AGS-PRF: Advancing Understanding of Monsoons by Bridging Gaps among Disparate Theoretical Perspectives

这个项目将研究季风现象。设想的更广泛的影响是多方面的，包括参与现有的K-12和本科生研究指导和教学的外联活动。PI也有一个强烈的感觉，需要数据和计算机代码/脚本的传播，并建议开发一种工具，以促进这种智力产品exchanges.Limitations的季风环流的现有理论治疗已注意到在以前的文献中，这些理论完全失败的几个例子已经记录在案，但到目前为止，还没有系统的尝试，打破理论。利用理想化的大气环流模式，本项目的工作将确定现有季风理论失效的条件。新的理论见解将被应用于气候模型模拟过去和未来的气候，以改善约束季风行为在古气候和未来几十年。

This project will study the monsoon phenomenon. The broader impacts envisioned are multifaceted, including participation in existing outreach activities for K-12 and undergraduate research mentoring and teaching. The PI also has a strong sense of the need for data and computer code/script dissemination and proposes to develop a tool to facilitate this kind of intellectual product exchange.Limitations of the existing theoretical treatments of monsoon circulations have been noted in prior literature, and a few examples of those theories failing entirely have been documented, but as of yet there has been no systematic attempt to break the theories. Using idealized general circulation models, effort under this project will identify conditions under which existing monsoon theories break down. New theoretical insights will be applied to climate model simulations of past and future climates in order to improve constraints on monsoon behavior in paleoclimates and in the coming decades.