Articles | Volume 19, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2655-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2655-2019
Research article
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28 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 28 Feb 2019

Implication of tropical lower stratospheric cooling in recent trends in tropical circulation and deep convective activity

Kunihiko Kodera, Nawo Eguchi, Rei Ueyama, Yuhji Kuroda, Chiaki Kobayashi, Beatriz M. Funatsu, and Chantal Claud

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AR by Kunihiko Kodera on behalf of the Authors (21 Jun 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Jul 2018) by Peter Haynes
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (19 Jul 2018)
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Jul 2018)
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (10 Aug 2018) by Peter Haynes
AR by Kunihiko Kodera on behalf of the Authors (21 Sep 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (17 Oct 2018) by Peter Haynes
AR by Kunihiko Kodera on behalf of the Authors (29 Nov 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (01 Jan 2019) by Peter Haynes
AR by Kunihiko Kodera on behalf of the Authors (05 Jan 2019)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (02 Feb 2019) by Peter Haynes
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Short summary
The recent cooling of the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean occurred in conjunction with enhanced cross-equatorial southerlies associated with a strengthening of the boreal summer Hadley circulation. A combination of land surface warming and reduced static stability in the tropical tropopause layer due to stratospheric cooling is suggested to have caused the increase in the deep ascending branch of the Hadley circulation and related recent decadal change in the tropical troposphere and ocean.
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