Impact of diabatic heating over the Tibetan Plateau on subsidence over northeast Asian arid region

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Sato, Tomonori ^a,b   Kimura, Fujio ^b,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEATING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SOLAR RADIATION;

ARID CLIMATE; ARTIFICIAL HEATING; CLIMATE MODELS; DIABATIC HEATING;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ARIDITY; DIABATIC PROCESS; REGIONAL CLIMATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; WORLD;

EID: 20444449306     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL022089     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Adler, R. F., et al. (2003), The version-2 Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) monthly precipitation analysis (1979-Present), J. Hydrometeorol., 4, 1147-1167.
2. Broccoli, A. J., and S. Manabe (1992), The effects of orography on midlatitude Northern Hemisphere dry climates, J. Clim., 5, 1181-1201.
3. Duan, A. M., and G. X. Wu (2005), Role of the Tibetan Plateau thermal forcing in the summer climate patterns over subtropical Asia, Clim. Dyn., in press.
4. He, H., J. W. McGinnis, Z. Song, and M. Yanai (1987), Onset of the Asian summer monsoon in 1979 and the effect of the Tibetan Plateau, Mon. Weather Rev., 115, 1966-1995.
5. Hoskins, B. J. (1996), On the existence and strength of the summer subtropical anticyclones, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 1287-1292.
6. Kalnay, E., et al. (1996), The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 77, 437-471.
7. Liu, X., and Z.-Y. Yin (2001), Spatial and temporal variation of summer precipitation over the eastern Tibetan plateau and the North Atlantic Oscillation, J. Clim., 14, 2896-2909.
8. Luo, H., and M. Yanai (1984), The large-scale circulation and heat sources over the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding areas during the early summer of 1979. Part II: Heat and moisture budgets, Mon. Weather Rev., 112, 966-989.
9. Manabe, S., and T. B. Terpstra (1974), The effects of mountains on the general circulation of the atmosphere as identified by numerical experiments, J. Atmos. Sci., 31, 3-42.
10. Rodwell, M. J., and B. J. Hoskins (1996), Monsoons and the dynamics of deserts, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 122, 1385-1404.
11. Sato, T., and F. Kimura (2003), A two-dimensional numerical study on diurnal cycle of mountain lee precipitation, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 1992-2003.
12. Sato, T., and F. Kimura (2005), Diurnal cycle of convective instability around the Central Mountains in Japan during the warm season, J. Atmos. Sci., in press.
13. Ueda, H., H. Kamahori, and N. Yamazaki (2003), Seasonal contrasting features of heat and moisture budgets between the eastern and western Tibetan Plateau during the GAME IOP, J. Clim., 16, 2309-2324.
14. Yanai, M., and C. Li (1994), Mechanism of heating and the boundary layer over the Tibetan Plateau, Mon. Weather Rev., 122, 305-323.
15. Yatagai, A., and T. Yasunari (1994), Trends and decadal-scale fluctuations of surface air temperature and precipitation over China and Mongolia during the recent 40 year period (1951-1990), J. Meteorol. Soc. Jpn., 72, 937-957.
16. Yoshikane, T., and F. Kimura (2003), Formation mechanism of the simulated SPCZ and Baiu front using a regional climate model, J. Atmos. Sci., 60, 2612-2632.