Local and Remote Impacts of Aerosol Species on Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in a GCM
Local and Remote Impacts of Aerosol Species on Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in a GCM
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DOI:
10.1175/jcli-d-15-0728.1
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发表时间:
2016-04
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Liang Guo;A. Turner;E. Highwood
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作者:
Liang Guo;A. Turner;E. Highwood
AbstractThe HadGEM2 AGCM is used to determine the most important anthropogenic aerosols in the Indian monsoon using experiments in which observed trends in individual aerosol species are imposed. Sulfur dioxide (SD) emissions are shown to impact rainfall more strongly than black carbon (BC) aerosols, causing reduced rainfall especially over northern India. Significant perturbations due to BC are not noted until its emissions are scaled up in a sensitivity test, resulting in rainfall increases over northern India due to the elevated heat pump mechanism, enhancing convection during the premonsoon, and bringing forward the monsoon onset. Second, the impact of anthropogenic aerosols is compared to that of increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations and observed sea surface temperature (SST) warming. The tropospheric temperature gradient driving the monsoon shows weakening when forced by either SD or imposed SST trends. However, the observed SST trend is dominated by warming in the deep tropics; when the componen...