Moisture and moist static energy budgets of South 1 Asian monsoon low pressure systems in GFDL AM 4 . 0

Intermodel spread of East Asian summer monsoon simulations in CMIP5

In this paper we diagnose the intermodel spread in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) simulations in the context of the moist static energy and moisture budgets. We find that the spatial distribution of the EASM precipitation simulated by different models is highly correlated with the meridional stationary eddy velocity, defined as the dev...

Moisture - vortex instability and the growth of South 1 Asian monsoon low - pressure systems

میانگین گردش جوی منجر به یخبندان های فراگیر در ایران

Introduction According to geographical location of Iran and relatively high elevation of most of its areas above sea-level, occurrence of frosts has many negative effects on different sections, such as agricultural, transportation and energy. Frosts are generally related to displacement and movement of cold anticyclones from northern latitudes to Iran. Wide range of synoptic characteristics is...

A moist model monsoon

A substantial literature takes it for granted that the prime reason for the great strength of the South Asian monsoon is the heating effect of the Tibetan plateau. On page 218 of this issue, Boos and Kuang show that what counts is the barrier posed by the mountains at the southern edge of the plateau, not the heating. This view has deep implications for our mechanistic understanding of this mon...

Nonlinear Effects of Coexisting Surface and Atmospheric Forcing of Anthropogenic Absorbing Aerosols: Impact on the South Asian Monsoon Onset

The direct radiative effect of absorbing aerosols consists of absorption-induced atmospheric heating together with scatteringand absorption-induced surface cooling. It is thus important to understand whether some of the reported climate impacts of anthropogenic absorbing aerosols are mainly due to the coexistence of these two opposite effects and to what extent the nonlinearity raised from such...