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The impact of future climate change on West African crop yields: What does the recent literature say? 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Philippe Roudier Benjamin SultanPhilippe Quirion Alexis Berg 《Global Environmental Change》2011,21(3):1073-1083
In West Africa, agriculture, mainly rainfed, is a major economic sector and the one most vulnerable to climate change. A meta-database of future crop yields, built up from 16 recent studies, is used to provide an overall assessment of the potential impact of climate change on yields, and to analyze sources of uncertainty.Despite a large dispersion of yield changes ranging from −50% to +90%, the median is a yield loss near −11%. This negative impact is assessed by both empirical and process-based crop models whereas the Ricardian approach gives very contrasted results, even within a single study. The predicted impact is larger in northern West Africa (Sudano-Sahelian countries, −18% median response) than in southern West Africa (Guinean countries, −13%) which is likely due to drier and warmer projections in the northern part of West Africa. Moreover, negative impacts on crop productivity increase in severity as warming intensifies, with a median yield loss near −15% with most intense warming, highlighting the importance of global warming mitigation.The consistently negative impact of climate change results mainly from the temperature whose increase projected by climate models is much larger relative to precipitation change. However, rainfall changes, still uncertain in climate projections, have the potential to exacerbate or mitigate this impact depending on whether rainfall decreases or increases. Finally, results highlight the pivotal role that the carbon fertilization effect may have on the sign and amplitude of change in crop yields. This effect is particularly strong for a high carbon dioxide concentration scenario and for C3 crops (e.g. soybean, cassava). As staple crops are mainly C4 (e.g. maize, millet, sorghum) in WA, this positive effect is less significant for the region. 相似文献
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A regional climate model simulation over West Africa: parameterization tests and analysis of land-surface fields 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
The West African Monsoon has been simulated with the regional climate model PROMES, coupled to the land-surface model ORCHIDEE
and nested in ECMWF analysis, within AMMA-EU project. Three different runs are presented to address the influence of changes
in two parameterizations (moist convection and radiation) on the simulated West African Monsoon. Another aim of the study
is to get an insight into the relationship of simulated precipitation and 2-m temperature with land-surface fluxes. To this
effect, data from the AMMA land-surface model intercomparison project (ALMIP) have been used. In ALMIP, offline simulations
have been made using the same land-surface model than in the coupled simulation presented here, which makes ALMIP data particularly
relevant for the present study, as it enables us to analyse the simulated soil and land-surface fields. The simulation of
the monsoon depends clearly on the two analysed parameterizations. The inclusion of shallow convection parametrization affects
the intensity of the simulated monsoon precipitation and modifies some dynamical aspects of the monsoon. The use of a fractional
cloud-cover parameterization and a more complex radiation scheme is important for better reproducing the amplitude of the
latitudinal displacement of the precipitation band. This is associated to an improved simulation of the surface temperature
field and the easterly jets. However, the parameterization changes do not affect the timing of the main rainy and break periods
of the monsoon. A better representation of downward solar radiation is associated with a smaller bias in the surface heat
fluxes. The comparison with ALMIP land-surface and soil fields shows that precipitation and temperature biases in the regional
climate model simulation are associated to certain biases in land-surface fluxes. The biases in soil moisture seem to be driven
by atmospheric biases as they are strongly affected by the parameterization changes in atmospheric processes. 相似文献
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General circulation models still show deficiencies in simulating the basic features of the West African Monsoon at intraseasonal,
seasonal and interannual timescales. It is however, difficult to disentangle the remote versus regional factors that contribute
to such deficiencies, and to diagnose their possible consequences for the simulation of the global atmospheric variability.
The aim of the present study is to address these questions using the so-called grid point nudging technique, where prognostic
atmospheric fields are relaxed either inside or outside the West African Monsoon region toward the ERA40 reanalysis. This
regional or quasi-global nudging is tested in ensembles of boreal summer simulations. The impact is evaluated first on the
model climatology, then on intraseasonal timescales with an emphasis on North Atlantic/Europe weather regimes, and finally
on interannual timescales. Results show that systematic biases in the model climatology over West Africa are mostly of regional
origin and have a limited impact outside the domain. A clear impact is found however on the eddy component of the extratropical
circulation, in particular over the North Atlantic/European sector. At intraseasonal timescale, the main regional biases also
resist to the quasi-global nudging though their magnitude is reduced. Conversely, nudging the model over West Africa exerts
a strong impact on the frequency of the two North Atlantic weather regimes that favor the occurrence of heat waves over Europe.
