Fig. 1: SST trend (°C [100 yr]-1) from 1900-2013. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 1: SST trend (°C [100 yr]-1) from 1900-2013.

From: On the future zonal contrasts of equatorial Pacific climate: Perspectives from Observations, Simulations, and Theories

Fig. 1

A observation-based data and (B) 83 CMIP5 simulations from 41 models with historical radiative forcing; RCP future projection values are used after 2005. In (A), the SST reconstructions used for each panel are indicated on the y axis. Also in (A), the left column shows the unfiltered trend and the right column shows the trend with linear El Niño-Southern Oscillation dynamics removed using an optimal perturbation filter199. The numbers in (A) are the values of the trend in the SST difference between the two boxes, one over the western tropical Pacific, and the other over the eastern tropical Pacific. The range of the CMIP5 trends (oC/century) is shown in (C). These plots are adapted from ref. 23 which provides additional information on the data used.

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