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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">NHESSD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">NHESSD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2195-9269</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/nhess-2016-83</article-id>
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<article-title>Sensitivity study of the tropical Pacific precipitation anomalies</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Shouwen</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Jiang</surname>
<given-names>Hua</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Hui</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Du</surname>
<given-names>Ling</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3774-9045</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Dakui</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>National Marine Environment Forecasting Center, State  Oceanic Administration, Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Key Laboratory of Research on Marine Hazards Forecasting, National Marine Environmental Forecasting  Center, Beijing 100081, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Oceanography, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>18</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<volume>2016</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>11</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2016 Shouwen Zhang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2016</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Climate model results have shown that precipitation in the tropical Pacific Ocean will change up to 15 % and 25 % in one century. In this paper, both reanalysis data and climate model are used to study the response of global ocean and atmosphere to precipitation anomalies in the tropical Pacific Ocean. It shows that positive precipitation anomalies could trigger an El Nino-like SSTA response, with warmer SST in the east tropical Pacific Ocean and slightly cooler SST in the west tropical Pacific Ocean. The zonal tropical ocean currents change significantly, of which the magnitudes and directions are mainly relying on the intensity of the precipitation anomalies.  Through a wave train encompassing the whole Northern Hemisphere named as the Circumglobal Waveguide Pattern (CWP), the North Atlantic atmospheric circulation responds to the freshwater anomalies in a NAO-like pattern. The anomalous atmospheric circulation transport sea ice to the North Atlantic Ocean. The sea ice melts in summer and freshen the upper ocean, which makes the ocean more stable. It thus constrains vertical heat transport and makes the upper water cooler, forming a significant positive feedback mechanism.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
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