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General circulation models (GCMs) are unanimous in projecting warmer temperatures in an enhanced CO2 atmosphere, with amplification of this warming in higher latitudes. The Hudson Bay region, which is located in the Arctic and subarctic regions of Canada, should therefore be strongly influenced by global warming. In this study, we compare the response of Hudson Bay to a transient warming scenario provided by six-coupled atmosphere-ocean models. Our analysis focuses on surface temperature, precipitation, sea-ice coverage, and permafrost distribution. The results show that warming is expected to peak in winter over the ocean, because of a northward retreat of the sea-ice cover. Also, a secondary warming peak is observed in summer over land in the Canadian and Australian-coupled GCMs, which is associated with both a reduction in soil moisture conditions and changes in permafrost distribution. In addition, a relationship is identified between the retreat of the sea-ice cover and an enhancement of precipitation over both land and oceanic surfaces. The response of the sea-ice cover and permafrost layer to global warming varies considerably among models and thus large differences are observed in the projected regional increase in temperature and precipitation. In view of the important feedbacks that a retreat of the sea-ice cover and the distribution of permafrost are likely to play in the doubled and tripled CO2 climates of Hudson Bay, a good representation of these two parameters is necessary to provide realistic climate change scenarios. The use of higher resolution regional climate model is recommended to develop scenarios of climate change for the Hudson Bay region. 相似文献
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CO2 climate sensitivity and snow-sea-ice albedo parameterization in an atmospheric GCM coupled to a mixed-layer ocean model 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The snow-sea-ice albedo parameterization in an atmospheric general circulation model (GCM), coupled to a simple mixed-layer ocean and run with an annual cycle of solar forcing, is altered from a version of the same model described by Washington and Meehl (1984). The model with the revised formulation is run to equilibrium for 1 × CO2 and 2 × CO2 experiments. The 1 ×CO2 (control) simulation produces a global mean climate about 1° warmer than the original version, and sea-ice extent is reduced. The model with the altered parameterization displays heightened sensitivity in the global means, but the geographical patterns of climate change due to increased carbon dioxide (CO2) are qualitatively similar. The magnitude of the climate change is affected, not only in areas directly influenced by snow and ice changes but also in other regions of the globe, including the tropics where sea-surface temperature, evaporation, and precipitation over the oceans are greater. With the less-sensitive formulation, the global mean surface air temperature increase is 3.5 °C, and the increase of global mean precipitation is 7.12%. The revised formulation produces a globally averaged surface air temperature increase of 4.04 °C and a precipitation increase of 7.25%, as well as greater warming of the upper tropical troposphere. Sensitivity of surface hydrology is qualitatively similar between the two cases with the larger-magnitude changes in the revised snow and ice-albedo scheme experiment. Variability of surface air temperature in the model is comparable to observations in most areas except at high latitudes during winter. In those regions, temporal variation of the sea-ice margin and fluctuations of snow cover dependent on the snow-ice-albedo formulation contribute to larger-than-observed temperature variability. This study highlights an uncertainty associated with results from current climate GCMs that use highly parameterized snow-sea-ice albedo schemes with simple mixed-layer ocean models.The National Center for Atmospheric Research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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We report the analysis of two 20-year simulations performed with the low resolution version of the IPSL coupled ocean-atmosphere
model, with no flux correction at the air-sea interface. The simulated climate is characterized by a global sea surface temperature
warming of about 4 °C in 20 years, driven by a net heat gain at the top of the atmosphere. Despite this drift, the circulation
is quite realistic both in the ocean and the atmosphere. Several distinct periods are analyzed. The first corresponds to an
adjustment during which the heat gain weakens both at the top of the atmosphere and at the ocean surface, and the tropical
circulation is slightly modified. Then, the surface warming is enhanced by an increase of the greenhouse feedback. We show
that the mechanisms involved in the model share common features with sensitivity experiments to greenhouse gases or to SST
warming. At the top of the atmosphere, most of the longwave trapping in the atmosphere is driven by the tropical circulation.
