Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates

Wengui Liang; Minghua Zhang

doi:10.1038/s43247-021-00219-2

Communications Earth & Environment (Jul 2021)

Summer and winter precipitation in East Asia scale with global warming at different rates

Wengui Liang,
Minghua Zhang

Affiliations

Wengui Liang: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University
Minghua Zhang: School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00219-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Precipitation responses to climate warming in East Asia differ between summer and winter as a result of steepening atmospheric moisture gradients, weakening westerlies and a higher hydrological amplitude in atmospheric eddies, according to climate model simulations.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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