Significant impacts are also found at interannual timescale. Not surprisingly, the quasi-global nudging allows the model to
capture the variability of large-scale dynamical monsoon indices, but exerts a weaker control on rainfall variability suggesting
the additional contribution of regional processes. Conversely, nudging the model toward West Africa suppresses the spurious
ENSO teleconnection that is simulated over Europe in the control experiment, thereby emphasizing the relevance of a realistic
West African monsoon simulation for seasonal prediction in the extratropics. Further experiments will be devoted to case studies
aiming at a better understanding of regional processes governing the monsoon variability and of the possible monsoon teleconnections,
especially over Europe. 相似文献
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Babatunde J. Abiodun Zachariah D. Adeyewa Philip G. Oguntunde Ayobami T. Salami Vincent O. Ajayi 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2012,110(1-2):77-96
This study investigates the potential impacts of reforestation in West Africa on the projected regional climate in the near two decades (2031–2050) under the SRES A1B scenario. A regional climate model (RegCM3) forced with a global circulation model (ECHAM5) simulations was used for the study. The study evaluates the capability of the regional model in simulating the present-day climate over West Africa, projects the future climate over the region and investigates impacts of seven hypothetical reforestation options on the projected future climate. Three of these reforestation options assume zonal reforestation over West Africa (i.e., over the Sahel, Savanna and Guinea), while the other four assume random reforestation over Nigeria. With the elevated GHGs (A1B scenario), a warmer and drier climate is projected over West Africa in 2031–2050. The maximum warming (+2.5°C) and drying (?2?mm?day?1) occur in the western part of the Sahel because the West Africa Monsoon (WAM) flow is stronger and deflects the cool moist air more eastward, thereby lowering the warming and drying in the eastern part. In the simulations, reforestation reduces the projected warming and drying over the reforested zones but increases them outside the zones because it influences the northward progression of WAM in summer. It reduces the speed of the flow by weakening the temperature gradient that drives the flow and by increasing the surface drag on the flow over the reforested zone. Hence, in summer, the reforestation delays the onset of monsoon flow in transporting cool moist air over the area located downwind of the reforested zone, consequently enhancing the projected warming and drying over the area. The impact of reforesting Nigeria is not limited to the country; while it lowers the warming over part of the country (and over Togo), it increases the warming over Chad and Cameroon. This study, therefore, suggests that using reforestation to mitigate the projected future climate change in West Africa could have both positive and negative impacts on the regional climate, reducing temperature in some places and increasing it in others. Hence, reforestation in West Africa requires a mutual agreement among the West African nations because the impacts of reforestation do not recognize political boundaries. 相似文献
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Previous studies have highlighted the crucial role of land degradation in tropical African climate. This effect urgently has
to be taken into account when predicting future African climate under enhanced greenhouse conditions. Here, we present time
slice experiments of African climate until 2025, using a high-resolution regional climate model. A supposable scenario of
future land use changes, involving vegetation loss and soil degradation, is prescribed simultaneously with increasing greenhouse-gas
concentrations in order to detect, where the different forcings counterbalance or reinforce each other. This proceeding allows
us to define the regions of highest vulnerability with respect to future freshwater availability and food security in tropical
and subtropical Africa and may provide a decision basis for political measures. The model simulates a considerable reduction
in precipitation amount until 2025 over most of tropical Africa, amounting to partly more than 500 mm (20–40% of the annual
sum), particularly in the Congo Basin and the Sahel Zone. The change is strongest in boreal summer and basically reflects
the pattern of maximum vegetation cover during the seasonal cycle. The related change in the surface energy fluxes induces
a substantial near-surface warming by up to 7°C. According to the modified temperature gradients over tropical Africa, the
summer monsoon circulation intensifies and transports more humid air masses into the southern part of West Africa. This humidifying
effect is overcompensated by a remarkable decrease in surface evaporation, leading to the overall drying tendency over most
of Africa. Extreme daily rainfall events become stronger in autumn but less intense in spring. Summer and autumn appear to
be characterized by more severe heat waves over Subsaharan West Africa. In addition, the Tropical Easterly Jet is weakening,
leading to enhanced drought conditions in the Sahel Zone. All these results suggest that the local impact of land degradation