At the surface, the reduction of longwave cooling is a direct response to increased temperature and moisture content at low
levels in the atmospheric model. During the last part of the simulation, a regulation occurs from evaporation at the surface
and longwave cooling at TOA. Most of the model drift is attributed to a too large heating by solar radiation in middle and
high latitudes. The reduction of the north–south temperature gradient, and the related changes in the meridional equator-to-pole
ocean heat transport lead to a warming of equatorial and subtropical regions. This is also well demonstrated by the difference
between the two simulations which differ only in the parametrization of sea-ice. When the sea-ice cover is not restored to
climatology the model does not maintain sea-ice at high latitudes. The climate warms more rapidly and the water vapor and
clouds feedback occurs earlier.
Received: 24 May 1996 / Accepted: 29 November 1996 相似文献
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Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change 总被引：3，自引：3，他引：0
Manoj M. Joshi Jonathan M. Gregory Mark J. Webb David M. H. Sexton Tim C. Johns 《Climate Dynamics》2008,30(5):455-465
The land/sea warming contrast is a phenomenon of both equilibrium and transient simulations of climate change: large areas
of the land surface at most latitudes undergo temperature changes whose amplitude is more than those of the surrounding oceans.
Using idealised GCM experiments with perturbed SSTs, we show that the land/sea contrast in equilibrium simulations is associated
with local feedbacks and the hydrological cycle over land, rather than with externally imposed radiative forcing. This mechanism
also explains a large component of the land/sea contrast in transient simulations as well. We propose a conceptual model with
three elements: (1) there is a spatially variable level in the lower troposphere at which temperature change is the same over
land and sea; (2) the dependence of lapse rate on moisture and temperature causes different changes in lapse rate upon warming
over land and sea, and hence a surface land/sea temperature contrast; (3) moisture convergence over land predominantly takes
place at levels significantly colder than the surface; wherever moisture supply over land is limited, the increase of evaporation
over land upon warming is limited, reducing the relative humidity in the boundary layer over land, and hence also enhancing
the land/sea contrast. The non-linearity of the Clausius–Clapeyron relationship of saturation specific humidity to temperature
is critical in (2) and (3). We examine the sensitivity of the land/sea contrast to model representations of different physical
processes using a large ensemble of climate model integrations with perturbed parameters, and find that it is most sensitive
to representation of large-scale cloud and stomatal closure. We discuss our results in the context of high-resolution and
Earth-system modelling of climate change. 相似文献
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利用GLDAS资料分析黄土高原半干旱区土壤湿度对气候变化的响应 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
利用GLDAS资料分析了1948~2010年黄土高原半干旱区气温、降水和土壤湿度的变化趋势,并重点讨论了气温和降水对土壤湿度的影响和相对贡献。结果表明:近60 a来黄土高原半干旱区整体呈现暖干化趋势,增温速率明显高于全球平均增温速率;不同深度的土壤湿度的长期变化均呈减小趋势,且年际间变化明显。不同深度的土壤湿度和气温呈负相关关系,并随着土壤加深,两者的相关性加强;土壤湿度和降水则呈正相关关系,相关关系最大出现在表层土壤。通过分析气温和降水在不同季节对土壤湿度的相对贡献发现,春季和冬季气温对土壤湿度的相对贡献较降水显著,秋季恰好相反,夏季气温和降水对土壤湿度的相对贡献大小相当。对比不同深度层降水、气温对土壤湿度的相对贡献得出,降水对浅层土壤湿度有显著作用,而气温对深层土壤湿度的作用更明显。 相似文献
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内蒙古典型草原区近40年气候变化及其对土壤水分的影响 总被引：18，自引：0，他引：18
分析气候变化对草原区土壤水分的影响对了解草原退化原因、恢复草原生态环境有重要的指导意义。根据近40年气象资料和近20年的土壤水分观测资料,利用线性趋势等数理统计方法,分析了内蒙古典型草原区气候变化趋势和对土壤水分变化的影响,得出内蒙古典型草原区近40年气候变化趋势与全球气候变化规律相似;影响土壤湿度的气象因子主要是降水和蒸发,温度通过影响蒸发而间接影响土壤湿度,蒸降差是分析气候变化对土壤水分影响的直观指标。气候变暖导致蒸发加剧,在降水增加不明显的条件下,加速了土壤干旱化程度。 相似文献
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Gen Li Baohua Ren Jianqiu Zheng Chengyun Yang 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2011,104(3-4):387-401
Using the Objectively Analyzed air?Csea Fluxes dataset (and also the National Oceanography Centre Southampton Flux Dataset v2.0), we examined both the annual mean climatology and trend of net air?Csea surface heat flux (Q net) for 1984?C2004 over the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans (10°N?C50°N). The annual mean Q net climatology shows that oceans obtain the positive Q net over much of the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans. Exceptions are the regions of western boundary currents (WBCs) including the Kuroshio and its extension off Japan and the Gulf Stream off the USA and its extension, where oceans release lots of heat into the atmosphere, mainly ascribed to the large surface turbulent heat loss. The statistically significant negative Q net trends occurred in the WBCs, while the statistically significant positive Q net trends appeared in the central basins of Northern