Historical changes in wind-driven ocean circulation drive pattern of Pacific warming

Abstract The tropical Pacific warming pattern since the 1950s exhibits two warming centers in the western Pacific (WP) and eastern Pacific (EP), encompassing an equatorial central Pacific (CP) cooling and a hemispheric asymmetry in the subtropical EP. The underlying mechanisms of this warming patter...

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Main Authors: Shuo Fu, Shineng Hu, Xiao-Tong Zheng, Kay McMonigal, Sarah Larson, Yiqun Tian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45677-2