68
2013), and is related to water vapor and cloud feedbacks (Kang et al. 2008; Shaw et al. 2015). 69
Additionally, it has been shown that forcing exerted in the extratropics invokes a larger shift of 70
the ITCZ than similar forcing applied within the tropics, owing at least in part to water vapor and 71
cloud feedbacks (Kang et al. 2009; Seo et al. 2014). Other factors have also been shown to be 72
important for understanding the sensitivity of ITCZ shifts to forcing, including (i) subtropical 73
wind-driven ocean circulation (Green and Marshall 2017) which tends to dampen the shifts in the 74
ITCZ, (ii) changes in solar constant (Smyth et al. 2017) which reduce seasonal migration of the 75
ITCZ because less cross-equatorial energy transport is needed to balance the interhemispheric 76
difference in energy input, and (iii) gross moist stability (Kang et al. 2009; Seo et al. 2017) 77
which relates fluxes of energy to fluxes of mass in the tropical overturning circulation and allows 78
for a decoupling of the relationship between ITCZ position and AHTeq. In short, the shift in the 79
ITCZ in response to changing AHTeq can be modulated by both oceanic responses as well as 80
gross moist stability changes in the atmosphere. 81
The same factors that impact AHTeq can also impact the ratio of heat transported by the 82
atmosphere to that transported by the ocean, known as Bjerknes compensation. Bjerknes 83
compensation can be greater than one where local feedbacks are positive (Liu et al. 2016; Yang 84
et al. 2016) or less than one where feedbacks are negative. Dai et al. (2017) used radiative 85
kernels to separate the role of individual climate feedbacks on Bjerknes compensation and 86
suggested that overcompensation is related to water vapor and cloud feedbacks, while 87
undercompensation is related to the longwave response to temperature increases in the 88
extratropics. 89
Here we build off of the work of (Seo et al. 2014) to examine the response of the ITCZ to 90
forcing perturbations at different latitudes taken from a series of Green’s function experiments. 91
The Green’s function approach allows us to systematically probe the atmospheric response to 92
forcing perturbations across the globe. The model experiments and methods used in this study 93
are outlined in section 2, results and discussion are presented in section 3, and a summary 94
statement is provided in section 4. 95
2 Model experiments and methods 96
The model used here is the slab ocean version of the Community Earth System Model 97
version 1.1 (CESM1.1-SOM). The model uses the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 98
(CAM5), the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4), and the Community Ice Code (CICE) 99
components, as well as a motionless slab ocean mixed layer model. The use of a slab ocean 100
model means that the sea surface temperature (SST) in the model is prognostic, with its value 101
determined by the balance of ocean heat transport, radiant energy, and turbulent heat fluxes (both 102
sensible and latent) at the surface. Ocean heat transport and mixed layer depth are prescribed 103
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based on a fully coupled CESM1.1 simulation. Ocean heat transport is allowed to vary in space 104
and has a repeating seasonal cycle, while mixed layer depth is only allowed to vary in space. 105
Horizontal grid spacing for CAM5 and CLM4 is 2.5°×1.9°, while for CICE and the slab ocean 106
model, horizontal grid spacing telescopes meridionally from 1° at high latitudes to ~0.3° at the 107
equator. 108
The Green’s function experiments are a series of branch runs from a 900-year control 109
simulation of CESM1.1-SOM run by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), 110
forced with preindustrial greenhouse gases, aerosols, and solar insolation. For each experiment, a 111
q-flux perturbation is added or subtracted from the climatological q-flux profile over a limited 112
patch within the domain. In total, 97 patches are used for the q-flux perturbations. For each 113
patch, a positive and negative anomaly is added as a hump following (Barsugli and Sardeshmukh 114
2002). 115
2 2cos cos , for and2 2
othe0 r ise, w
k kw k w w k w
w w
Q
116
where Q is the magnitude of the q-flux perturbation at the patch center (λk, φk), set to be 12 Wm-
117 2. The patch half-widths are 30° in the zonal direction (λw) and 12° in the meridional direction 118
(φw). Summing all 97 patches together gives a uniform 12 Wm-2
forcing over the global ocean, 119
except in the vicinity of the coasts or sea ice edge. 120
Each Green’s function experiment is integrated for 40 years, with the first 20 years 121
discarded as an adjustment period. Both the linear and non-linear parts of the response are 122
