This work found that FGOALS-g2 (FGOALS-s2) projects a La Ni？a-like (an El Ni？o-like) mean warming pattern with weakest (strongest) warming over the central (eastern) equatorial Pacific for 2081–2100 relative to 1986–2005 under RCP8.5. A mixed layer heat budget analysis shows that the main differences in the heating terms contributing to the SST changes between the two models are seen in the downward longwave radiation and ocean forcing.

Citation: Zhang, L.-X., and T.-J. Zhou, 2015: Different warming patterns of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature projected by FGOALS-g2 and FGOALS-s2 under RCP8.5, Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett., 8, doi:10.3878/APSL20140070.

Geopotential distribution of the climatological annual mean SST (units: °C) in (a) FGOALS-g2 and (b) FGOALS-s2 for 1986–2005. Panels (c, d) are the same as (a, b), but for the projected SST changes in 2081–2100 with respect to 1986–2005 under RCP8.5. Panels (e, f) are the same as (c, d), but for projected precipitation changes (units: mm d^？1).

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