Tropical Indo-Pacific climate shifts to a more El Niño-like state
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 14 November, 2012
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Climate models predict a slowdown of the Walker circulation with global warming. Atmospheric models, however, have failed to reproduce the slowdown already observed over the last 60 years, casting doubt on their ability to simulate slow climate change. Now a study has succeeded in simulating the slowdown and shows that changes in the sea surface temperature pattern across the Indo-Pacific are the cause....