dc.contributor.author | Haywood, James M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jones, Andy | |
dc.contributor.author | Dunstone, Nick | |
dc.contributor.author | Milton, Sean | |
dc.contributor.author | Vellinga, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro | |
dc.contributor.author | Hawcroft, Matt | |
dc.contributor.author | Kravitz, Ben | |
dc.contributor.author | Cole, Jason | |
dc.contributor.author | Watanabe, Shingo | |
dc.contributor.author | Stephens, Graeme | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-02T11:08:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | ©2015. The Authors. The Earth's hemispheric reflectances are equivalent to within±0.2Wm-2, even though the Northern Hemisphere contains a greater proportion of higher reflectance land areas, because of greater cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. This equivalence is unlikely to be by chance, but the reasons are open to debate. Here we show that equilibrating hemispheric albedos in the Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 2-Earth System coupled climate model significantly improves what have been considered longstanding and apparently intractable model biases. Monsoon precipitation biases over all continental land areas, the penetration of monsoon rainfall across the Sahel, the West African monsoon "jump", and indicators of hurricane frequency are all significantly improved. Mechanistically, equilibrating hemispheric albedos improves the atmospheric cross-equatorial energy transport and increases the supply of tropical atmospheric moisture to the Hadley cell. We conclude that an accurate representation of the cross-equatorial energy transport appears to be critical if tropical performance is to be improved. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Volume 43, Issue 1 16 January 2016 Pages 395–403 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/2015GL066903 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19510 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | American Geophysical Union | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | http://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/agu/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291944-8007/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | hemispheric albedo | en_GB |
dc.subject | HadGEM2-ES | en_GB |
dc.subject | tropical precipitation | en_GB |
dc.subject | hurricane frequency | en_GB |
dc.subject | couple climate models | en_GB |
dc.title | The impact of equilibrating hemispheric albedos on tropical performance in the HadGEM2-ES coupled climate model | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-02T11:08:00Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0094-8276 | |
dc.description | Accepted | en_GB |
dc.description | Article in Press | en_GB |
dc.description | ©2015. The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1944-8007 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Geophysical Research Letters | en_GB |