Impact of Atlantic multidecadal oscillations on India/Sahel rainfall and Atlantic hurricanes
Top Cited Papers
- 9 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 33 (17)
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2006gl026267
Abstract
Prominent multidecadal fluctuations of India summer rainfall, Sahel summer rainfall, and Atlantic Hurricane activity have been observed during the 20th century. Understanding their mechanism(s) will have enormous social and economic implications. We first use statistical analyses to show that these climate phenomena are coherently linked. Next, we use the GFDL CM2.1 climate model to show that the multidecadal variability in the Atlantic ocean can cause the observed multidecadal variations of India summer rainfall, Sahel summer rainfall and Atlantic Hurricane activity (as inferred from vertical wind shear changes). These results suggest that to interpret recent climate change we cannot ignore the important role of Atlantic multidecadal variability.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
- GFDL's CM2 Global Coupled Climate Models. Part I: Formulation and Simulation CharacteristicsJournal of Climate, 2006
- A tree‐ring based reconstruction of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation since 1567 A.D.Geophysical Research Letters, 2004
- The effect of millennial-scale changes in Arabian Sea denitrification on atmospheric CO2Nature, 2002
- The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and ImplicationsScience, 2001
- The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and its relation to rainfall and river flows in the continental U.S.Geophysical Research Letters, 2001
- Observed and simulated multidecadal variability in the Northern HemisphereClimate Dynamics, 2000
- Climate Trends Associated with Multidecadal Variability of Atlantic Hurricane ActivityPublished by Springer Nature ,1997
- Strong Association Between West African Rainfall and U.S. Landfall of Intense HurricanesScience, 1990
- Sahel rainfall and worldwide sea temperatures, 1901–85Nature, 1986
- Surface Thermal Boundary Condition for Ocean Circulation ModelsJournal of Physical Oceanography, 1971