Decreased Indian Ocean Dipole variability under prolonged greenhouse warming.


Journal

Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Apr 2024
Historique:
received: 07 10 2023
accepted: 22 03 2024
medline: 2 4 2024
pubmed: 2 4 2024
entrez: 1 4 2024
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a major climate variability mode that substantially influences weather extremes and climate patterns worldwide. However, the response of IOD variability to anthropogenic global warming remains highly uncertain. The latest IPCC Sixth Assessment Report concluded that human influences on IOD variability are not robustly detected in observations and twenty-first century climate-model projections. Here, using millennial-length climate simulations, we disentangle forced response and internal variability in IOD change and show that greenhouse warming robustly suppresses IOD variability. On a century time scale, internal variability overwhelms the forced change in IOD, leading to a widespread response in IOD variability. This masking effect is mainly caused by a remote influence of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. However, on a millennial time scale, nearly all climate models show a long-term weakening trend in IOD variability by greenhouse warming. Our results provide compelling evidence for a human influence on the IOD.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38561343
doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-47276-7
pii: 10.1038/s41467-024-47276-7
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

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2811

Subventions

Organisme : National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)
ID : NRF-2018R1A5A1024958

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© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Soong-Ki Kim (SK)

Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Hyo-Jin Park (HJ)

Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Soon-Il An (SI)

Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. sian@yonsei.ac.kr.
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. sian@yonsei.ac.kr.
Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea. sian@yonsei.ac.kr.

Chao Liu (C)

Irreversible Climate Change Research Center, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Wenju Cai (W)

Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System/Physical Oceanography Laboratory/Sanya Oceanographic Institution, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China.
State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science & College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an, China.

Agus Santoso (A)

Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR), CSIRO, Hobart, Australia.
Climate Change Research Centre and Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
International CLIVAR Project Office, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.

Jong-Seong Kug (JS)

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

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