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The impact of increasing stratospheric radiative damping on the quasi-biennial oscillation period
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Kevin DallaSanta
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, USA
Larissa Nazarenko
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Gavin A. Schmidt
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Zhonghai Jin
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
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Short summary
Stratospheric radiative damping increases with rising CO2. Sensitivity experiments using the one-dimensional mechanistic models of the quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) indicate a shortening of the simulated QBO period due to the enhancing of the radiative damping. This result suggests that increasing radiative damping may play a role in determining the QBO period in a warming climate along with wave momentum flux entering the stratosphere and tropical vertical residual velocity.
Stratospheric radiative damping increases with rising CO2. Sensitivity experiments using the...
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