analyzed herein. The linear response is calculated as the response Rlinear = (R+
– R-)/2ΔQ, with 123
the superscript + (-) denoting a positive (negative) q-flux perturbation, and ΔQ being the total 124
forcing in PW from the q-flux area. Positive q-flux implies a heat source for the atmosphere-slab 125
coupled system. The nonlinear response is estimated as the response Rnonlinear = (R+ – 2R
0 + R
-126
)/2ΔQ, where superscript 0 denotes the control. Taking R to be the response anomaly from the 127
control implies R0 is zero, and hence the nonlinear response simplifies to Rnonlinear = (R
+ + R
-128
)/2ΔQ. The location of the ITCZ is measured as the latitude centroid of precipitation: 129
2
1
2
1
ITCZ
cos d
cos d
P
P
130
where φ1 =20°S and φ2 =20°N are the latitude bounds for the integration. AHTeq is estimated as 131
the average from 10°S-10°N. For calculation of AHT, the global mean value is removed from 132
the fluxes, such that AHT is zero at both poles. The global mean value of the net flux of energy 133
into the atmosphere is small and removing its value from the calculation of AHT does not impact 134
our conclusions. 135
3 Results 136
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Figure 1 shows the AHT response to OHT at various latitudes, both for south-to-north 137
OHT and north-to-south OHT. It is immediately apparent that there is an asymmetry in the 138
atmospheric response depending on the direction of the flow of energy within the ocean. For 139
OHT that is oriented south-to-north, the atmosphere has a clear and strong return flow of energy 140
that is north-to-south, as expected based on previous studies (Seo et al. 2014). Like the results of 141
Seo et al. (2014), Figure 1 shows that high latitude forcing generates a larger AHT response than 142
low latitude forcing. Our results, however, differ from those of Seo et al. (2014) in two key 143
ways. First, the compensation by the atmosphere for south-to-north OHT is much larger (~400% 144
for mid-latitude forcing compared to ~140% in Seo et al. (2014). Second, we performed 145
experiments with north-to-south OHT, whereas Seo et al. (2014) only did south-to-north OHT 146
experiments. The north-to-south OHT experiments show a very weak and even negative 147
compensation (the AHT is in the same north-to-south direction as the OHT) for some cases at the 148
equator, revealing a key asymmetry simulated by the model. 149
What gives rise to the asymmetry shown in Figure 1? Figure 2 shows the breakdown of 150
the AHT into the feedback mechanisms responsible for the patterns shown in Figure 1. The 151
anomalous AHT from any given feedback is computed as 152
2 /2 22 2
/2 0 /2 0TOA SFC TOA SFC
AHT ( ) cos d d cos d dX
R R R Ra X a X
X X X X
153
154
where a is the radius of the earth, R is the radiative flux response, X is the feedback parameter of 155
interest, and 𝝏𝑹
𝝏𝑿 is the radiative kernel developed by Huang et al. (2017), which is calculated 156
using the rapid radiative transfer model of Mlawer et al. (1997) based on 6-hourly atmospheric 157
profiles from the ERA-Interim reanalysis (Dee et al. 2011). The global mean radiative flux 158
change is subtracted off such that the anomalous AHT goes to zero at both poles. All of the 159
individual feedbacks are important for understanding the total AHT response, except for the 160
albedo feedback. It is not to say that the albedo feedback is not important for modulating AHT, 161
rather that albedo only influences AHT indirectly through changes in the surface energy budget. 162
For the water vapor, temperature, cloud, and turbulent heat flux (THFLX; sensible plus latent 163
heat fluxes) components, the response is asymmetric between the different directions of OHT. In 164
all of the feedbacks, the magnitude of the response is stronger in the south-to-north OHT 165
experiments and weaker in the north-to-south OHT experiments. 166
The climatological ITCZ is in the northern hemisphere; as such, an intensification of that 167
pattern leads to stronger southward AHTeq. In the case of south-to-north OHT, this 168
intensification of southward AHTeq is expected, and the results confirm it. For north-to-south 169
OHT, one might expect the opposite, but our results show that AHTeq is still southward (albeit 170
much weaker than the south-to-north OHT cases). The southward AHTeq results from the water 171
vapor and cloud feedbacks (Figure 2). The structure of the cloud and water vapor feedback 172
responses, like the total AHT response, suggests the ITCZ is not shifting southward for the 173
north-to-south OHT experiments, but is instead shifting northward. 174
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To further probe the asymmetric response of the atmosphere to heating and cooling 175
