TY - JOUR
AU1 - Dong, Wenhao
AU2 - Lin, Yanluan
AU3 - Wright, Jonathon S.
AU4 - Ming, Yi
AU5 - Xie, Yuanyu
AU6 - Wang, Bin
AU7 - Luo, Yong
AU8 - Huang, Wenyu
AU9 - Huang, Jianbin
AU1 - Wang, Lei
AU1 - Tian, Lide
AU1 - Peng, Yiran
AU1 - Xu, Fanghua
AB - Despite the importance of precipitation and moisture transport over the Tibetan Plateau for glacier mass balance, river runoff and local ecology, changes in these quantities remain highly uncertain and poorly understood. Here we use observational data and model simulations to explore the close relationship between summer rainfall variability over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau (SWTP) and that over central-eastern India (CEI), which exists despite the separation of these two regions by the Himalayas. We show that this relationship is maintained primarily by ‘up-and-over’ moisture transport, in which hydrometeors and moisture are lifted by convective storms over CEI and the Himalayan foothills and then swept over the SWTP by the mid-tropospheric circulation, rather than by upslope flow over the Himalayas. Sensitivity simulations confirm the importance of up-and-over transport at event scales, and an objective storm classification indicates that this pathway accounts for approximately half of total summer rainfall over the SWTP.
TI - Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent
JF - Nature Communications
DO - 10.1038/ncomms10925
DA - 2016-03-07
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/summer-rainfall-over-the-southwestern-tibetan-plateau-controlled-by-a0oHh4gif4
SP - 1
EP - 9
VL - 7
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -