Strengthening or weakening of the Walker circulation can highly influence the global
weather and climate variability by altering the location and strength of tropical heating.
Therefore, there is considerable interest in understanding the mechanisms that lead to the
trends in the Walker circulation intensity. Conventional wisdom indicates that a
strengthening or weakening of the Walker circulation is primarily controlled by
inhomogeneous sea surface temperature (SST) patterns across the tropical Pacific basin …

ScholarWorks@Hanyang University ERICA Campus: Land-sea thermal contrast determines
the trend of Walker circulation simulated in atmospheric general circulation models … Land-sea
thermal contrast determines the trend of Walker circulation simulated in atmospheric
general circulation models …