| Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia | |
| 2016 | |
| Source Publication | Reviews of Geophysics
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| ISSN | 8755-1209 |
| Volume | 54Issue:4Pages:866-929 |
| Abstract | The increasing severity of droughts/floods and worsening air quality from increasing aerosols in Asia monsoon regions are the two gravest threats facing over 60% of the world population living in Asian monsoon regions. These dual threats have fueled a large body of research in the last decade on the roles of aerosols in impacting Asian monsoon weather and climate. This paper provides a comprehensive review of studies on Asian aerosols, monsoons, and their interactions. The Asian monsoon region is a primary source of emissions of diverse species of aerosols from both anthropogenic and natural origins. The distributions of aerosol loading are strongly influenced by distinct weather and climatic regimes, which are, in turn, modulated by aerosol effects. On a continental scale, aerosols reduce surface insolation and weaken the land-ocean thermal contrast, thus inhibiting the development of monsoons. Locally, aerosol radiative effects alter the thermodynamic stability and convective potential of the lower atmosphere leading to reduced temperatures, increased atmospheric stability, and weakened wind and atmospheric circulations. The atmospheric thermodynamic state, which determines the formation of clouds, convection, and precipitation, may also be altered by aerosols serving as cloud condensation nuclei or ice nuclei. Absorbing aerosols such as black carbon and desert dust in Asian monsoon regions may also induce dynamical feedback processes, leading to a strengthening of the early monsoon and affecting the subsequent evolution of the monsoon. Many mechanisms have been put forth regarding how aerosols modulate the amplitude, frequency, intensity, and phase of different monsoon climate variables. A wide range of theoretical, observational, and modeling findings on the Asian monsoon, aerosols, and their interactions are synthesized. A new paradigm is proposed on investigating aerosol-monsoon interactions, in which natural aerosols such as desert dust, black carbon from biomass burning, and biogenic aerosols from vegetation are considered integral components of an intrinsic aerosol-monsoon climate system, subject to external forcing of global warming, anthropogenic aerosols, and land use and change. Future research on aerosol-monsoon interactions calls for an integrated approach and international collaborations based on long-term sustained observations, process measurements, and improved models, as well as using observations to constrain model simulations and projections. |
| Subject Area | Geochemistry & Geophysics |
| Publisher | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION |
| DOI | 10.1002/2015RG000500 |
| Publication Place | WASHINGTON |
| Indexed By | EI ; SCIE |
| Language | 英语 |
| First Inst | 否 |
| Funding Project | 国家自然科学基金项目 ; 国家重点基础研究发展计划以及国家重大科学研究计划（973计划） ; 美国国家科学基金项目 ; 美国能源部项目 |
| Project Number | China's National Basic Research Program on Global Change [2013CB955804] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China [91544217] ; U.S. National Science Foundation [AGS1534670] ; NOAA [NA15NWS4680011] ; U.S. Department of Energy [DESC0007171] ; DOE ESM Program [DE-AC05-76RL01830] |
| WOS ID | WOS:000393217800004 |
| Funding Organization | NSFC ; MOST ; US DOE ; US NSF |
| EI Accession Number | 20165003126305 |
| Subtype | Review |
| EI Keywords | Air quality ; Atmospheric thermodynamics ; Carbon ; Dust ; Global warming ; Land use ; Pollution ; Precipitation (meteorology) |
| EI Classification Number | Urban and Regional Planning and Development:403 ; Atmospheric Properties:443.1 ; Precipitation:443.3 ; Air Pollution Sources:451.1 ; Air Pollution Control:451.2 ; Chemical Products Generally:804 |
| Original Document Type | Journal article (JA) |
| IRID | WOS:000393217800004 |
| Citation statistics | |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.lzu.edu.cn/handle/262010/189544 |
| Collection | 大气科学学院 |
| Corresponding Author | Li, Zhanqing |
| Affiliation | 1.State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology and College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China 2.Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science and ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park; MD, United States 3.Department of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, University of California, San Diego; CA, United States 4.Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 5.National Climate Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China 6.Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland; WA, United States 7.Institute of Earth Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel 8.Geophysical Fluid Dynamic Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton; NJ, United States 9.Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; CA, United States 10.College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China 11.Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu; HI, United States 12.School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China 13.Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China 14.Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 15.National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan 16.Space Physics Laboratory, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India 17.Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Li, Zhanqing,Lau, W.K.-M.,Ramanathan, V.,et al. Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia[J]. Reviews of Geophysics,2016,54(4):866-929. |
| APA | Li, Zhanqing.,Lau, W.K.-M..,Ramanathan, V..,Wu, G..,Ding, Y..,...&Brasseur, G.P..(2016).Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia.Reviews of Geophysics,54(4),866-929. |
| MLA | Li, Zhanqing,et al."Aerosol and monsoon climate interactions over Asia".Reviews of Geophysics 54.4(2016):866-929. |
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