Decadal shifts of East Asian summer monsoon in a climate model free of explicit GHGs and aerosols.

ABSTRACT: The East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) experienced decadal transitions over the past few decades, and the associated "wetter-South-drier-North" shifts in rainfall patterns in China significantly affected the social and economic development in China. Two viewpoints stand out to explain these decadal shifts, regarding the shifts either a result of internal variability of climate system or that of external forcings (e.g. greenhouse gases (GHGs) and anthropogenic aerosols). However, most climate models, for example, the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP)-type simulations and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)-type simulations, fail to simulate the variation patterns, leaving the mechanisms responsible for these shifts still open to dispute. In this study, we conducted

SUBMITTER: Lin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5146936 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature