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Common and Distinct Drivers of Convective Mass Flux and Walker Circulation Changes
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
25 february 2025
Sarah M. Kang, Masahiro Watanabe, Veronika Gayler
The weakening of convective mass flux and the Walker circulation is one of the most robust responses to global warming. However, recent decades hav...
Global-scale Southern Ocean Impact Mediated by Stratocumulus Cloud Feedback
CLIMATE SENSITIVITY AND FEEDBACKS: ADVANCES AND NEW PARADIGMS I ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 11 december 2024
Sarah M. Kang
Observed Southern Ocean cooling has been proposed to have contributed to the recent strengthening of climate feedback by enhancing positive stratocumu...
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Sea surface temperature trend discrepancies impact Southern Hemisphere extratropical circulation trends
PACIFIC ATMOSPHERIC TELECONNECTIONS: DYNAMICS, IMPACTS, AND FUTURE PROJECTIONS I ORAL
global environmental change | 11 december 2024
Joonsuk Kang, Tiffany Shaw, Sarah M. Kang, Isla Si...
State-of-the-art coupled climate models fail to capture the observed historical sea surface temperature (SST) trends in the tropical Pacific and South...
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Long‐Term Changes in Salinity in the South China Sea Due To Anthropogenic Forcing
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: OCEANS
10 december 2024
Yue Wu, Xiao-Tong Zheng, Hai Wang, Fukai Liu, Sara...
Changes in ocean salinity are essential for the stratification of the upper ocean and the regional marine ecosystem. In this study, 10 sets of larg...
Climate Models Underestimate Satellite Era Land-ocean Warming Contrast in the Tropics
REGIONAL CLIMATE: MODELING, ANALYSIS, AND IMPACTS II ORAL
global environmental change | 10 december 2024
Masaki Toda, Sarah M. Kang, Tiffany Shaw
General circulation models (GCM) have been shown to capture the observed global mean temperature trend. In this study, we examine the performance of C...
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Methane’s Impact on Historical Climate Change: Less Significant Than Anticipated
FORCINGS, RESPONSES, AND FEEDBACKS IN THE EARTH SYSTEM I ORAL
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Masaki Toda, Sarah M. Kang, Tiffany Shaw
According to the IPCC AR6 report, methane (CH4) is the second-largest contributor to observed climate change, contributing about 60% as much as carbon...
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Understanding hemispherically asymmetric storminess trends
HEMISPHERIC (A)SYMMETRIES IN EARTH’S CLIMATE POSTER
global environmental change | 09 december 2024
Tiffany Shaw, Joonsuk Kang, Osamu Miyawaki, Aaron ...
A defining feature of Earths present-day climate is that the Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern Hemisphere. For many generations climat...
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Quantifying Changes in the Arctic Shortwave Cloud Radiative Effects
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: ATMOSPHERES
10 august 2024
Doyeon Kim, Sarah M. Kang, Hanjun Kim, Patrick C. ...
The shortwave cloud radiative effect (SWCRE) is important for the Arctic surface radiation budget and is a major source of inter‐model spread...