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Research article
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09 Mar 2021
Research article |
| 09 Mar 2021
| 09 Mar 2021
Sensitivity of modeled Indian monsoon to Chinese and Indian aerosol emissions
Peter Sherman
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR,
China
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Shaojie Song
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Alex T. Archibald
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, UK
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Nathan Luke Abraham
National Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, UK
Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Jean-François Lamarque
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Drew Shindell
Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Gregory Faluvegi
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Earth Institute, Columbia
University, New York, NY, USA
Michael B. McElroy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA
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Short summary
The aims here are to assess the role of aerosols in India's monsoon precipitation and to determine the relative contributions from Chinese and Indian emissions using CMIP6 models. We find that increased sulfur emissions reduce precipitation, which is primarily dynamically driven due to spatial shifts in convection over the region. A significant increase in precipitation (up to ~ 20 %) is found only when both Indian and Chinese sulfate emissions are regulated.
The aims here are to assess the role of aerosols in India's monsoon precipitation and to...
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