Fig. 4: CO2-forced large-scale climate pattern changes. | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science

Fig. 4: CO2-forced large-scale climate pattern changes.

From: Enhanced shortwave absorption by water vapor increases effective climate sensitivity via accelerated AMOC recovery

Fig. 4

The response to 4xCO2 in the 1.0X case for a surface temperature (Ts), b zonal mean atmospheric temperature (Ta, shading) and zonal wind (U, westerly/easterly anomalies in solid/dashed lines, with the contour interval (CI) of 0.5 m s−1), and c zonal mean atmospheric meridional stream function (ψ, shading) and its climatology (clockwise/anti-clockwise in solid/dashed contours, with the CI of 2 ×1010 kg s−1). d–f Similar to (a–c), but for the difference between the two cases (1.2X–0.6X). The CI is 0.2 m s−1 in (e) and 2 ×1010 kg s−1 in (f). Hatching indicates the regions with the response insignificant at 95% confidence level based on the two-sided t test.

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