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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
卷 10, 期 6, 页码 2643-2653出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-2643-2010
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- NOAA [NA08OAR4310725]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2010CB428604]
- NASA [NNX08AG91G, NNX08AF66G]
This study examines the seasonality of tropical lower-stratospheric temperature trends using the Microwave Sounding Unit lower-stratospheric channel (T-4) for 1980-2008. We present evidence that this seasonality is largely a response to changes in the Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC) driven by extratropical wave forcing. We show how the tropical T-4 trend can be used as an indicator of changes in the BDC, and find that the BDC is strengthening for 1980-2008 in June-November related to the Southern Hemisphere (SH) and in December-February to the Northern Hemisphere (NH). In marked contrast, we find that the BDC is weakening in March-May, apparently because of a weakening of its northern cell. The novel observational evidence on the seasonal dependence of the BDC trends presented in this study has important implications for the understanding of climate change in the stratosphere as well as testing climate model simulations.
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