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The Aqua-Planet Experiment (APE): Response to Changed Meridional SST Profile

2013

This paper explores the sensitivity of Atmospheric General Circulation Model (AGCM) simulations to changes in the meridional distribution of sea surface temperature (SST). The simulations are for an aqua-planet, a water covered Earth with no land, orography or sea- ice and with specified zonally symmetric SST. Simulations from 14 AGCMs developed for Numerical Weather Prediction and climate applications are compared. Four experiments are performed to study the sensitivity to the meridional SST profile. These profiles range from one in which the SST gradient continues to the equator to one which is flat approaching the equator, all with the same maximum SST at the equator. The zonal mean circ…

comparison of atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs)Atmospheric ScienceIntertropical Convergence ZoneEquator451Tropical waveOrographyZonal and meridionalprecipitationAtmospheric sciencesPhysics::GeophysicsLatitudeSea surface temperatureintertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)ClimatologyPhysics::Space PhysicsHadley cellHadley circulationsea surface temperature profilePhysics::Atmospheric and Oceanic PhysicsGeologyJournal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
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