patterns, the shift in the ITCZ is separated into linear and nonlinear response components. For 176
this analysis, we focus on forcing at a single latitude instead of the forcing pairs examined above. 177
For example, the linear response is taken as the difference in positive and negative q-flux 178
perturbations at a single latitude. Figure 3a shows the linear response of the ITCZ for a forcing 179
at each latitude. For the linear response, the ITCZ shifts as expected toward the hemisphere 180
where the heating is applied (or away from in the case of cooling), with a strong correlation 181
(r2=0.98) between the ITCZ shift and AHTeq (here measured as the average energy flux between 182
10°S-10°N). Also as expected, the magnitude of the shift tends to be larger for higher-latitude 183
forcings than for lower-latitude forcings. Forcing right at the equator produces no shift of the 184
ITCZ. The slope of the response of the ITCZ shift to AHTeq is -3.8 ± 0.4° PW-1
. In observations 185
of the seasonal progression of the ITCZ, the slope of the ITCZ shift to AHTeq is only -2.7 ± 0.6° 186
PW-1
(Donohoe et al. 2013). As noted by Donohoe et al. (2013), the slope of the seasonal ITCZ 187
shift to AHTeq value varies substantially with mixed layer depth in models (from -2.0° PW-1
for a 188
2.4 m mixed layer depth to -6.1° PW-1
for a 50 m mixed layer depth). The -3.8° PW-1
value 189
retrieved from our experiments is well within that spread, and agrees with the findings of 190
Donohoe et al. (2013). For reference, the slab ocean mixed layer depth is variable in space for 191
our experiments, generally ranging from 6 m to 100 m (with a limited region of the North 192
Atlantic having a mixed layer depth of approximately 300 m). 193
While the linear response of the ITCZ position to forcing behaves as expected, the 194
nonlinear response is distinct. For the nonlinear response, shown in Figure 3b, the ITCZ shifts 195
northward regardless of which hemisphere the q-flux forcing is applied to. The net response 196
(linear plus nonlinear; Figure 3c) shows a northward shift of the ITCZ for all experiments except 197
the southern hemisphere high latitude forcing (55°S). The other four southern hemisphere 198
forcing bands (44°S-10°S) all have a net response of a northward ITCZ shift, despite the surface 199
heating being applied in the southern hemisphere. Furthermore, the sign of the q-flux forcing 200
does not matter for the nonlinear response by construction (either sign produces a northward shift 201
of the ITCZ). The nonlinear response magnitude is larger for high latitude forcings than low 202
latitude forcings. The forcing at 57°N is especially large, potentially as a result of the large 203
mixed layer depths encountered in the North Atlantic. Future work is needed to confirm or reject 204
this hypothesis. 205
The nonlinear response of the ITCZ suggests one or more modes of variability within the 206
control climate is in a local minimum, such that any forcing will create the same response as the 207
response of the system to natural fluctuations. The response is not sensitive to location either. 208
Even the equatorial q-flux forcing produces a northward ITCZ shift (see Figure 3b). The pattern 209
of the nonlinear component of surface temperature response is complex (unlike the linear 210
component which is far more zonally uniform, not shown) and looks like a combination of a 211
negative Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) pattern, a cooling over the West Pacific warm 212
pool, a roughly zonally uniform southern ocean cooling, and a wavenumber one temperature 213
pattern in the arctic (Figure 4a). This complicated surface temperature structure gives rise to a 214
wavenumber 2 pattern in water vapor and precipitation across the tropics that is superimposed on 215
top of the zonal mean northward shift of those two moisture fields associated with the northward 216
shift of the ITCZ. The response of the longwave cloud radiative effect (LWCRE) measured at 217
the top of the atmosphere resembles the water vapor and precipitation response. The shortwave 218
cloud radiative effect (SWCRE) does as well, except over the stratocumulus regions, where 219
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cooling surface temperatures lead to decreasing SWCRE. The THFLX (latent plus sensible heat 220
flux) is positively correlated with SWCRE over oceans, suggesting the increase (decrease) of 221
solar forcing at the surface is partly offset by increasing (decreasing) THFLX into the 222
atmosphere. 223
While the magnitude of the nonlinear AHT response depends on the latitude of the 224
forcing (high latitude forcings produce a larger response than low latitude forcings, as expected), 225
