[HTML][HTML] Human contribution to the increasing summer precipitation in Central Asia from 1961 to 2013

D Peng, T Zhou, L Zhang, B Wu - Journal of Climate, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
The ecosystem and societal development over arid Central Asia, the core connecting region
of the Silk Road Economic Belt, are highly sensitive to climate change. The results derived …

Why was the arid and semiarid northwest China getting wetter in the recent decades?

D Peng, T Zhou - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The arid and semiarid northwest China has experienced a significant wetting trend in
summer during 1961–2010, but the reasons remain ambiguous. In this study, moisture …

Impact of moisture source variation on decadal‐scale changes of precipitation in North China from 1951 to 2010

Z Jiang, S Jiang, Y Shi, Z Liu, W Li… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Hybrid Single‐Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory platform is employed
in this study to simulate trajectories of air parcels in the rainy season in North China during …

[HTML][HTML] Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates

W Liang, M Zhang - Communications Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Future changes of regional precipitation are of great scientific and societal interests. Large
uncertainties still exist in their projections by models. Mechanistic understanding is therefore …

Future changes in precipitation over Central Asia based on CMIP6 projections

J Jiang, T Zhou, X Chen, L Zhang - Environmental Research …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A stronger than global mean warming trend is projected over Central Asia in the coming
century. Based on the historical simulations and projections under four combined scenarios …

[HTML][HTML] Attribution of dry and wet climatic changes over Central Asia

Y Ren, H Yu, C Liu, Y He, J Huang, L Zhang… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Central Asia (CA; 35°–55° N, 55°–90° E) has been experiencing a significant
warming trend during the past five decades, which has been accompanied by intensified …

Distinct influences of land cover and land management on seasonal climate

D Singh, SP McDermid, BI Cook… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic land use and land cover change is primarily represented in climate model
simulations through prescribed transitions from natural vegetation to cropland or pasture …

[HTML][HTML] Moisture sources associated with precipitation during dry and wet seasons over Central Asia

D Peng, T Zhou, L Zhang - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Identifying the origin of moisture is a key process in revealing the formation mechanisms of
precipitation, but the moisture sources for central Asia have not been well documented in …

[HTML][HTML] The contributions of local and remote atmospheric moisture fluxes to East Asian precipitation and its variability

L Guo, NP Klingaman, ME Demory, PL Vidale… - Climate Dynamics, 2018 - Springer
We investigate the contribution of the local and remote atmospheric moisture fluxes to East
Asia (EA) precipitation and its interannual variability during 1979–2012. We use and expand …

Human‐induced rainfall reduction in drought‐prone northern central Asia

J Jiang, T Zhou - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The reduction of summer rainfall since the 1950s has resulted in severe drought and the
degradation of vegetation over northern Central Asia (NCA). However, whether the decline …