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The Brewer–Dobson circulation in CMIP6
Earth Physics and Astrophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Natalia Calvo
Earth Physics and Astrophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Samuel Benito-Barca
Earth Physics and Astrophysics Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Hella Garny
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Steven C. Hardiman
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, USA
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Martin B. Andrews
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
Neal Butchart
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
Rolando Garcia
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Clara Orbe
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
David Saint-Martin
Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Toulouse, France
Shingo Watanabe
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
Kohei Yoshida
Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
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The stratospheric Brewer–Dobson circulation (BDC), responsible for transporting mass, tracers and heat globally in the stratosphere, is evaluated in a set of state-of-the-art climate models. The acceleration of the BDC in response to increasing greenhouse gases is most robust in the lower stratosphere. At higher levels, the well-known inconsistency between model and observational BDC trends can be partly reconciled by accounting for limited sampling and large uncertainties in the observations.
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