Shang-Ping Xie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the cause of tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) sea surface temperature (SST) warming, increased tropical tropospheric temperature, an anomalous anticyclone over the subtropical northwest Pacific, and increased mei-yu-baiu rainfall over East Asia.

TL;DR: The results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to a La-Niña-like decadal cooling, and the multi-decadal warming trend is very likely to continue with greenhouse gas increase.

TL;DR: The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) events are often triggered by ENSO but can also occur independently, subject to eastern tropical preconditioning as mentioned in this paper, and the Indian Ocean has been discovered to have a much larger impact on climate variability than previously thought.

TL;DR: In this article, spatial variations in sea surface temperature (SST) and rainfall changes over the tropics are investigated based on ensemble simulations for the first half of the twenty-first century under the greenhouse gas emission scenario A1B with coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

TL;DR: Patterns of sea surface temperature variability on interannual and longer timescales result from a combination of atmospheric and oceanic processes, notably the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation.