Increase of global monsoon area and precipitation under global warming: A robust signal?

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作者
Hsu, Pang-chi [1 ]
Li, Tim [1 ]
Luo, Jing-Jia [2 ]
Murakami, Hiroyuki [3 ,4 ]
Kitoh, Akio [4 ]
Zhao, Ming [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Int Pacific Res Ctr, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
[2] Ctr Australian Weather & Climate Res, Melbourne, Vic 3008, Australia
[3] Japan Agcy Marine Earth Sci & Technol, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
[4] Meteorol Res Inst, Climate Res Dept, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050052, Japan
[5] NOAA, Geophys Fluid Dynam Lab, Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; VARIABILITY; SIMULATIONS;
D O I
10.1029/2012GL051037
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
Monsoons, the most energetic tropical climate system, exert a great social and economic impact upon billions of people around the world. The global monsoon precipitation had an increasing trend over the past three decades. Whether or not this increasing trend will continue in the 21st century is investigated, based on simulations of three high-resolution atmospheric general circulation models that were forced by different future sea surface temperature (SST) warming patterns. The results show that the global monsoon area, precipitation and intensity all increase consistently among the model projections. This indicates that the strengthened global monsoon is a robust signal across the models and SST patterns explored here. The increase of the global monsoon precipitation is attributed to the increases of moisture convergence and surface evaporation. The former is caused by the increase of atmospheric water vapor and the latter is due to the increase of SST. The effect of the moisture and evaporation increase is offset to a certain extent by the weakening of the monsoon circulation. Citation: Hsu, P., T. Li, J.-J. Luo, H. Murakami, A. Kitoh, and M. Zhao (2012), Increase of global monsoon area and precipitation under global warming: A robust signal?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L06701, doi:10.1029/2012GL051037.
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