Subtropical Oceans (CNSOs) including the central basin of Northern Subtropical Pacific and the central basin of Northern Subtropical Atlantic. These indentified Q net trends, which are independent of both El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and ENSO Modoki but closely related to global warming forcing, are predominately due to the statistically significant surface latent heat (LH) trends. Over the WBCs, the positive LH trends are mainly induced by the sea surface temperature increasing, indicating the ocean forcing upon overlying atmosphere. In contrast, over the CNSOs, the negative LH trends are mainly caused by the near-surface air specific humidity increasing, indicative of an oceanic response to overlying atmospheric forcing. 相似文献
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G. Bala Ken Caldeira Rama Nemani Long Cao George Ban-Weiss Ho-Jeong Shin 《Climate Dynamics》2011,37(5-6):915-931
Recent studies have shown that changes in solar radiation affect the hydrological cycle more strongly than equivalent CO2 changes for the same change in global mean surface temperature. Thus, solar radiation management ??geoengineering?? proposals to completely offset global mean temperature increases by reducing the amount of absorbed sunlight might be expected to slow the global water cycle and reduce runoff over land. However, proposed countering of global warming by increasing the albedo of marine clouds would reduce surface solar radiation only over the oceans. Here, for an idealized scenario, we analyze the response of temperature and the hydrological cycle to increased reflection by clouds over the ocean using an atmospheric general circulation model coupled to a mixed layer ocean model. When cloud droplets are reduced in size over all oceans uniformly to offset the temperature increase from a doubling of atmospheric CO2, the global-mean precipitation and evaporation decreases by about 1.3% but runoff over land increases by 7.5% primarily due to increases over tropical land. In the model, more reflective marine clouds cool the atmospheric column over ocean. The result is a sinking motion over oceans and upward motion over land. We attribute the increased runoff over land to this increased upward motion over land when marine clouds are made more reflective. Our results suggest that, in contrast to other proposals to increase planetary albedo, offsetting mean global warming by reducing marine cloud droplet size does not necessarily lead to a drying, on average, of the continents. However, we note that the changes in precipitation, evaporation and P-E are dominated by small but significant areas, and given the highly idealized nature of this study, a more thorough and broader assessment would be required for proposals of altering marine cloud properties on a large scale. 相似文献
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Atmospheric Moisture Residence Times and Cycling: Implications for Rainfall Rates and Climate Change 总被引：16，自引：0，他引：16
Kevin E. Trenberth 《Climatic change》1998,39(4):667-694
New estimates of the moistening of the atmosphere through evaporation at the surface and of the drying through precipitation are computed. Overall, the e-folding residence time of atmospheric moisture is just over 8 days. New estimates are also made of how much moisture that precipitates out comes from horizontal transport versus local evaporation, referred to as recycling. The results depend greatly on the scale of the domain under consideration and global maps of the recycling for annual means are produced for 500 km scales for which global recycling is 9.6%, consisting of 8.9% over land and 9.9% over the oceans. Even for 1000 km scales, less than 20% of the annual precipitation typically comes from evaporation within the domain. While average overall atmospheric moisture depletion and restoration must balance, precipitation falls only a small fraction of the time. Thus precipitation rates are also examined. Over the United States, one hour intervals with 0.1 mm or more are used to show that the frequency of precipitation ranges from over 30% in the Northwest, to about 20% in the Southeast and less than 4% just east of the continental divide in winter, and from less than 2% in California to over 20% in the Southeast in summer. In midlatitudes precipitation typically falls about 10% of the time, and so rainfall rates, conditional on when rain is falling, are much larger than evaporation rates. The mismatches in the rates of rainfall versus evaporation imply that precipitating systems of all kinds feed mostly on the moisture already in the atmosphere. Over North America, much of the precipitation originates from moisture advected from the Gulf of Mexico and subtropical Atlantic or Pacific a day or so earlier. Increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere produce global warming through an increase in downwelling infrared radiation, and