it is remarkable that the zonal mean spatial pattern of the nonlinear AHT response is about the 226
same for all of the forcing locations (see Figure 5). Like the total nonlinear AHT response, the 227
individual feedbacks also only vary by magnitude between forcing locations (the spatial patterns 228
are the same). The nonlinear AHT response acts to converge energy into the SH 229
tropics/subtropics (anomalous northward transport south of ~20°S and anomalous southward 230
transport north of ~20°S). Different feedbacks dominate these anomalies at different latitudes. 231
The southward AHTeq in the nonlinear response is the culmination of forcings at both 232
high and low latitudes. At global scales, the temperature feedback induces a northward flow of 233
energy in the atmosphere, while the turbulent heat flux (THFLX; sensible plus latent heat fluxes) 234
induces a southward flow of energy in the atmosphere with a relative minimum near the equator. 235
Both of these broad features can be understood in terms of the asymmetric temperature response 236
seen in Figure 4a. The southern hemisphere cools relative to the northern hemisphere which 237
weakens both radiative cooling of the atmosphere in the SH relative to the NH (ignoring 238
emissivity changes) and the THFLX into the SH relative to the NH. On top of these responses, 239
large changes to the energy fluxes in the tropics occur owing to the response of water vapor, 240
clouds, and THFLX. The tropical changes are all consistent with a northward shift of the ITCZ, 241
though it is impossible to determine causality in this simple diagnostic framework. 242
The water vapor and cloud feedback response of AHT is consistent with energy 243
convergence between 15°S-0°, and energy divergence between 0°-20°N. The response of AHT 244
to THFLX is the exact opposite (energy divergence 15°S-0°, energy convergence 0°-20°N). The 245
response of AHT to clouds comes from changes in the atmospheric cloud radiative effect. In the 246
tropics, the atmospheric cloud radiative effect is dominated by LWCRE (Slingo and Slingo 247
1988). Thus, the cloud feedback portion of the AHT response results from changing high cloud 248
patterns at low latitudes. Figure 4f shows the northward shift of tropical high clouds, consistent 249
with the ITCZ shift, and the resulting heating/cooling dipole about the equator. The AHT 250
response to water vapor is similar to that of clouds at low latitudes. Changes in water vapor can 251
impact radiative cooling in multiple ways. The increase in column water vapor generally 252
increases atmospheric cooling as a result of increased downwelling longwave radiation 253
(Pendergrass and Hartmann 2013). The vertical redistribution of water vapor by convection, 254
however, decreases atmospheric cooling as a result of reduced outgoing longwave radiation 255
(Harrop and Hartmann 2015). Given the similarity of the water vapor and cloud responses in the 256
tropics in Figure 5, it appears that the convective redistribution of water vapor is the bigger 257
factor in the nonlinear response. 258
Figure 4c shows that THFLX is negatively correlated with precipitation over a large 259
portion of the tropics, meaning THFLX increases where precipitation decreases. The correlation 260
between precipitation and THFLX suggests that the THFLX changes are directly linked to the 261
precipitation changes, though it is unclear whether that is because of changes in boundary layer 262
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humidity, circulation, or other factors. Zonal mean easterlies increase near the surface at, and 263
just south, of the equator, with a decrease in the easterlies just north of the equator (not shown). 264
These changes in zonal wind imply increasing THFLX south of the equator and decreasing 265
THFLX north of the equator, which Figure 4 and Figure 5 confirm. 266
It is also important to consider that the relative importance of each feedback process 267
tends to be model dependent. RCP8.5 simulations show consistent responses of AHTeq and 268
ITCZ shift for similar feedbacks, but the magnitudes vary dramatically (McFarlane and Frierson 269
2017). Also, OHT responses counterbalance some of the AHTeq response, further reducing 270
model agreement on the response of the climate to forcing perturbations. Our results show that 271
while the magnitude of the nonlinear response may be sensitive to forcing location, the pattern is 272
not. We caution that the spatial pattern of the total nonlinear AHT response may vary across 273
models. Despite the potential model-dependency of the nonlinear spatial pattern, its robustness 274
to various forcings within the same model means it can serve as a fingerprint for understanding 275
the atmospheric response to external or oceanic forcings. 276
