Fig. 5: Schematic diagram showing that the present-day Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) constrains future tropical precipitation. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 5: Schematic diagram showing that the present-day Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) constrains future tropical precipitation.

From: Present-day warm pool constrains future tropical precipitation

Fig. 5

Shadings indicate future changes in sea surface temperature (SST) in the Northern Hemisphere and ocean temperature along the equatorial Pacific in the longitude-depth plane (averaged between 5°N–5°S) in climate models with a large IPWP size in the present-day. Vectors illustrate vertical motion. The purple box shows Central-Eastern Tropical Pacific (CETP) region and gray dashed lines represent the IPWP boundary in the present-day. Red text/arrows indicate the present climate, while blue text/arrows indicate changes in the future.

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