Table 1 Long-term trends of σconv (unit: °C/decade) in the past and future projected climate change, based on ERSSTv5, HadISST, and 20 CMIP6 models.

From: Differential expansion speeds of Indo-Pacific warm pool and deep convection favoring pool under greenhouse warming

Observation/models

1979–2020

1979–2014

2015–2100 (SSP1-2.6)

2015–2100 (SSP2-4.5)

2015–2100 (SSP5-8.5)

ERSSTv5

0.09

0.07

/

/

/

HadISST

0.07

0.04

/

/

/

CMIP6 Ensemble

/

0.15

0.07

0.17

0.36

CMIP6 Best

/

0.13

0.09

0.20

0.39

ACCESS-CM2

/

0.13

0.11

0.22

0.46

CAMS-CSM1-0

/

0.09

0.03

0.11

0.24

CAS-ESM2-0

/

0.16

0.12

0.23

0.40

CESM2-WACCM

/

0.13

0.09

0.22

0.46

CMCC-CM2-SR5

/

0.11

0.11

0.22

0.39

CMCC-ESM2

/

0.14

0.15

0.24

0.43

EC-Earth3

/

0.24

0.07

0.18

0.41

EC-Earth3-Veg

/

0.16

0.07

0.19

0.42

FGOALS-f3-L

/

0.15

0.04

0.15

0.33

FGOALS-g3

/

0.15

0.00*

0.11

0.27

GFDL-ESM4

/

0.16

0.03

0.13

0.30

INM-CM4-8

/

0.15

0.02

0.11

0.26

INM-CM5-0

/

0.14

0.03

0.10

0.25

IPSL-CM6A-LR

/

0.22

0.07

0.24

0.51

MIROC6

/

0.16

0.06

0.15

0.31

MPI-ESM1-2-HR

/

0.13

0.02

0.14

0.29

MPI-ESM1-2-LR

/

0.12

0.03

0.13

0.30

MRI-ESM2-0

/

0.10

0.06

0.17

0.35

NESM3

/

0.19

0.05

0.16

0.39

TaiESM1

/

0.19

0.15

0.25

0.44

  1. Bold texts denote the five models that could better capture the historical DCFPconv area trend. All trends are statistically significant at the 99.9% confidence level, except those marked with asterisks.