Impact of global sea surface temperature on the recent early winter Arctic tropospheric warming in coordinated large ensemble simulations 协调大集合模拟下全球海表面温度对北极对流层早冬增暖的影响

Abstract

Coordinated numerical ensemble experiments with six different state-of-the-art atmosphere models were used to evaluate and quantify the impact of global SST (from reanalysis data) on the early winter Arctic warming during 1982–2014. Two sets of experiments were designed: in the first set (EXP1), OISSTv2 daily sea-ice concentration and SST variations were used as the lower boundary forcing, while in the second set (EXP2) the SST data were replaced by the daily SST climatology. In the results, the multi-model ensemble mean of EXP1 showed a near-surface (~850 hPa) warming trend of 0.4 °C/10 yr, which was 80% of the warming trend in the reanalysis. The simulated warming trend was robust across the six models, with a magnitude of 0.36–0.50 °C/10 yr. The global SST could explain most of the simulated warming trend in EXP1 in the mid and low troposphere over the Arctic, and accounted for 58% of the simulated near-surface warming. The results also suggest that the upper-tropospheric warming (~200 hPa) over the Arctic in the reanalysis is likely not a forced signal; rather, it is caused by natural climate variability. The source regions that can potentially impact the early winter Arctic warming are explored and the limitations of the study are discussed.摘要本文使用六个不同的最新大气模式进行了协调数值集合实验, 评估和量化了全球海表面温度 (SST) 对1982–2014年冬季早期北极变暖的影响.本研究设计了两组实验:在第一组 (EXP1) 中, 将OISSTv2逐日变化的海冰密集度和SST数据作为下边界强迫场;在第二组 (EXP2) 中, 将逐日变化的SST数据替换为逐日气候态.结果表明: (1) EXP1的多模式集合总体平均值显示0.4 °C/10年的近地表 (约850 hPa) 升温趋势, 为再分析数据结果中升温趋势的80%. (2) 在这六个模式中, 模拟的变暖趋势均很强, 幅度为0.36–0.50 °C/10年. (3) 全球海表温度可以解释北极对流层中低层EXP1的大部分模拟的变暖趋势, 占再分析数据结果的58%. (4) 再分析数据结果中, 北极上空的对流层上层变暖 (约200 hPa) 不是由强迫信号而可能是由自然气候变率引起的.本文还探索了影响北极初冬变暖的可能源区, 并讨论了该研究的局限性.