Monsoons, ITCZs, and the concept of the global monsoon

R Geen, S Bordoni, DS Battisti, K Hui - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's tropical and subtropical rainbands, such as Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZs)
and monsoons, are complex systems, governed by both large‐scale constraints on the …

[HTML][HTML] Extremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau

C He, T Zhou, L Zhang, X Chen, W Zhang - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
In the summer (July and August) of 2022, unprecedented heat wave occurred along the
Yangtze River Valley (YRV) over East Asia while unprecedented flood occurred over …

[HTML][HTML] Teleconnections among tipping elements in the Earth system

T Liu, D Chen, L Yang, J Meng, Z Wang… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Tipping elements are components of the Earth system that may shift abruptly and irreversibly
from one state to another at specific thresholds. It is not well understood to what degree …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in understanding multi-scale climate variability of the Asian monsoon

W Chen, R Zhang, R Wu, Z Wen, L Zhou… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Studies of the multi-scale climate variability of the Asian monsoon are essential to an
advanced understanding of the physical processes of the global climate system. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Wet bias of summer precipitation in the northwestern Tibetan Plateau in ERA5 is linked to overestimated lower-level southerly wind over the plateau

T Ou, D Chen, J Tang, C Lin, X Wang, J Kukulies… - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), also called the Third Pole, is considered to be “the world
water tower”. The northwestern TP (NWTP), which has an average elevation higher than …

[HTML][HTML] Two approaches of the spring North Atlantic sea surface temperature affecting the following July precipitation over central China: The tropical and extratropical …

L Chen, G Li, B Lu, Y Li, C Gao, SM Long… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
The spring tripole sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in North Atlantic are an
outstanding regional mode of interannual variability. Based on the observed and reanalyzed …

[HTML][HTML] Joint effects of three oceans on the 2020 super mei‐yu

H Li, B Sun, H Wang, X Yuan - Atmospheric and oceanic science letters, 2022 - Elsevier
An unexpected super mei-yu struck in 2020 in the Yangtze–Huaihe River basin, southern
Korea, and southern Japan (hereafter referred to as the mei-yu regions), causing many …

Warming‐induced northwestward migration of the Asian summer monsoon in the geological past: Evidence from climate simulations and geological reconstructions

X Huang, S Yang, A Haywood, D Jiang… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The cold and warm intervals during the Plio‐Pleistocene provide an opportunity to assess
the response of the Asian summer monsoon (ASM) to different levels of global warming. In …

[HTML][HTML] Origins of East Asian summer monsoon seasonality

JCH Chiang, W Kong, CH Wu, DS Battisti - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The East Asian summer monsoon is unique among summer monsoon systems in its
complex seasonality, exhibiting distinct intraseasonal stages. Previous studies have alluded …

Southward shift of westerlies intensifies the East Asian early summer rainband following El Niño

W Kong, JCH Chiang - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract An intensification of East Asian rainfall usually occurs in summers following El Niño.
We propose that this teleconnection is mediated via the westerlies impinging on the Tibetan …