Phys.org August 25, 2023 Researchers in China reviewed recent advances in research regarding land–atmosphere coupling processes over the Tibetan Plate (TP) and concluded that climate warming has caused glacier retreat, permafrost degradation, and a general increase in vegetation density, while climate wetting has led to a significant increase in the number of major lakes, primarily through increased precipitation. The TP drives surface pollutants to the upper troposphere in an Asian summer monsoon (ASM) anticyclone circulation before spreading to the lower stratosphere. The thermal forcing of the TP plays an essential role in the ASM. TP forcing can modulate hemispheric-scale atmospheric […]
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Computing collaboration reveals global ripple effect of shifting monsoons
Phys.org June 29, 2020 An international team of researchers (USA – Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UCLA, Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Hong Kong, Nigeria, Senegal, Rwanda, Pakistan) used an ensemble of regional climate model (RCM) projections over seven regional CORDEX domains to provide an elaborate set of projections to date that illustrates possible futures for major monsoon regions. Each simulation covers the period from 1970 through 2100. They found that the weakening of latent heat driven atmospheric warming during the pre-monsoon period delays the overturning of atmospheric subsidence in the monsoon regions, which defers their transitioning into deep convective states. This causes […]