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Title: Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China

Abstract

We use 150 year preindustrial simulations of the Community Earth System Model to quantify the impacts of the East Asian Monsoon strength on interannual variations of springtime dust concentrations over China. The simulated interannual variations in March-April-May (MAM) dust column concentrations range between 20–40% and 10–60% over eastern and western China, respectively. The dust concentrations over eastern China correlate negatively with the East Asian Monsoon (EAM) index, which represents the strength of monsoon, with a regionally averaged correlation coefficient of 0.64. Relative to the strongest EAM years, MAMdust concentrations in the weakest EAM years are higher over China, with regional relative differences of 55.6%, 29.6%, and 13.9% in the run with emissions calculated interactively and of 33.8%, 10.3%, and 8.2% over eastern, central, and western China, respectively, in the run with prescribed emissions. Both interactive run and prescribed emission run show the similar pattern of climate change between the weakest and strongest EAM years. Strong anomalous northwesterly and westerly winds over the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts during the weakest EAM years result in larger transport fluxes, and thereby increase the dust concentrations over China. Here, these differences in dust concentrations between the weakest and strongest EAM years (weakest-strongest) lead tomore » the change in the net radiative forcing by up to -8 and -3Wm-2 at the surface, compared to -2.4 and +1.2Wm-2 at the top of the atmosphere over eastern and western China, respectively.« less

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  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
  3. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center; Battelle Memorial Inst.
OSTI Identifier:
1342313
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-120697
Journal ID: ISSN 2169-897X; KP1703010
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830; AC02‐05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 121; Journal Issue: 13; Journal ID: ISSN 2169-897X
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
58 GEOSCIENCES; East Asian monsoon; China; dust; atmospheric aerosol; monsoon

Citation Formats

Lou, Sijia, Russell, Lynn M., Yang, Yang, Xu, Li, Lamjiri, Maryam A., DeFlorio, Michael J., Miller, Arthur J., Ghan, Steven J., Liu, Ying, and Singh, Balwinder. Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1002/2016JD024758.
Lou, Sijia, Russell, Lynn M., Yang, Yang, Xu, Li, Lamjiri, Maryam A., DeFlorio, Michael J., Miller, Arthur J., Ghan, Steven J., Liu, Ying, & Singh, Balwinder. Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD024758
Lou, Sijia, Russell, Lynn M., Yang, Yang, Xu, Li, Lamjiri, Maryam A., DeFlorio, Michael J., Miller, Arthur J., Ghan, Steven J., Liu, Ying, and Singh, Balwinder. Mon . "Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JD024758. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1342313.
@article{osti_1342313,
title = {Impacts of the East Asian Monsoon on springtime dust concentrations over China},
author = {Lou, Sijia and Russell, Lynn M. and Yang, Yang and Xu, Li and Lamjiri, Maryam A. and DeFlorio, Michael J. and Miller, Arthur J. and Ghan, Steven J. and Liu, Ying and Singh, Balwinder},
abstractNote = {We use 150 year preindustrial simulations of the Community Earth System Model to quantify the impacts of the East Asian Monsoon strength on interannual variations of springtime dust concentrations over China. The simulated interannual variations in March-April-May (MAM) dust column concentrations range between 20–40% and 10–60% over eastern and western China, respectively. The dust concentrations over eastern China correlate negatively with the East Asian Monsoon (EAM) index, which represents the strength of monsoon, with a regionally averaged correlation coefficient of 0.64. Relative to the strongest EAM years, MAMdust concentrations in the weakest EAM years are higher over China, with regional relative differences of 55.6%, 29.6%, and 13.9% in the run with emissions calculated interactively and of 33.8%, 10.3%, and 8.2% over eastern, central, and western China, respectively, in the run with prescribed emissions. Both interactive run and prescribed emission run show the similar pattern of climate change between the weakest and strongest EAM years. Strong anomalous northwesterly and westerly winds over the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts during the weakest EAM years result in larger transport fluxes, and thereby increase the dust concentrations over China. Here, these differences in dust concentrations between the weakest and strongest EAM years (weakest-strongest) lead to the change in the net radiative forcing by up to -8 and -3Wm-2 at the surface, compared to -2.4 and +1.2Wm-2 at the top of the atmosphere over eastern and western China, respectively.},
doi = {10.1002/2016JD024758},
journal = {Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres},
number = 13,
volume = 121,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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