Near Future Projection of Indian Summer Monsoon Circulation under 1.5 C and 2.0 C Warming

Devanil Choudhury*, Debashis Nath, Wen Chen

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Abstract

The Indian summer monsoon’s (ISM) response to low (1.5 C) and medium (2.0 C) warming scenarios are examined during the period 2021–2050 using 11 member ensembles of the state-of-the-art Community Earth System Model, version 1 (CESM1-CAM5) datasets. We find that in the near-term period an increase in warming by 0.5 C will strengthen the monsoon circulation and precipitation over the Indian landmass and east Asia. Under the 1.5 C warming scenario, the ISM circulation will weaken, and precipitation will exhibit a decreasing trend, while the ISM precipitation and circulation will strengthen under the 2.0 C warming scenario. The strengthening of ISM under the 2.0 C warming scenario is due to the strengthening of the South China Sea (SCS) anticyclone and a high-pressure center near the Philippine Island. This high-pressure center over the SCS will facilitate a cross-basin strengthening of the easterly wind from the western Pacific Ocean/SCS to the equatorial Indian Ocean, which will, in turn, strengthen the transport of the Pacific-origin moisture to the Indian subcontinent and East Asia. This increase in moisture content over the Indian subcontinent will strengthen the monsoonal circulation and precipitation under the 2.0 C warming scenario.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number1081
JournalATMOSPHERE
Volume13
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Funding: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41961144016).

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© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Keywords

  • 1.5 C
  • 2.0 C
  • CESM1
  • Indian Ocean
  • Indian summer monsoon
  • internal climate variability
  • South China Sea

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
  • Atmospheric Science

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