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Recent studies have shown that global warming and associated sea-surface temperature (SST) changes may trigger an important rainfall increase in southeastern South America (SESA) during the austral summer (December-January-February, DJF). The goal of this paper is to provide some insight into processes which may link global and SESA changes. For this purpose, a "two-way nesting" system coupling interactively the regional and global versions of the LMDZ4 atmospheric model is used to study the response to prescribed SST changes. The regional model is a variable-grid version of the global model, with a zoom focused over South America. An ensemble of simulations forced by distinct patterns of DJF SST changes has been carried out using a decomposition of full SST changes into their longitudinal and latitudinal components. The full SST changes are based on projections for the end of the twenty-first century from a multi-model ensemble of WCRP/CMIP3. Results confirm the presence of a major rainfall dipole structure, characterized by an increase in SESA and a decrease in the South Atlantic Convergence Zone region. Rainfall changes found in the WCRP/CMIP3 models are largely explained as a response of this dipole structure to the zonally-asymmetric (or longitudinal) component of SST changes. The rainfall response to the zonal-mean (or latitudinal) SST changes (including the global warming signal itself) shows an opposite contribution. The processes explaining the role of zonally-asymmetric SST changes involve remote effects of SST warming over the equatorial Indian and Pacific oceans inducing an atmospheric wave-train extended across the South Pacific into South America. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Impact of projected SST changes on summer rainfall in southeastern South America
Autor:Junquas, C.; Vera, C.S.; Li, L.; Le Treut, H.
Filiación:Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, UPMC/CNRS, Paris, France
Centro de Investigaciones Del Mar y la Atmosfera (CIMA/CONICET-UBA), DCAO/FCEN, UMI IFAECI/CNRS, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Climate change; Rainfall changes; Sea surface temperature projections; South America climate; Two-way nesting system; atmospheric modeling; atmospheric transport; climate modeling; convergence; global warming; rainfall; sea surface temperature; summer; twenty first century; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantic Ocean (South); Indian Ocean; Indian Ocean (Equatorial); Pacific Ocean; Pacific Ocean (Equatorial); South America
Año:2013
Volumen:40
Número:7-8
Página de inicio:1569
Página de fin:1589
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1695-y
Título revista:Climate Dynamics
Título revista abreviado:Clim. Dyn.
ISSN:09307575
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09307575_v40_n7-8_p1569_Junquas

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Junquas, C., Vera, C.S., Li, L. & Le Treut, H. (2013) . Impact of projected SST changes on summer rainfall in southeastern South America. Climate Dynamics, 40(7-8), 1569-1589.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1695-y
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Junquas, C., Vera, C.S., Li, L., Le Treut, H. "Impact of projected SST changes on summer rainfall in southeastern South America" . Climate Dynamics 40, no. 7-8 (2013) : 1569-1589.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1695-y
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Junquas, C., Vera, C.S., Li, L., Le Treut, H. "Impact of projected SST changes on summer rainfall in southeastern South America" . Climate Dynamics, vol. 40, no. 7-8, 2013, pp. 1569-1589.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1695-y
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Junquas, C., Vera, C.S., Li, L., Le Treut, H. Impact of projected SST changes on summer rainfall in southeastern South America. Clim. Dyn. 2013;40(7-8):1569-1589.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-1695-y