and reduction of vegetation cover may be more important in tropical Africa than the global radiative heating, at least until
2025. This implies that vegetation protection measures at a national scale may directly lead to a mitigation of the expected
negative implications of future climate change in tropical Africa. 相似文献
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Dependence of Indian monsoon rainfall on moisture fluxes across the Arabian Sea and the impact of coupled model sea surface temperature biases 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
The Arabian Sea is an important moisture source for Indian monsoon rainfall. The skill of climate models in simulating the monsoon and its variability varies widely, while Arabian Sea cold sea surface temperature (SST) biases are common in coupled models and may therefore influence the monsoon and its sensitivity to climate change. We examine the relationship between monsoon rainfall, moisture fluxes and Arabian Sea SST in observations and climate model simulations. Observational analysis shows strong monsoons depend on moisture fluxes across the Arabian Sea, however detecting consistent signals with contemporaneous summer SST anomalies is complicated in the observed system by air/sea coupling and large-scale induced variability such as the El Ni?o-Southern Oscillation feeding back onto the monsoon through development of the Somali Jet. Comparison of HadGEM3 coupled and atmosphere-only configurations suggests coupled model cold SST biases significantly reduce monsoon rainfall. Idealised atmosphere-only experiments show that the weakened monsoon can be mainly attributed to systematic Arabian Sea cold SST biases during summer and their impact on the monsoon-moisture relationship. The impact of large cold SST biases on atmospheric moisture content over the Arabian Sea, and also the subsequent reduced latent heat release over India, dominates over any enhancement in the land-sea temperature gradient and results in changes to the mean state. We hypothesize that a cold base state will result in underestimation of the impact of larger projected Arabian Sea SST changes in future climate, suggesting that Arabian Sea biases should be a clear target for model development. 相似文献
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Emmanouil Flaounas Serge Janicot Sophie Bastin Rémy Roca Elsa Mohino 《Climate Dynamics》2012,38(5-6):965-983
In spring the inland penetration of the West African Monsoon (WAM) is weak and the associated rainband is located over the Guinean coast. Then within a few days deep convection weakens considerably and the rainband reappears about 20?days after over the Sahel, where it remains until late September signalling the summer rainy season. Over the period 1989–2008 a teleconnection induced by the Indian monsoon onset is shown to have a significant impact on the WAM onset, by performing composite analyses on both observational data sets and atmospheric general circulation model simulations ensembles where the model is nudged to observations over the Indian monsoon sector. The initiation of convective activity over the Indian subcontinent north of 15°N at the time of the Indian monsoon onset results in a westward propagating Rossby wave establishing over North Africa 7–15?days after. A back-trajectory analysis shows that during this period, dry air originating from the westerly subtropical jet entrance is driven to subside and move southward over West Africa inhibiting convection there. At the same time the low-level pressure field over West Africa reinforces the moisture transport inland. After the passage of the wave, the dry air intrusions weaken drastically. Hence 20?days after the Indian monsoon onset, convection is released over the Sahel where thermodynamic conditions are more favourable. This scenario is very similar in the observations and in the nudged simulations, meaning that the Indian monsoon onset is instrumental in the WAM onset and its predictability at intraseasonal scale. 相似文献
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Zhengxi Tan Larry L. Tieszen Shuguang Liu Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng 《Climatic change》2010,100(3-4):703-715
Many savannas in West Africa have been converted to croplands and are among the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change due to deteriorating soil quality. We focused on the savanna-derived cropland in northern Ghana to simulate its sensitivity to projected climate change and nitrogen fertilization scenarios. Here we show that progressive warming–drying stress over the twenty-first century will enhance soil carbon emissions from all kinds of lands of which the natural ecosystems will be more vulnerable to variation in climate variables, particularly in annual precipitation. The carbon emissions from all croplands, however, could be mitigated by applying nitrogen fertilizer at 30–60 kg N ha???1 year???1. The uncertainties of soil organic carbon budgets and crop yields depend mainly on the nitrogen fertilization rate during the first 40 years and then are dominated by climate drying stress. The replenishment of soil nutrients, especially of nitrogen through fertilization, could be one of the priority options for policy makers and farm managers as they evaluate mitigation and adaptation strategies of cropping systems and management practices to sustain agriculture and ensure food security under a changing climate. 相似文献
