Tropical Warm Pool

The Tropical Warm Pool (TWP) or Indo-Pacific Warm Pool is a mass of ocean water located in the western Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean which consistently exhibits the highest water temperatures over the largest expanse of the Earth's surface.[1] Its intensity and extent appear to oscillate over a time period measured in decades.[2]

The Indo-Pacific warm pool has been warming rapidly and expanding during the recent decades, largely from climate change in response to increased carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning.[3] The warm pool expanded double its size, from an area of 22 million km2 during 1900–1980, to an area of 40 million km2 during 1981–2018.[4] This expansion of the warm pool has allowed more cyclones, as well as altered global rainfall patterns and variations , by changing the life cycle of the Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO), which is the most dominant mode of weather fluctuation originating in the tropics.[4][5]

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References
  1. USGS News Release Jan. 28, 2011
  2. NASA: "Reverberations of the Pacific Warm Pool"
  3. Weller, Evan; Min, Seung-Ki; Cai, Wenju; Zwiers, Francis W.; Kim, Yeon-Hee; Lee, Donghyun (2016-07-01). "Human-caused Indo-Pacific warm pool expansion". Science Advances. 2 (7): e1501719. Bibcode:2016SciA....2E1719W. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1501719. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 4942332. PMID 27419228.
  4. Roxy, M. K.; Dasgupta, Panini; McPhaden, Michael J.; Suematsu, Tamaki; Zhang, Chidong; Kim, Daehyun (November 2019). "Twofold expansion of the Indo-Pacific warm pool warps the MJO life cycle". Nature. 575 (7784): 647–651. Bibcode:2019Natur.575..647R. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1764-4. ISSN 1476-4687. OSTI 1659516. PMID 31776488. S2CID 208329374.
  5. "Warm pool expansion warps MJO – Climate Research Lab, CCCR, IITM". Retrieved 2019-11-29.


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