Trends in the atmospheric jet streams are emerging in observations and could be linked to tropical warming

T Woollings, M Drouard, CH O'Reilly… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
… studies described above suggests that this change is consistent with the dominant
influence of tropical warming on the jet streams, as opposed to the effects of Arctic warming. …

The jet stream and climate change

M Stendel, J Francis, R White, PD Williams… - Climate change, 2021 - Elsevier
… However, we note that, although a tropical upper-tropospheric warming hot spot is expected
from basic physical considerations, is present in climate model simulations of the future, and …

The impact of Arctic warming on the midlatitude jetstream: Can it? Has it? Will it?

EA Barnes, JA Screen - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… The tug-of-war on the jet-stream due to the differing effects of tropical warming and Arctic
warming suggests that Arctic warming has the potential to modulate the response of the …

The effect of summer tropical heating on the location and intensity of the extratropical westerly jet streams

S Yang, PJ Webster - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1990 - Wiley Online Library
tropical diabatic heating on the location and magnitude of the winter hemisphere subtropical
and extratropical westerly jet streams … wind and the tropical outgoing longwave radiation (…

Enhanced jet stream waviness induced by suppressed tropical Pacific convection during boreal summer

X Sun, Q Ding, SYS Wang, D Topál, Q Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… 1d and 2d), with especially large positive bias in the tropics. This is indicative of overestimated
tropical warming trends in current climate models under observed anthropogenic forcing …

Historical trends in the jet streams

CL Archer, K Caldeira - Geophysical Research Letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… , the sub-tropical jet weakened, whereas the polar jet strengthened. … warming), equivalent
to a poleward shift of the jet streams by 0.02–0.06 degrees/decade (given a 0.5 K of warming

Cloud‐radiative impact on the regional responses of the midlatitude jet streams and storm tracks to global warming

N Albern, A Voigt, JG Pinto - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… This includes amplified upper-tropospheric warming in the tropics (Figure 2a) and a
vertical expansion of the troposphere, which manifests in upward shifts of the upper-level …

The sensitivity of the jet stream response to climate change to radiative assumptions

Z Tan, O Lachmy, TA Shaw - Journal of Advances in Modeling …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… An intuitive fix for the excessive tropical warming is to impose the tropical cooling by
atmospheric circulation (diagnosed from EIA in the aquaplanet GCMs) as an ocean cooling term in …

Jet Stream Changes over Southeast Australia during the Early Cool Season in Response to Accelerated Global Warming

MS Speer, LM Leslie, J Hartigan - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
… The tropospheric jet streams link the influence of the El-Nino … During an El Niño event, the
warming of the tropicaljet stream moves equatorward, and the displaced jet stream affects the …

Weakening trend of the tropical easterly jet stream of the boreal summer monsoon season 1950–2009

B Abish, PV Joseph, OM Johannessen - Journal of Climate, 2013 - journals.ametsoc.org
… Recent research has reported that the tropical easterly jet stream (TEJ) of the boreal … Ocean
has warmed due to enhanced deep moist convection associated with the rapid warming of …