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A regional climate model, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model, is forced with increased atmospheric CO2 and anomalous SSTs and lateral boundary conditions derived from nine coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models to produce an ensemble set of nine future climate simulations for northern Africa at the end of the twenty-first century. A well validated control simulation, agreement among ensemble members, and a physical understanding of the future climate change enhance confidence in the predictions. The regional model ensembles produce consistent precipitation projections over much of northern tropical Africa. A moisture budget analysis is used to identify the circulation changes that support future precipitation anomalies. The projected midsummer drought over the Guinean Coast region is related partly to weakened monsoon flow. Since the rainfall maximum demonstrates a southward bias in the control simulation in July–August, this may be indicative of future summer drying over the Sahel. Wetter conditions in late summer over the Sahel are associated with enhanced moisture transport by the West African westerly jet, a strengthening of the jet itself, and moisture transport from the Mediterranean. Severe drought in East Africa during August and September is accompanied by a weakened Indian monsoon and Somali jet. Simulations with projected and idealized SST forcing suggest that overall SST warming in part supports this regional model ensemble agreement, although changes in SST gradients are important over West Africa in spring and fall. Simulations which isolate the role of individual climate forcings suggest that the spatial distribution of the rainfall predictions is controlled by the anomalous SST and lateral boundary conditions, while CO2 forcing within the regional model domain plays an important secondary role and generally produces wetter conditions. 相似文献
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The regional climate model (MAR) is used to perform a simulation of the year 1992 over West Africa. It is shown that MAR is
able to simulate the main features of the rainy regime over West Africa and especially the discontinuous seasonal progression
of the West African Monsoon along the year. One particular feature that is reasonably well reproduced is the abrupt shift
of the rain band from 5° to 10°N at the end of June (also called “monsoon jump”). This study suggests that such a phenomenon
is associated with the shift of the Saharan heat low between two favourite positions: one being over the Sahelian area (10–15°N)
and the other over the Saharan area (20–25°N). These two favourite locations of the heat low are linked to the spatial distribution
of surface albedo over West Africa that drives the spatio-temporal location of the surface temperature maxima. A detailed
analysis of this “monsoon jump” is performed and the causes of the strong decrease in precipitation that precedes the northward
shift of the rain band are also investigated. 相似文献
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There are many indicators that human activity may change climate conditions all around the globe through emissions of greenhouse
gases. In addition, aerosol particles are emitted from various natural and anthropogenic sources. One important source of
aerosols arises from biomass burning, particularly in low latitudes where shifting cultivation and land degradation lead to
enhanced aerosol burden. In this study the counteracting effects of greenhouse gases and aerosols on African climate are compared
using climate model experiments with fully interactive aerosols from different sources. The consideration of aerosol emissions
induces a remarkable decrease in short-wave solar irradiation near the surface, especially in winter and autumn in tropical
West Africa and the Congo Basin where biomass burning is mainly prevailing. This directly leads to a modification of the surface
energy budget with reduced sensible heat fluxes. As a consequence, temperature decreases, compensating the strong warming
signal due to enhanced trace gas concentrations. While precipitation in tropical Africa is less sensitive to the greenhouse
warming, it tends to decrease, if the effect of aerosols from biomass burning is taken into account. This is partly due to
the local impact of enhanced aerosol burden and partly to modifications of the large-scale monsoon circulation in the lower
troposphere, usually lagging behind the season with maximum aerosol emissions. In the model equilibrium experiments, the greenhouse
gas impact on temperature stands out from internal variability at various time scales from daily to decadaland the same holds
for precipitation under the additional aerosol forcing. Greenhouse gases and aerosols exhibit an opposite effect on daily
temperature extremes, resulting in an compensation of the individual responses under the combined forcing. In terms of precipitation,
daily extreme events tend to be reduced under aerosol forcing, particularly over the tropical Atlantic and the Congo basin.
