1
views
0
recommends
+1 Recommend
0 collections
    0
    shares
      • Record: found
      • Abstract: not found
      • Article: not found

      Risk and the South Asian monsoon

      Climatic Change
      Springer Science and Business Media LLC

      Read this article at

      ScienceOpenPublisher
      Bookmark
          There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

          Related collections

          Most cited references16

          • Record: found
          • Abstract: found
          • Article: not found

          Atmospheric brown clouds: impacts on South Asian climate and hydrological cycle.

          South Asian emissions of fossil fuel SO(2) and black carbon increased approximately 6-fold since 1930, resulting in large atmospheric concentrations of black carbon and other aerosols. This period also witnessed strong negative trends of surface solar radiation, surface evaporation, and summer monsoon rainfall. These changes over India were accompanied by an increase in atmospheric stability and a decrease in sea surface temperature gradients in the Northern Indian Ocean. We conducted an ensemble of coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations from 1930 to 2000 to understand the role of atmospheric brown clouds in the observed trends. The simulations adopt the aerosol radiative forcing from the Indian Ocean experiment observations and also account for global increases in greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols. The simulated decreases in surface solar radiation, changes in surface and atmospheric temperatures over land and sea, and decreases in monsoon rainfall are similar to the observed trends. We also show that greenhouse gases and sulfates, by themselves, do not account for the magnitude or even the sign in many instances, of the observed trends. Thus, our simulations suggest that absorbing aerosols in atmospheric brown clouds may have played a major role in the observed regional climate and hydrological cycle changes and have masked as much as 50% of the surface warming due to the global increase in greenhouse gases. The simulations also raise the possibility that, if current trends in emissions continue, the subcontinent may experience a doubling of the drought frequency in the coming decades.
            Bookmark
            • Record: found
            • Abstract: not found
            • Article: not found

            Climate change and the South Asian summer monsoon

              Bookmark
              • Record: found
              • Abstract: not found
              • Article: not found

              Observed changes in extreme wet and dry spells during the South Asian summer monsoon season

                Bookmark

                Author and article information

                Journal
                Climatic Change
                Climatic Change
                Springer Science and Business Media LLC
                0165-0009
                1573-1480
                November 2018
                February 19 2016
                November 2018
                : 151
                : 1
                : 17-28
                Article
                10.1007/s10584-016-1629-x
                d652b9e1-3add-4754-b38a-4f7765322462
                © 2018

                http://www.springer.com/tdm

                History

                Comments

                Comment on this article