4 Concluding Remarks 277
The results of this study reveal a key asymmetry of the tropical precipitation response to 278
forcing within the simulated climate system. The linear response of AHT to a forcing 279
perturbation shifts the ITCZ toward the hemisphere in which the heating is applied. The 280
nonlinear response, however, acts to shift the ITCZ northward, regardless of the sign of the 281
forcing or in which hemisphere it is applied. The sensitivity of the ITCZ to high latitude 282
forcings, for both the linear and nonlinear responses, is greater than the corresponding responses 283
to low latitude forcings, partly attributable to the amplifying effects from the cloud and water 284
vapor feedbacks (consistent with previous work). Intriguingly, the spatial pattern of the 285
nonlinear response is the same regardless of the location of the forcing, hinting at an intrinsic 286
mode of the climate system such that the response of the ITCZ to any forcing will be similar to 287
the response of the system in its current mean state to natural fluctuations. 288
Future effort is needed to understand the physical processes responsible for the nonlinear 289
response and their robustness across different climate models. Additional work is needed to 290
determine the role of the ocean in modulating the nonlinear response in a coupled model with a 291
dynamic ocean. The land-sea geometry may also prove to be an important factor in shaping the 292
pattern of the nonlinear response. Nevertheless, the similarity in magnitude of the linear and 293
nonlinear responses of the ITCZ to forcing underlines the importance of the nonlinear response 294
and the inherent nonlinearity of the climate system, which has not been a focus of climate 295
sensitivity research. Last, efforts are also needed to determine whether the patterns uncovered in 296
our modeling analysis may be found in observations. 297
Acknowledgments, Samples, and Data 298
This study is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Biological and 299
Environmental Research (BER) as part of the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program. 300
We acknowledge the use of computational resources of the National Energy Research Scientific 301
Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of 302
the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. All the model data 303
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output has been archived on NERSC High Performance Storage System (HPSS) and can be 304
accessed via the following URL (TBD). The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is operated 305
for the Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute under contract DE-AC05-306
76RL01830. 307
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403 Figure 1. (a) The implied OHT needed to balance the Green’s function heating/cooling 404
perturbations; (b) the AHT response; and (c) the compensation ratio (AHT/OHT). Colors denote 405
the latitude at which the forcing is applied ( 50N 50S 50S 50N;50N R R S0 R R5 ). 406
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407 Figure 2. The breakdown of the AHT (left) and compensation (right) for the various components 408
including the water vapor feedback, temperature feedback (both Planck and lapse rate), albedo 409
feedback, cloud feedback, and the change in total heat flux (surface sensible plus latent). Colors 410
denote the latitude at which the forcing is applied ( 50N 50S 50S 50N;50N R R S0 R R5 ). 411
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Figure 3. (a) The shift of the ITCZ for the linear response (415
50N 50S 50S 50N;50N R R S0 R R5 ). (b) The shift of the ITCZ for the nonlinear response (416
50N 50S 50S 50N;50N R R S0 R R5 ). (c) The shift of the ITCZ for the sum of the linear and 417
nonlinear responses. Colors denote the latitude at which the forcing is applied. 418
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419 Figure 4: Maps of nonlinear response for (a) surface temperature, (b) precipitable water, (c) total 420
(latent + sensible) heat flux (d) total precipitation rate, (e) shortwave cloud radiative effect, and 421
(f) longwave cloud radiative effect, and (f) combined sensible and latent heat flux (positive 422
downward). For SWCRE and LWCRE, both are computed at top-of-atmosphere. 423
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427 Figure 5. The AHT anomalies from the nonlinear response for (a) total, (b) water vapor 428
feedback, (c) temperature feedback (lapse rate + Planck), (d) albedo feedback, (e) cloud 429
feedback, (f) latent + sensible heat feedback. Colors denote the latitude at which the forcing is 430
applied ( 50N 50S 50S 50N;50N R R S0 R R5 ). 431
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