thus not only increase surface temperatures but also enhance the hydrological cycle, as much of the heating at the surface goes into evaporating surface moisture. Global temperature increases signify that the water-holding capacity of the atmosphere increases and, together with enhanced evaporation, this means that the actual atmospheric moisture should increase. It follows that naturally-occurring droughts are likely to be exacerbated by enhanced potential evapotranspiration. Further, globally there must be an increase in precipitation to balance the enhanced evaporation but the processes by which precipitation is altered locally are not well understood. Observations confirm that atmospheric moisture is increasing in many places, for example at a rate of about 5% per decade over the United States. Based on the above results, we argue that increased moisture content of the atmosphere therefore favors stronger rainfall or snowfall events, thus increasing risk of flooding, which is a pattern observed to be happening in many parts of the world. Moreover, because there is a disparity between the rates of increase of atmospheric moisture and precipitation, there are implied changes in the frequency of precipitation and/or efficiency of precipitation (related to how much moisture is left behind in a storm). However, an analysis of linear trends in the frequency of precipitation events for the United States corresponding to thresholds of 0.1 and 1 mm/h shows that the most notable statistically significant trends are for increases in the southern United States in winter and decreases in the Pacific Northwest from November through January, which may be related to changes in atmospheric circulation and storm tracks associated with El Niño–Southern Oscillation trends. It is suggested that as the physical constraints on precipitation apply only globally, more attention should be paid to rates in both observations and models as well as the frequency of occurrence. 相似文献
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This study deals with potential changes in the relative humidity associated with global warming and their implications on
heat stress along the coastal region of the Mediterranean in the summer season. It is based on the assumption that the regional
warming will enhance the lower-level stability due to the thermal inertia of the sea with respect to its overlying air. The
enhanced stability implies more effective trapping of the near surface moisture, and as a result—further increase of the relative
humidity. The marine boundary layer over the Mediterranean is modeled. The central feature of the model is the marine inversion
capping the marine moist air, which intensity is positively correlated with the stability. Simple calculations indicate that
if the temperature increases, while the stability remains unchanged, the near-surface relative humidity would not be affected.
But, an increase in the stability would result in an increase in the near-surface relative humidity. This prediction is validated
through observed trends of the respective fields, using the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data and soundings from the eastern Mediterranean.
The results are consistent in indicating an increase in the near-surface temperature, the lower-level stability and the relative
humidity over the eastern part of the Mediterranean, but not in its western part. The results for the eastern Mediterranean
support the expectation for an aggravation of heat stress beyond that imparted by the temperature rise. 相似文献
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We estimate the effects of climatic changes, as predicted by six climate models, on lake surface temperatures on a global scale, using the lake surface equilibrium temperature as a proxy. We evaluate interactions between different forcing variables, the sensitivity of lake surface temperatures to these variables, as well as differences between climate zones. Lake surface equilibrium temperatures are predicted to increase by 70 to 85 % of the increase in air temperatures. On average, air temperature is the main driver for changes in lake surface temperatures, and its effect is reduced by ~10 % by changes in other meteorological variables. However, the contribution of these other variables to the variance is ~40 % of that of air temperature, and their effects can be important at specific locations. The warming increases the importance of longwave radiation and evaporation for the lake surface heat balance compared to shortwave radiation and convective heat fluxes. We discuss the consequences of our findings for the design and evaluation of different types of studies on climate change effects on lakes. 相似文献
