Volcanic and Solar Forcing of the Tropical Pacific over the Past 1000 Years
Top Cited Papers
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Climate
- Vol. 18 (3) , 447-456
- https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-3276.1
Abstract
The response of El Niño to natural radiative forcing changes over the past 1000 yr is investigated based on numerical experiments employing the Zebiak–Cane model of the tropical Pacific coupled ocean–atmosphere system. Previously published empirical results demonstrating a statistically significant tendency toward El Niño conditions in response to past volcanic radiative forcing are reproduced in the model experiments. A combination of responses to past changes in volcanic and solar radiative forcing closely reproduces changes in the mean state and interannual variability in El Niño in past centuries recorded from fossil corals. The dynamics of El Niño thus appear to have played an important role in the response of the global climate to past changes in radiative forcing.Keywords
This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
- Predictability of El Niño over the past 148 yearsNature, 2004
- Proxy evidence for an El Niño-like response to volcanic forcingNature, 2003
- El Niño/Southern Oscillation and tropical Pacific climate during the last millenniumNature, 2003
- Interdecadal modulation of Australian rainfallClimate Dynamics, 2002
- Suppression of El Niño during the Mid‐Holocene by changes in the Earth's orbitPaleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2000
- A transient climate change simulation with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing: experimental design and comparison with the instrumental record for the twentieth centuryClimate Dynamics, 2000
- Twentieth-Century Sea Surface Temperature TrendsScience, 1997
- An Ocean Dynamical ThermostatJournal of Climate, 1996
- ENSO signal in continental temperature and precipitation recordsNature, 1987
- ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS FROM THE EQUATORIAL PACIFIC1Monthly Weather Review, 1969