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eastern Pacific. This `dynamical thermostat' will lead to overall conditions resembling
those observed during La Nin as, eventually retarding global warming.
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Ä Increased El Nino frequency in a climate model forced by future greenhouse warming
A. Timmermann, J. Oberhuber*, A. Bacher, M. Esch, M. Latif & E. Roeckner
È Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie and * Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
model with suf®cient resolution in the tropics to adequately represent the narrow equatorial upwelling and low-frequency waves. When the model is forced by a realistic future scenario of increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations, more frequent ElÄ Nino-like conditions and stronger cold events in the tropical Paci®c Ocean result. Our global climate model8,9 uses a meridional resolution of 0.58 in the tropics. The model, which is `¯ux corrected', simulates an irregular ENSO cycle similar to the observed one, and the amplitude and dynamics of the simulated ENSO cycle are consistent with those derived from observations8,9. The simulated ENSO period is too short, however, and amounts to about two years, whereas observations indicate a main period of about four years. Our model successfully predicted the onset and decline of the 1997/1998 El Ä Nino several months in advance10. Here, two experiments were performed. The ®rst experiment is a 300-year-long control integration with ®xed present-day atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. The second experiment is a transient greenhouse warming simulation in which the model was forced by increasing levels of greenhouse gases as observed (1860±1990) and according to IPCC scenario IS92a11 (1990±2100). The changes in the mean state at the surface of the tropical Paci®c Ocean, as derived from the transient greenhouse warming simulation, are reminiscent of the anomalous climate state observed Ä during present-day El Nino conditions (Fig. 1). The sea-surfacetemperature (SST) trend pattern is characterized by strongest warming in the equatorial east Paci®c, accompanied by westerly near-surface wind anomalies in the equatorial region to the west of the maximum warming and strong equatorward ¯ow off the Equator (not shown). The associated trend in rainfall is rather Ä similar to that simulated during present-day El Ninos (not shown). There has been some discussion about the relative roles of different feedbacks involved in the time-mean response of the tropical Paci®c climate system to greenhouse warming. On the one hand, it has been suggested that regional differences in the cloud-albedo feedback will lead to surface warming that is strongest in the equatorial east Paci®c12. The argument is that the equatorial west Paci®c is so warm that even modest additional warming would lead to a cloud shielding effect, with high cirrus clouds, reducing incoming solar radiation at the surface and inhibiting further warming13. This `thermostat' would be less ef®cient in the eastern equatorial Paci®c, so it would warm more than the western Paci®c. This would lead to a slackening of the winds along the Equator and
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Ä The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon is the strongest natural interannual climate ¯uctuation1. ENSO originates in the tropical Paci®c Ocean and has large effects on the ecology of the region, but it also in¯uences the entire global climate system and affects the societies and economies of many countries2. ENSO can be understood as an irregular lowÄ frequency oscillation between a warm (El Nino) and a cold (La Ä Ä Nina) state. The strong El Ninos of 1982/1983 and 1997/1998, Ä along with the more frequent occurrences of El Ninos during the past few decades, raise the question of whether human-induced `greenhouse' warming affects, or will affect, ENSO3. Several global climate models have been applied to transient greenhouse-gasinduced warming simulations to address this question4±6, but the results have been debated owing to the inability of the models to fully simulate ENSO (because of their coarse equatorial resolution)7. Here we present results from a global climate
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