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DOI | 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0471.1 |
Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s? | |
Sun, Jing; Yang, Kun; Guo, Weidong; Wang, Yan; He, Jie; Lu, Hui | |
通讯作者 | Yang, K (通讯作者) |
发表日期 | 2020 |
ISSN | 0894-8755 |
EISSN | 1520-0442 |
起始页码 | 8507 |
结束页码 | 8522 |
卷号 | 33期号:19 |
英文摘要 | The Inner Tibetan Plateau (ITP; also called the Qiangtang Plateau) appears to have experienced an overall wetting in summer (June, July, and August) since the mid-1990s, which has caused the rapid expansion of thousands of lakes. In this study, changes in atmospheric circulations associated with the wetting process are analyzed for 1979-2018. These analyses show that the wetting is associated with simultaneously weakened westerlies over the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The latter is further significantly correlated with the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO) on interdecadal time scales. The AMO has been in a positive phase (warm anomaly of the North Atlantic Ocean sea surface) since the mid-1990s, which has led to both a northward shift and weakening of the subtropical westerly jet stream at 200 hPa near the TP through a wave train of cyclonic and anticyclonic anomalies over Eurasia. These anomalies are characterized by an anomalous anticyclone to the east of the ITP and an anomalous cyclone to the west of the ITP. The former weakens the westerly winds, trapping water vapor over the ITP while the latter facilitates water vapor intruding from the Arabian Sea into the ITP. Accordingly, summer precipitation over the ITP has increased since the mid-1990s. |
关键词 | MERIDIONAL DISPLACEMENTLAKE EXPANSIONCLIMATE-CHANGEWESTERLY JETPRECIPITATIONRAINFALLSTREAMCHINAVARIABILITYDYNAMICS |
英文关键词 | Teleconnections; Jets; Precipitation; Summer/warm season; Wind |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000589983000019 |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF CLIMATE |
来源机构 | 中国科学院青藏高原研究所 |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/259797 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sun, Jing,Yang, Kun,Guo, Weidong,et al. Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s?[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2020,33(19). |
APA | Sun, Jing,Yang, Kun,Guo, Weidong,Wang, Yan,He, Jie,&Lu, Hui.(2020).Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s?.JOURNAL OF CLIMATE,33(19). |
MLA | Sun, Jing,et al."Why Has the Inner Tibetan Plateau Become Wetter since the Mid-1990s?".JOURNAL OF CLIMATE 33.19(2020). |
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