{"id":15422,"date":"2013-03-22T16:06:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T02:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=15422"},"modified":"2020-11-13T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T02:52:04","slug":"uh-researcher-shows-global-monsoon-rainfall-has-intensified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/22\/uh-researcher-shows-global-monsoon-rainfall-has-intensified\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心视频<\/abbr> researcher shows global monsoon rainfall has intensified"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Three-layered cloud structure over Indian Ocean (photo by Owen Shieh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monsoon rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere impacts about 60 percent of the world population in Southeast Asia, West Africa and North America. Given the possible impacts of global warming, solid predictions of monsoon rainfall for the next decades are important for infrastructure planning and sustainable economic development. Such predictions, however, are very complex because they require not only pinning down how man made greenhouse gas emissions will impact the monsoons and monsoon rainfall, but also a knowledge of natural long-term climate swings, about which little is known so far.<\/p>\n

To tackle this problem Professor of Meteorology Bin Wang<\/strong>, from the International Pacific Research Center<\/a> at the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at Mānoa, and an international team of scientists examined climate data to see what happened in the Northern Hemisphere during the last three decades, a time during which the global-mean surface-air temperature rose by about 0.4°C. Current theory predicts that the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon circulation should weaken under anthropogenic global warming.<\/p>\n

Wang and his colleagues, however, found that over the past 30 years, the summer monsoon circulation, as well as the Hadley and the Walker circulations, have all substantially intensified. This intensification has resulted in significantly greater global summer monsoon rainfall in the Northern Hemisphere than predicted from greenhouse-gas-induced warming alone—namely a 9.5 percent increase, compared to the anthropogenic predicted contribution of 2.6 percent per degree of global warming.<\/p>\n

Most of the recent intensification is attributable to a cooling of the eastern Pacific that began in 1998. This cooling is the result of natural longterm swings in ocean surface temperatures.<\/p>\n

Their research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

“These natural swings in the climate system must be understood in order to make realistic predictions of monsoon rainfall and of other climate features in the coming decades,” said Wang. “We must be able to determine the relative contributions of greenhouse-gas emissions and of long-term natural swings to future climate change.”<\/p>\n

—A 糖心视频<\/abbr> Mānoa news release<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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