The trends in land surface heat fluxes over global monsoon domains and their responses to monsoon and precipitation.

ABSTRACT: The climatology, trends and leading modes of land surface latent heat flux (LHF) and sensible heat flux (SHF) as well as their responses to monsoon and precipitation in global land monsoon domains are presented. During the past three decades, LHF and SHF have generally undergone a rising and decreasing trend (that is, (LHF+, SHF-)), respectively, in Asian, North African, Austrian, and South American monsoon domains. Moreover, the increasing rate of LHF was higher than the decreasing rate of SHF, which causes a decreased trend in Bowen ratio. Two other dominant trend patterns, (LHF-, SHF-) and (LHF+, SHF+), are observed in South African and South American monsoon domains, respectively. The trends in LHF and SHF are closely linked to increasing global monsoon intensity and precipitation, esp

SUBMITTER: Zeng J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113305 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature