Research on monsoon formation and behavior can help inform climate models.
Monsoons may cause heavy rainfall associated with flooding and mudslides, but sometimes they provide a vital source of water needed for growing crops. Accurate forecast of monsoons and prediction of climate changes that drive these events could help communities to better prepare and make plans.
A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have conducted a series of model perturbation experiments, producing datasets that can help improve these predictions. The model design, experiments and datasets from the simulations are described in a paper published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on December 10, 2019.
A monsoon is a seasonal change in atmospheric circulation or prevailing wind direction associated with corresponding changes in precipitation resulting from uneven heating of sea and land surfaces. Monsoons blow from cold regions to warm regions, and are responsible for wet and dry seasons in the tropics.
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