Influence of Tibetan Plateau snow cover on East Asian atmospheric circulation at medium-range time scales

Wenkai Li; Weidong Guo; Bo Qiu; Yongkang Xue; Pang-Chi Hsu; Jiangfeng Wei

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-06762-5

Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Influence of Tibetan Plateau snow cover on East Asian atmospheric circulation at medium-range time scales

Wenkai Li,
Weidong Guo,
Bo Qiu,
Yongkang Xue,
Pang-Chi Hsu,
Jiangfeng Wei

Affiliations

Wenkai Li: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME)/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Weidong Guo: Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University
Bo Qiu: Institute for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University
Yongkang Xue: Department of Geography and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California
Pang-Chi Hsu: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME)/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology
Jiangfeng Wei: Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education (KLME)/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC)/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD), Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06762-5
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The atmospheric response to subseasonal variability of Tibetan Plateau snow cover has been largely ignored. Here the authors show that the fast subseasonal variability of Tibetan Plateau snow cover is closely related to the subsequent East Asian atmospheric circulation at medium-range time scales.

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ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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