Nature Communications (Mar 2016)
Summer rainfall over the southwestern Tibetan Plateau controlled by deep convection over the Indian subcontinent
- Wenhao Dong,
- Yanluan Lin,
- Jonathon S. Wright,
- Yi Ming,
- Yuanyu Xie,
- Bin Wang,
- Yong Luo,
- Wenyu Huang,
- Jianbin Huang,
- Lei Wang,
- Lide Tian,
- Yiran Peng,
- Fanghua Xu
Affiliations
- Wenhao Dong
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Yanluan Lin
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Jonathon S. Wright
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Yi Ming
- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton/NOAA
- Yuanyu Xie
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Bin Wang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Yong Luo
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Wenyu Huang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Jianbin Huang
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Lei Wang
- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences
- Lide Tian
- Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences
- Yiran Peng
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- Fanghua Xu
- Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Center for Earth System Science, and Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Tsinghua University, Room S813, MengMinwei Science Building, Qinghuayuan 1, Beijing 100084, China
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10925
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
While precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau is a vital resource for glacier mass balance, river runoff and local ecology, the controlling mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, the authors combine observations and simulations and show that convective storms over India sweep moisture up and over the plateau.
