Hadley Circulation Widening and Cloud-Area Changes
Quantifying the physical linkage between tropical expansion and cloud redistribution
Key Results
Hadley widening
+0.262 deg/decade
Storm track shift
+0.266 deg/decade
Midlat cloud trend
+0.172%/decade
Tropical cloud trend
-0.029%/decade
Hadley-Cloud corr.
r = 0.72
Hadley attribution
45.0%
Storm attribution
50.9%
Cloud Fraction Trends
Mechanism Attribution
Cross-Correlations