| Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent | |
| Dong, WH (Dong, Wenhao)1,2; Lin, YL (Lin, Yanluan)1,2; Wright, JS (Wright, Jonathon S.)1,2; Ming, Y (Ming, Yi)3; Xie, YY (Xie, Yuanyu)1,2; Wang, B (Wang, Bin)1,2,4; Luo, Y (Luo, Yong)1,2; Huang, WY (Huang, Wenyu)1,2; Huang, JB (Huang, Jianbin)1,2; Wang, L (Wang, Lei)5,6; Tian, LD (Tian, Lide)5,6; Peng, YR (Peng, Yiran)1,2; Xu, FH (Xu, Fanghua)1,2; Lin, YL | |
| Source Publication | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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| 2016 | |
| Volume | 7Issue:0Pages:10925 |
| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms10925 |
| Abstract | Despite the importance of precipitation and moisture transport over the Tibetan Plateau for glacier mass balance, river runoff and local ecology, changes in these quantities remain highly uncertain and poorly understood. Here we use observational data and model simulations to explore the close relationship between summer rainfall variability over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau (SWTP) and that over central-eastern India (CEI), which exists despite the separation of these two regions by the Himalayas. We show that this relationship is maintained primarily by 'up-and-over' moisture transport, in which hydrometeors and moisture are lifted by convective storms over CEI and the Himalayan foothills and then swept over the SWTP by the mid-tropospheric circulation, rather than by upslope flow over the Himalayas. Sensitivity simulations confirm the importance of up-and-over transport at event scales, and an objective storm classification indicates that this pathway accounts for approximately half of total summer rainfall over the SWTP. |
| Subject Area | 自然地理学 |
| WOS ID | WOS:000371720600001 |
| Language | 英语 |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Keyword | South Asian Monsoon Global Precipitation Climate Variability Water Model Reanalysis Impacts Systems Origin |
| Cooperation Status | 国际 |
| Department | 环境 |
| Subtype | Article |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.itpcas.ac.cn/handle/131C11/7753 |
| Collection | 图书馆 |
| Corresponding Author | Lin, YL |
| Affiliation | 1.Tsinghua Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Earth Syst Modeling, Ctr Earth Syst Sci, Room S813,MengMinwei Sci Bldg,Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 2.Tsinghua Univ, Joint Ctr Global Change Studies, Room S813,MengMinwei Sci Bldg,Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 3.NOAA, Geophys Fluid Dynam Lab, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Numer Modeling Atmospher Sci & Geop, Inst Atmospher Phys, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Tibetan Environm Changes & Land Surface P, Inst Tibetan Plateau Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 6.CAS Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Dong, WH ,Lin, YL ,Wright, JS ,et al. Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent[J]. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,2016,7(0):10925. |
| APA | Dong, WH .,Lin, YL .,Wright, JS .,Ming, Y .,Xie, YY .,...&Lin, YL.(2016).Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent.NATURE COMMUNICATIONS,7(0),10925. |
| MLA | Dong, WH ,et al."Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent".NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7.0(2016):10925. |
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