These results suggest that the simulation of the multiple aerosol effects from anthropogenic sources represents an important
factor in tropical climate change, hence, requiring more attention in climate modelling attempts. 相似文献
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In a context of increased demand for food and of climate change, the water consumptions associated with the agricultural practice of irrigation focuses attention. In order to analyze the global influence of irrigation on the water cycle, the land surface model ORCHIDEE is coupled to the GCM LMDZ to simulate the impact of irrigation on climate. A 30-year simulation which takes into account irrigation is compared with a simulation which does not. Differences are usually not significant on average over all land surfaces but hydrological variables are significantly affected by irrigation over some of the main irrigated river basins. Significant impacts over the Mississippi river basin are shown to be contrasted between eastern and western regions. An increase in summer precipitation is simulated over the arid western region in association with enhanced evapotranspiration whereas a decrease in precipitation occurs over the wet eastern part of the basin. Over the Indian peninsula where irrigation is high during winter and spring, a delay of 6?days is found for the mean monsoon onset date when irrigation is activated, leading to a significant decrease in precipitation during May to July. Moreover, the higher decrease occurs in June when the water requirements by crops are maximum, exacerbating water scarcity in this region. A significant cooling of the land surfaces occurs during the period of high irrigation leading to a decrease of the land-sea heat contrast in June, which delays the monsoon onset. 相似文献
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Elsa Mohino Serge Janicot Hervé Douville Laurent Z. X. Li 《Climate Dynamics》2012,38(11-12):2319-2334
Observational evidence suggests a link between the summer Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) and anomalous convection over West Africa. This link is further studied with the help of the LMDZ atmospheric general circulation model. The approach is based on nudging the model towards the reanalysis in the Asian monsoon region. The simulation successfully captures the convection associated with the summer MJO in the nudging region. Outside this region the model is free to evolve. Over West Africa it simulates convection anomalies that are similar in magnitude, structure, and timing to the observed ones. In accordance with the observations, the simulation shows that 15–20?days after the maximum increase (decrease) of convection in the Indian Ocean there is a significant reduction (increase) in West African convection. The simulation strongly suggests that in addition to the eastward-moving MJO signal, the westward propagation of a convectively coupled equatorial Rossby wave is needed to explain the overall impact of the MJO on convection over West Africa. These results highlight the use of MJO events to potentially predict regional-scale anomalous convection and rainfall spells over West Africa with a time lag of approximately 15–20?days. 相似文献
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Effects of crop growth and development on regional climate: a case study over East Asian monsoon area 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In this study, the CERES phenological growth and development functions were implemented into the regional climate model, RegCM3 to give a model denoted as RegCM3_CERES. This model was used to represent interactions between regional climate and crop growth processes. The effects of crop growth and development processes on regional climate were then studied based on two 20-year simulations over the East Asian monsoon area conducted using the original regional climate model RegCM3, and the coupled RegCM3_CERES model. The numerical experiments revealed that incorporating the crop growth and development processes into the regional climate model reduced the root mean squared error of the simulated precipitation by 2.2–10.7% over north China, and the simulated temperature by 5.5–30.9% over the monsoon region in eastern China. Comparison of the simulated results obtained using RegCM3_CERES and RegCM3 showed that the most significant changes associated with crop modeling were the changes in leaf area index which in turn modify the aspects of surface energy and water partitions and lead to moderate changes in surface temperature and, to some extent, rainfall. Further analysis revealed that a robust representation of seasonal changes in plant growth and developmental processes in the regional climate model changed the surface heat and moisture fluxes by modifying the vegetation characteristics, and that these differences in simulated surface fluxes resulted in different structures of the boundary layer and ultimately affected the convection. The variations in leaf area index and fractional vegetation cover changed the distribution of evapotranspiration and heat fluxes, which could potentially lead to anomalies in geopotential height, and consequently influenced the overlying atmospheric circulation. These changes would result in redistribution of the water and energy through advection. Nevertheless, there are significant uncertainties in modeling how monsoon dynamics responds to crop modeling and more research is needed. 相似文献