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Evidence is presented that the recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land. Atmospheric model simulations of the last half-century with prescribed observed ocean temperature changes, but without prescribed GHG changes, account for most of the land warming. The oceanic influence has occurred through hydrodynamic-radiative teleconnections, primarily by moistening and warming the air over land and increasing the downward longwave radiation at the surface. The oceans may themselves have warmed from a combination of natural and anthropogenic influences. 相似文献
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A transient climate change simulation with greenhouse gas and aerosol forcing: projected climate to the twenty-first century 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
The potential climatic consequences of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentration and sulfate aerosol loading
are investigated for the years 1900 to 2100 based on five simulations with the CCCma coupled climate model. The five simulations
comprise a control experiment without change in GHG or aerosol amount, three independent simulations with increasing GHG and
aerosol forcing, and a simulation with increasing GHG forcing only. Climate warming accelerates from the present with global
mean temperatures simulated to increase by 1.7 °C to the year 2050 and by a further 2.7 °C by the year 2100. The warming is
non-uniform as to hemisphere, season, and underlying surface. Changes in interannual variability of temperature show considerable
structure and seasonal dependence. The effect of the comparatively localized negative radiative forcing associated with the
aerosol is to retard and reduce the warming by about 0.9 °C at 2050 and 1.2 °C at 2100. Its primary effect on temperature
is to counteract the global pattern of GHG-induced warming and only secondarily to affect local temperatures suggesting that
the first order transient climate response of the system is determined by feedback processes and only secondarily by the local
pattern of radiative forcing. The warming is accompanied by a more active hydrological cycle with increases in precipitation
and evaporation rates that are delayed by comparison with temperature increases. There is an “El Nino-like” shift in precipitation
and an overall increase in the interannual variability of precipitation. The effect of the aerosol forcing is again primarily
to delay and counteract the GHG-induced increase. Decreases in soil moisture are common but regionally dependent and interannual
variability changes show considerable structure. Snow cover and sea-ice retreat. A PNA-like anomaly in mean sea-level pressure
with an enhanced Aleutian low in northern winter is associated with the tropical shift in precipitation regime. The interannual
variability of mean sea-level pressure generally decreases with largest decreases in the tropical Indian ocean region. Changes
to the ocean thermal structure are associated with a spin-down of the Atlantic thermohaline circulation together with a decrease
in its variability. The effect of aerosol forcing, although modest, differs from that for most other quantities in that it
does not act primarily to counteract the GHG forcing effect. The barotropic stream function in the ocean exhibits modest change
in the north Pacific but accelerating changes in much of the Southern Ocean and particularly in the north Atlantic where the
gyre spins down in conjunction with the decrease in the thermohaline circulation. The results differ in non-trivial ways from
earlier equilibrium 2 × CO2 results with the CCCma model as a consequence of the coupling to a fully three-dimensional ocean model and the evolving nature
of the forcing.
Received: 24 September 1998 / Accepted: 8 October 1999 相似文献
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Ki-Weon Seo Duane E. Waliser Baijun Tian Baek-Min Kim Seong-Chan Park Steve Cocke Byung-Ju Sohn Masayoshi Ishii 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences》2012,48(2):153-158
Variations of global evapotranspiration (ET) and fresh water discharge from land to oceans (D) are important components of global climate change, but have not been well monitored. In this study, we present an estimate of twenty years (1989 to 2008) variations of global D and ET derived from satellite remote-sensed measurements and recent reanalysis products, ERA-Interim and CFSR, by using a novel application of the water balance equations separately over land and over oceans. Time series of annual mean global D and ET from both satellite observations and reanalyses show clear positive and negative trends, respectively, as a result of modest increase of oceanic evaporation (E o ). The inter-annual variations of D are similar to the in-situ-based observations, and the negative trend of ET supports the previous result that relative humidity has decreased while temperature has increased on land. The results suggest considerable sensitivity of the terrestrial hydrological cycles (e.g., D and ET) to small changes in precipitation and oceanic evaporation. 相似文献
