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An assessment of land energy balance over East Asia from multiple lines of evidence and the roles of the Tibet Plateau, aerosols, and clouds
Qiuyan Wang
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, 8092
Zurich, Switzerland
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Su Yang
National Meteorological Information Center, China Meteorological
Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Qi Chen
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Xixun Zhou
State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of
Meteorological Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
Bing Xie
Laboratory for Climate Studies of China Meteorological
Administration, National Climate Center, Beijing 100081, China
Yuying Wang
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
Guangyu Shi
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of
Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Martin Wild
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, 8092
Zurich, Switzerland
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The present-day land energy balance over East Asia is estimated for the first time. Results indicate that high aerosol loadings, clouds, and the Tibet Plateau (TP) over East Asia play vital roles in the shortwave budgets, while the TP is responsible for the longwave budgets during this regional energy budget assessment. This study provides a perspective to understand fully how the potential factors influence the diversifying regional energy budget assessments.
The present-day land energy balance over East Asia is estimated for the first time. Results...
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