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The impact of climate change on agriculture has received wide attention by the scientific community. This paper studies how to assess the grain yield impact of climate change, according to the climate change over a long time period in the future as predicted by a climate system model. The application of the concept of a traditional "yield impact of meteorological factor (YIMF)" or "yield impact of weather factor" to the grain yield assessment of a decadal or even a longer timescale would be suffocated at the outset because the YIMF is for studying the phenomenon on an interannual timescale, and it is difficult to distinguish between the trend caused by climate change and the one resulting from changes in non-climatic factors. Therefore, the concept of the yield impact of climatic change (YICC), which is defined as the difference in the per unit area yields (PUAY) of a grain crop under a changing and an envisaged invariant climate conditions, is presented in this paper to assess the impact of global climate change on grain yields. The climatic factor has been introduced into the renowned economic Cobb-Douglas model, yielding a quantitative assessment method of YICC using real data. The method has been tested using the historical data of Northeast China, and the results show that it has an encouraging application outlook. 相似文献
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Aaron Anthony Boone Isabelle Poccard-Leclercq Yongkang Xue Jinming Feng Patricia de Rosnay 《Climate Dynamics》2010,35(1):127-142
The West African monsoon (WAM) circulation and intensity have been shown to be influenced by the land surface in numerous
numerical studies using regional scale and global scale atmospheric climate models (RCMs and GCMs, respectively) over the
last several decades. The atmosphere–land surface interactions are modulated by the magnitude of the north–south gradient
of the low level moist static energy, which is highly correlated with the steep latitudinal gradients of the vegetation characteristics
and coverage, land use, and soil properties over this zone. The African Multidisciplinary Monsoon Analysis (AMMA) has organised
comprehensive activities in data collection and modelling to further investigate the significance land–atmosphere feedbacks.
Surface energy fluxes simulated by an ensemble of land surface models from AMMA Land-surface Model Intercomparison Project
(ALMIP) have been used as a proxy for the best estimate of the “real world” values in order to evaluate GCM and RCM simulations
under the auspices of the West African Monsoon Modelling Experiment (WAMME) project, since such large-scale observations do
not exist. The ALMIP models have been forced in off-line mode using forcing based on a mixture of satellite, observational,
and numerical weather prediction data. The ALMIP models were found to agree well over the region where land–atmosphere coupling
is deemed to be most important (notably the Sahel), with a high signal to noise ratio (generally from 0.7 to 0.9) in the ensemble
and a inter-model coefficient of variation between 5 and 15%. Most of the WAMME models simulated spatially averaged net radiation
values over West Africa which were consistent with the ALMIP estimates, however, the partitioning of this energy between sensible
and latent heat fluxes was significantly different: WAMME models tended to simulate larger (by nearly a factor of two) monthly
latent heat fluxes than ALMIP. This results due to a positive precipitation bias in the WAMME models and a northward displacement
of the monsoon in most of the GCMs and RCMs. Another key feature not found in the WAMME models is peak seasonal latent heat
fluxes during the monsoon retreat (approximately a month after the peak precipitation rates) from soil water stores. This
is likely related to the WAMME northward bias of the latent heat flux gradient during the WAM onset. 相似文献
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Agricultural drought in a future climate: results from 15 global climate models participating in the IPCC 4th assessment 总被引:8,自引:0,他引:8
Guiling Wang 《Climate Dynamics》2005,25(7-8):739-753
This study examines the impact of greenhouse gas warming on soil moisture based on predictions of 15 global climate models
by comparing the after-stabilization climate in the SRESA1b experiment with the pre-industrial control climate. The models
are consistent in predicting summer dryness and winter wetness in only part of the northern middle and high latitudes. Slightly
over half of the models predict year-round wetness in central Eurasia and/or year-round dryness in Siberia and mid-latitude
Northeast Asia. One explanation is offered that relates such lack of seasonality to the carryover effect of soil moisture
storage from season to season. In the tropics and subtropics, a decrease of soil moisture is the dominant response. The models
are especially consistent in predicting drier soil over the southwest North America, Central America, the Mediterranean, Australia,
and the South Africa in all seasons, and over much of the Amazon and West Africa in the June–July–August (JJA) season and
