An improvement on the dust emission scheme in the global aerosol-climate model ECHAM5-HAM T. Cheng, Y. Peng, J. Feichter, and I. Tegen Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstr. 53, 20146, Hamburg, Germany Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstrasse 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China Ca...

Observations indicate that the Atlantic zonal mode influences El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific, as already suggested in previous studies. Here we demonstrate for the first time using partial coupled experiments that the Atlantic zonal mode indeed influences ENSO. The partial coupling experiments are performed by forcing the coupled general circulation model (ECHAM5/MPI-OM) wit...