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- Title
Siberian vegetation growth intensifies monsoon precipitation in southern East Asia in late spring and early summer.
- Authors
Yeh, Sang-Wook; Sohn, Byung-Ju; Oh, Sae-Yoon; Song, Se-Yong; Jeong, Jee-Hoon; Wang, Bin; Wu, Renguang; Yang, Young-Min
- Abstract
Regional hydrological cycle responding to rising temperatures can have significant influences on society and human activities. We suggest a new perspective on East Asia's enhanced precipitation amount that emphasizes the role of Siberian surface warming. Increased vegetation greenness in late spring and early summer in eastern Siberia, which may be a response to global warming, acts to warm the surface by reducing the surface albedo with an increase in net absorbed shortwave radiation. Subsequently, eastern Siberia warming leads to the strengthening of anti-cyclonic atmospheric circulation over inner East Asia as well as the subtropical western North Pacific high via thermal forcing and the enhanced land-sea thermal contrast, respectively. Consequently, the anticyclonic circulation over inner East Asia transports much drier and cooler air to southern East Asia. This leads to favorable conditions for increased precipitation in combination with an increased tropical moisture flux from the subtropical western North Pacific high. Therefore, continuous Siberian vegetation growth has a potential influence on the future precipitation amount in the subtropics through vegetation–atmosphere coupled processes.
- Subjects
EAST Asia; SIBERIA (Russia); SPRING; ATMOSPHERIC circulation; HYDROLOGIC cycle; VEGETATION greenness; MONSOONS; SUMMER
- Publication
NPJ Climate & Atmospheric Science, 2024, Vol 7, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2397-3722
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41612-024-00650-0