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陆面过程对全球变暖的响应及可能机制—基于CMIP3的多模式集合分析 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
利用“国际耦合模式比较计划” (Phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, CMIP3) 12个模式对20世纪 (The Twentieth-Century Climate in Coupled Models, 20C3M) 和21世纪SRES (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) A1B 情景下的模拟结果, 通过21世纪 (2001～2099年) 与20世纪 (1901～1999年) 陆面能量和水文变量的对比分析, 揭示了陆面过程对全球变暖响应的基本特征, 并探讨了其可能的响应机制。结果表明, 与20世纪相比, 21世纪全球陆面平均的表面温度、 地表净辐射、 潜热通量明显增加; 而感热通量有所减小。降水、 径流、 蒸发等地表水循环分量也表现出不同程度的增加, 而土壤含水量有减小趋势。通过分析近地层主要大气强迫变量与陆面变量之间的联系, 发现陆面能量平衡过程对全球变暖的响应主要受向下长波辐射和气温变化的影响, 而温度的变化对陆面水文过程的影响起决定性的作用。进一步分析表明, 陆面过程对全球变暖的响应存在明显的区域性差异, 陆面温度和感热对全球变暖响应最显著的区域位于北半球中高纬, 而净辐射和潜热对全球变暖的响应在亚洲中部和非洲大陆最显著。相对于20世纪, 21世纪主要是长波辐射和温度对陆面能量平衡过程的贡献重要。对于陆面水文过程, 径流和土壤含水量对全球变暖的响应在亚洲中部以及北美最显著。在全球变暖背景下, 21世纪相对于20世纪, 温度对陆面水循环的影响更加显著, 主要体现在北半球中纬度地区。 相似文献
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Linear trend analysis of observational data combined with model diagnostics from an atmospheric general circulation model are employed to search for potential mechanisms related to the observed glacier retreat in the tropical Andes between 1950 and 1998. Observational evidence indicates that changes in precipitation amount or cloud cover over the last decades are minor in most regions and are therefore rather unlikely to have caused the observed retreat. The only exception is in southern Peru and western Bolivia where there is a general tendency toward slightly drier conditions. Near-surface temperature on the other hand has increased significantly throughout most of the tropical Andes. The temperature increase varies markedly between the eastern and western Andean slopes with a much larger temperature increase to the west. Simulations with the ECHAM-4 model, forced with observed global sea surface temperatures (SST) realistically reproduce the observed warming trend as well as the spatial trend pattern. Model results further suggest that a significant fraction of the observed warming can be traced to a concurrent rise in SST in the equatorial Pacific and that the markedly different trends in cloud cover to the east and west of the Andes contributed to the weaker warming east of the Andes in the model. The observed increase in relative humidity, derived from CRU 05 data, is also apparent in the model simulations, but on a regional scale the results between model and observations vary significantly. It is argued that changes in temperature and humidity are the primary cause for the observed glacier retreat during the 2nd half of the 20th century in the tropical Andes. 相似文献
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长江源区近44年气候变化的若干统计分析 总被引：11，自引：1，他引：10
利用长江源区5个气象站44年的气温、降水量资料以及其中2个探空站500hPa露点资料,分析了该地区气候变化趋势、突变等情况。结果表明：近44年来长江源区气温普遍升高,冬季升温幅度较大,夏季增温趋势明显,进入21世纪后,长江源区春季平均气温在降低,夏、秋季平均气温增高较趋缓,而冬季增温加剧的趋势十分明显;年、夏季降水量变化呈微弱减少趋势,而冬、春和秋季降水量呈现出增加趋势,其中春季增幅较大,冬季增湿趋势明显;长江源区年平均气温在20世纪60年代末70年代初就显现出波动回升的趋势,在1986年前后发生了由冷到暖的突变,冬、春季降水量均在20世纪70年代和80年代出现了由少向多的突变。长江源区气候在波动性变暖变干过程中,自1986年起出现了气候转向暖湿的信号,其主要原因在于全球变暖并由此引起的海洋蒸发和陆地蒸散加强,地气水分循环加快,空中水汽输送加强。 相似文献
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A recent modelling study has shown that precipitation and runoff over land would increase when the reflectivity of marine clouds is increased to counter global warming. This implies that large scale albedo enhancement over land could lead to a decrease in runoff over land. In this study, we perform simulations using NCAR CAM3.1 that have implications for Solar Radiation Management geoengineering schemes that increase the albedo over land. We find that an increase in reflectivity over land that mitigates the global mean warming from a doubling of CO2 leads to a large residual warming in the southern hemisphere and cooling in the northern hemisphere since most of the land is located in northern hemisphere. Precipitation and runoff over land decrease by 13.4 and 22.3%, respectively, because of a large residual sinking motion over land triggered by albedo enhancement over land. Soil water content also declines when albedo over land is enhanced. The simulated magnitude of hydrological changes over land are much larger when compared to changes over oceans in the recent marine cloud albedo enhancement study since the radiative forcing over land needed (?8.2?W?m?2) to counter global mean radiative forcing from a doubling of CO2 (3.3?W?m?2) is approximately twice the forcing needed over the oceans (?4.2?W?m?2). Our results imply that albedo enhancement over oceans produce climates closer to the unperturbed climate state than do albedo changes on land when the consequences on land hydrology are considered. Our study also has important implications for any intentional or unintentional large scale changes in land surface albedo such as deforestation/afforestation/reforestation, air pollution, and desert and urban albedo modification. 相似文献