Large-scale circulations and Tibetan Plateau summer drought and wetness in a high-resolution climate model
Extratropical and tropical influences on Tibetan Plateau severe and extreme dry and wet summer months are investigated focussing on the large-scale circulation and using results of the coupled climate model ECHAM5/MPI-OM. A pre-industrial control run and scenario runs for the 4th Assessment Report o...
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ftpubman:oai:pure.mpg.de:item_993646 2023-08-27T04:10:45+02:00 Large-scale circulations and Tibetan Plateau summer drought and wetness in a high-resolution climate model Bothe, O. Fraedrich, K. Zhu, X. 2011 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F57E-8 http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-42B6-D eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1002/joc.2124 http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-F57E-8 http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000B-42B6-D International Journal of Climatology info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2011 ftpubman https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.2124 2023-08-02T01:19:14Z Extratropical and tropical influences on Tibetan Plateau severe and extreme dry and wet summer months are investigated focussing on the large-scale circulation and using results of the coupled climate model ECHAM5/MPI-OM. A pre-industrial control run and scenario runs for the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are considered. Tibetan Plateau precipitation in months of wetness and drought is related to atmospheric circulation anomalies in the North-Atlantic/European sector and to sea surface temperature anomalies in the Tropics. Drought on the Tibetan Plateau is associated with a pronounced wave train bridging Eurasia from the North Atlantic to Asia. Increased transient eddy activity in the North Atlantic storm track has a more south-west to north-east orientation. This supports a high pressure anomaly over the eastern North Atlantic and Scandinavia which excites a cross Eurasian wave train reducing the moisture inflow to the Tibetan Plateau from the Arabian Sea. A concurrent warming in the tropical Indian Ocean increases the low level monsoonal westerlies deviating the moisture transport from the Bay of Bengal towards the Indochinese Peninsula and the Philippines. Wetness on the Tibetan Plateau is dominated by a cooling in the tropical oceans, whereas atmospheric flow is predominantly zonal in the extratropics of North America and Europe. Thus, moisture inflow can reach the Tibetan Plateau via the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the mid-latitude westerlies. Future scenarios show little change of atmospheric flow composites for wetness and dryness; the Tibetan Plateau droughts increase by 10% for an A1B-scenario, while extreme wet summer months are reduced by approximately 1%. © 2010 Royal Meteorological Society. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Max Planck Society: MPG.PuRe Indian International Journal of Climatology 31 6 832 846 |
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Extratropical and tropical influences on Tibetan Plateau severe and extreme dry and wet summer months are investigated focussing on the large-scale circulation and using results of the coupled climate model ECHAM5/MPI-OM. A pre-industrial control run and scenario runs for the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are considered. Tibetan Plateau precipitation in months of wetness and drought is related to atmospheric circulation anomalies in the North-Atlantic/European sector and to sea surface temperature anomalies in the Tropics. Drought on the Tibetan Plateau is associated with a pronounced wave train bridging Eurasia from the North Atlantic to Asia. Increased transient eddy activity in the North Atlantic storm track has a more south-west to north-east orientation. This supports a high pressure anomaly over the eastern North Atlantic and Scandinavia which excites a cross Eurasian wave train reducing the moisture inflow to the Tibetan Plateau from the Arabian Sea. A concurrent warming in the tropical Indian Ocean increases the low level monsoonal westerlies deviating the moisture transport from the Bay of Bengal towards the Indochinese Peninsula and the Philippines. Wetness on the Tibetan Plateau is dominated by a cooling in the tropical oceans, whereas atmospheric flow is predominantly zonal in the extratropics of North America and Europe. Thus, moisture inflow can reach the Tibetan Plateau via the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the mid-latitude westerlies. Future scenarios show little change of atmospheric flow composites for wetness and dryness; the Tibetan Plateau droughts increase by 10% for an A1B-scenario, while extreme wet summer months are reduced by approximately 1%. © 2010 Royal Meteorological Society. |
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Large-scale circulations and Tibetan Plateau summer drought and wetness in a high-resolution climate model |
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Large-scale circulations and Tibetan Plateau summer drought and wetness in a high-resolution climate model |
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