Buckley, M. W., R. M. Ponte, G. Forget, and P. Heimbach, 2014b: Determining the origins of advective heat transport variability in the North Atlantic. (usclivar.org)
The ratio ɛ = H / L between vertical extent H of the lower troposphere and the horizontal scale L of the region of precipitation (Fig. 1) enters because of the balance of the horizontal advective heat transport and the vertical fluxes of net radiative influx R and precipitation P. (pnas.org)
Raypierre, according to Wang and Key in Science (unfortunately under subscription): «Are these changes due to large - scale advective processes rather than to local radiative effects? (realclimate.org)