Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3725-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-3725-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
11 Mar 2021
Research article |
| 11 Mar 2021
| 11 Mar 2021
Influence of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on entry stratospheric water vapor in coupled chemistry–ocean CCMI and CMIP6 models
Chaim I. Garfinkel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Ohad Harari
The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Shlomi Ziskin Ziv
The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Department of Physics, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
Eastern R&D center, Ariel, Israel
The Fredy and Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of China Ministry of Education (KLME), Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Olaf Morgenstern
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Guang Zeng
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
Simone Tilmes
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Douglas Kinnison
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Fiona M. O'Connor
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Neal Butchart
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Makoto Deushi
Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Patrick Jöckel
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Andrea Pozzer
Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, 55128 Mainz, Germany
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Sean Davis
NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Data sets
The IGAC/SPARC Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative Phase-1 (CCMI-1) model data output M. I. Hegglin and J.-F. Lamarque https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/wcrp-ccmi/data/CCMI-1/output
CCMI Phase 1 National Centre for Atmospheric Research https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/project/CCMI1.html
Short summary
Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and El Niño is the dominant mode of variability in the ocean–atmosphere system. The connection between El Niño and water vapor above ~ 17 km is unclear, with single-model studies reaching a range of conclusions. This study examines this connection in 12 different models. While there are substantial differences among the models, all models appear to capture the fundamental physical processes correctly.
Water vapor is the dominant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, and El Niño is the dominant mode...
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