the Asian monsoon region in the December–January–February (DJF) season. Since the only major areas of future wetness predicted
with a high level of model consistency are part of the northern middle and high latitudes during the non-growing season, it
is suggested that greenhouse gas warming will cause a worldwide agricultural drought. Over regions where there is considerable
consistency among the analyzed models in predicting the sign of soil moisture changes, there is a wide range of magnitudes
of the soil moisture response, indicating a high degree of model dependency in terrestrial hydrological sensitivity. A major
part of the inter-model differences in the sensitivity of soil moisture response are attributable to differences in land surface
parameterization. 相似文献
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Multiyear simulation of the African climate using a regional climate model (RegCM3) with the high resolution ERA-interim reanalysis 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla E. Coppola L. Mariotti F. Giorgi P. M. Ruti A. Dell’Aquila X. Bi 《Climate Dynamics》2010,35(1):231-247
This study examines the ability of the latest version of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) regional
climate model (RegCM3) to reproduce seasonal mean climatologies, annual cycle and interannual variability over the entire
African continent and different climate subregions. The new European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA-interim
reanalysis is used to provide initial and lateral boundary conditions for the RegCM3 simulation. Seasonal mean values of zonal
wind profile, temperature, precipitation and associated low level circulations are shown to be realistically simulated, although
the regional model still shows some deficiencies. The West Africa monsoon flow is somewhat overestimated and the Africa Easterly
Jet (AEJ) core intensity is underestimated. Despite these biases, there is a marked improvement in these simulated model variables
compared to previous applications of this model over Africa. The mean annual cycle of precipitation, including single and
multiple rainy seasons, is well captured over most African subregions, in some cases even improving the quality of the ERA-interim
reanalysis. Similarly, the observed precipitation interannual variability is well reproduced by the regional model over most
regions, mostly following, and sometimes improving, the quality of the ERA-interim reanalysis. It is assessed that the performance
of this model over the entire African domain is of sufficient quality for application to the study of climate change and climate
variability over the African continent. 相似文献
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在河南省6种雨型的基础上,分析了物理要素海温、季风、西太平洋副高及气候因子和河南省汛期降水的关系,给出了河南省汛期降水的气候预测概念模型。通过逻辑推理,可以具体预测雨型。 相似文献
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Summary Previous studies have highlighted the crucial role of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the tropical Atlantic region
in forcing the summer monsoon rainfall over subsaharan West Africa. Understanding the physical processes, relating SST variations
to changes in the amount and distribution of African rainfall, is a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts
in this highly vulnerable region.
Here, we present sensitivity experiments from a regional climate model with prescribed warmer tropical SSTs, according to
enhanced greenhouse conditions at the end of the 21st century. This dynamical downscaling approach provides information about
the nonlinear response of the atmosphere to oceanic heating. It has been suggested that the response is at least partly accounted
for by the linear theory of tropical dynamics, involving a Kelvin and Rossby wave response to a tropical heat source. We compute
the major modes of the linear Matsuno-Gill model for geopotential height and horizontal wind components and project the simulated
response patterns onto these linear modes, in order to evaluate to which extent the simple linear theory may explain the SST-induced
climate anomalies over Africa. A multivariate Hotelling T2 test is used to evaluate whether these anomalies are statistically significant.
Forcing the regional climate model by warmer SSTs leads to substantial climate anomalies over tropical Africa: Rainfall is
increases over the Guinea Coast region (GCR) and tropical East Africa, but decreases over the Congo Basin and the Sahel Zone
(SHZ). At the 850 hPa level, a trough develops over southern West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea, and is associated with stronger
surface wind convergence over the GCR. These changes in the atmospheric dynamics strongly project onto the leading modes of
the linear Matsuno-Gill model at various zonal wave numbers. The corresponding atmospheric heating pattern is highly reminiscent
of the simulated nonlinear model reponse. The T2 test statistics reveal that the SST forcing induces a statistically significant climate anomaly over tropical Africa if the
climate state vector is reduced by projecting the simulated data onto the leading 10 linear modes. It is also shown that the
linear response prevails in a long-term simulation with more realistic lower and lateral boundary conditions. Thus, linear
tropical dynamics are assumed to be a major physical process on the ground of the prominent SST-African rainfall relationship. 相似文献