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Irreversible changes in the sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection to CO2 forcing
| Year of publication | 2024 | |||||
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| Title of paper | Irreversible changes in the sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection to CO2 forcing | |||||
| Author | In-Hong Park, Sang-Wook Yeh, Seung-Ki Min, Soon-Il An, Shang-Ping Xie, Jongsoo Shin | |||||
| Publication in journal | Communications Earth & Environment | |||||
| Status of publication | published | |||||
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Tropical convection plays a critical role in modulating the global climate by influencing climate variability. However, its future projection under climate mitigation scenarios remains uncertain. Here, we found that while the relationship between precipitation intensity and upward motion remains constant regardless of changing CO2 concentrations, the sea surface temperature threshold for tropical convection and the convective zone exhibit hysteretic and irreversible behavior. As the CO2 concentration decreases from its peak (ramp-down), higher tropical ocean temperature leads to higher sea surface temperature thresholds for convection than during the period of increasing CO2 concentration (ramp-up), while convective instability remains the same during both ramp-up and ramp-down. El Niño-like warming during the ramp-down leads to a weakening of the Walker circulation and an expansion of the convective …