Asynchronous responses of East Asian and Indian summer monsoons to mountain uplift shown by regional climate modelling experiments

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 40, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 1531-1549

  Tang, Hui ^a   Micheels, Arne ^b,c   Eronen, Jussi T ^a,b   Ahrens, Bodo ^d   Fortelius, Mikael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asynchronous evolution; East Asian summer monsoon (EASM); Indian summer monsoon (ISM); Mountain uplift; Regional climate model; Thermal effect

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; CLIMATE MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MONSOON; NEOGENE; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUMMER; TECTONIC SETTING; TROPOSPHERE; UPLIFT; VORTICITY;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; ZAGROS;

EID: 84874338443     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-012-1603-x     Document Type: Article

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