{"id":665,"date":"2020-05-23T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/?page_id=665"},"modified":"2020-05-24T20:45:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:45:57","slug":"tropical-width-and-jet-trends","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/research\/tropical-width-and-jet-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Width and Jet Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The width of the tropical circulation is a fundamental aspect of Earth&#8217;s climate, with potential societal impacts (e.g. through changes in precipitation). Recent evidence has shown that the edge of the tropics has been expanding, but with a large range in expansion rates between studies. We are examining the relationships between different metrics of tropical expansion, and the possible causes for expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Menzel, M.E., D. W. Waugh, K. Grise, 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2019GL083345\">Relationships between the Hadley Cell and Subtropical Jet<\/a>, <em>Geophys. Res. Lett.<\/em>, 46, 7045-7053.<\/li><li>Grise, K., S.M. Davis, I. R. Simpson, D. W. Waugh, Q. Fu, R.J. Allen, K.H. Rosenlof, C.C. Ummenhofer, K.B. Karnuaskas, A.C. Maycock, X. Quan, T. Birner, and P.W. Staten, 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-18-0444.1\">Recent Tropical Expansion: Natural Variability or Forced Response?<\/a> <em>J Climate,<\/em> doi.org\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-18-0444.1<\/li><li>Waugh, D.W. M. Grise, W. J. M. Seviour, S.M. Davis, N. Davis, O. Adam, S.-W. Son, I R Simpson, P. W. Staten, A. C. Maycock, C.C. Ummenhofer, T. Birner , and A. Ming, 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1175\/JCLI-D-18-0108.1\">Revisiting the Relationship among Metrics of Tropical Expansion<\/a>, <em>J Climate,<\/em> 18,\u00a07565\u20137581.<\/li><li>Waugh, D.W, C.I. Garfinkel, L.M. Polvani, 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/files\/2015\/08\/Waugh_etal_2015.pdf\">Drivers of the recent tropical expansion in the Southern Hemisphere: Changing SSTs or ozone depletion? <\/a>J Climate, 28, 6581-6588.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See more <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/publications\/papers-by-theme\/#tropics\">tropical width and jet trends papers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The width of the tropical circulation is a fundamental aspect of Earth&#8217;s climate, with potential societal impacts (e.g. through changes in precipitation). Recent evidence has shown that the edge of the tropics has been expanding, but with a large range in expansion rates between studies. We are examining the relationships between different metrics of tropical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-665","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/665\/revisions\/723"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.krieger.jhu.edu\/waugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}