Reconciling opposite trends in the observed and simulated equatorial Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient

Abstract The reasons for large discrepancies between observations and simulations, as well as for uncertainties in projections of the equatorial Pacific zonal sea surface temperature (SST) gradient, are controversial. We used CMIP6 models and large ensemble simulations to show that model bias and in...

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Published in:	Geoscience Letters
Main Authors:	Wenrong Bai, Hailong Liu, Pengfei Lin, Xichen Li, Fan Wang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SpringerOpen 2023-11-01
Subjects:	Equatorial Pacific zonal sea surface temperature gradient CMIP6 Large ensemble simulations Model bias Internal variabilities Projection
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-023-00309-3

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