Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities
This study investigates mechanisms and nonlinearities in the response of the Asian Summer Monsoons (ASM) to high-latitude thermal forcings of different amplitudes. Using a suite of runs carried out with an intermediate-complexity atmospheric general circulation model, we find that the imposed forcin...
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ftdatacite:10.34657/5901 2023-05-15T15:00:41+02:00 Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities Talento, Stefanie Osborn, Timothy J. Joshi, Manoj Ratna, Satyaban B. Luterbacher, Jürg 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.34657/5901 https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/6854 unknown Berlin Heidelberg : Springer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Asian Monsoons High-latitude forcing Nonlinear Slab model 550 CreativeWork article 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.34657/5901 2022-03-10T12:44:35Z This study investigates mechanisms and nonlinearities in the response of the Asian Summer Monsoons (ASM) to high-latitude thermal forcings of different amplitudes. Using a suite of runs carried out with an intermediate-complexity atmospheric general circulation model, we find that the imposed forcings produce a strong precipitation response over the eastern ASM but a rather weak response over the southern ASM. The forcing also causes a precipitation dipole with wet conditions over the eastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) and dry conditions over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and southeast Asia. A moderate increase of precipitation along the southern margin of the TP is also produced. Simulations designed to isolate the causal mechanisms show that thermodynamic interactions involving the tropical surface oceans are far less important than the water-vapour feedback for the transmission of information from the high-latitudes to the ASM. Additionally, we assess the nonlinearity of the ASM precipitation response to the forcing amplitude using a novel application of the empirical orthogonal function method. The response can be decomposed in two overlapping patterns. The first pattern represents a precipitation dipole with wet conditions over the eastern TP and dry conditions over BoB, which linearly increases with forcing amplitude becoming quasi-stationary for large forcing amplitudes (i.e. amplitudes leading to Arctic temperature anomalies larger than 10 °C). The second pattern is associated with increased precipitation over the southeastern TP and is nonlinearly dependent on forcing, being most important for intermediate forcing amplitudes (i.e. amplitudes leading to Arctic temperature anomalies between 5 and 10 °C). © 2020, The Author(s). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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This study investigates mechanisms and nonlinearities in the response of the Asian Summer Monsoons (ASM) to high-latitude thermal forcings of different amplitudes. Using a suite of runs carried out with an intermediate-complexity atmospheric general circulation model, we find that the imposed forcings produce a strong precipitation response over the eastern ASM but a rather weak response over the southern ASM. The forcing also causes a precipitation dipole with wet conditions over the eastern Tibetan Plateau (TP) and dry conditions over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and southeast Asia. A moderate increase of precipitation along the southern margin of the TP is also produced. Simulations designed to isolate the causal mechanisms show that thermodynamic interactions involving the tropical surface oceans are far less important than the water-vapour feedback for the transmission of information from the high-latitudes to the ASM. Additionally, we assess the nonlinearity of the ASM precipitation response to the forcing amplitude using a novel application of the empirical orthogonal function method. The response can be decomposed in two overlapping patterns. The first pattern represents a precipitation dipole with wet conditions over the eastern TP and dry conditions over BoB, which linearly increases with forcing amplitude becoming quasi-stationary for large forcing amplitudes (i.e. amplitudes leading to Arctic temperature anomalies larger than 10 °C). The second pattern is associated with increased precipitation over the southeastern TP and is nonlinearly dependent on forcing, being most important for intermediate forcing amplitudes (i.e. amplitudes leading to Arctic temperature anomalies between 5 and 10 °C). © 2020, The Author(s). |
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Talento, Stefanie Osborn, Timothy J. Joshi, Manoj Ratna, Satyaban B. Luterbacher, Jürg |
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Talento, Stefanie Osborn, Timothy J. Joshi, Manoj Ratna, Satyaban B. Luterbacher, Jürg |
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Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities |
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Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities |
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Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities |
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Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities |
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Response of the Asian summer Monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities |
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response of the asian summer monsoons to a high-latitude thermal forcing: mechanisms and nonlinearities |
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