Effects of the South Asian summer monsoon anomaly on interannual variations in precipitation over the South-Central Tibetan Plateau

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 15; no. 12; pp. 124067 - 124079
• Main Authors: Zhu, Yanxin, Sang, Yan-Fang, Chen, Deliang, Sivakumar, Bellie, Li, Donghuan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Annual variations; Asymmetry; Convergence; Disasters; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap; Hydrology; Moisture; moisture budget analysis; Monsoons; Plateaus; Precipitation; precipitation anomaly; South Asian summer monsoon; Summer; Tibetan Plateau; Water vapor; water vapor transport; Tibetan Plateau

An anomalous South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) system could generate a large anomaly in precipitation and hydrological disasters in the SASM-prevailing area, as widely reported for the Indian Peninsula. However, how the SASM system influences the precipitation anomaly over the South-Central Tibetan...