Equatorial upwelling is 10x faster than I thought

Published today in the Journal of Climate, my rather long paper shows that the average upwelling in the equatorial Pacific is 13.1 ± 6.9 meters per day. This is much faster than historical estimates and the latest generation of global climate models.

I propose that the relatively slow simulated upwelling contributes to the mismatch between simulated and observed sea surface temperature trends in the equatorial Pacific with important implications for future climate projections.

Click here for a nice press release written by Stephanie Maltarich of CIRES Communications.