Mechanisms and impacts of Earth system tip** elements

S Wang, A Foster, EA Lenz, JD Kessler… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tip** elements are components of the Earth system which may respond nonlinearly to
anthropogenic climate change by transitioning toward substantially different long‐term …

Monsoons, ITCZs, and the concept of the global monsoon

R Geen, S Bordoni, DS Battisti, K Hui - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's tropical and subtropical rainbands, such as Intertropical Convergence Zones (ITCZs)
and monsoons, are complex systems, governed by both large‐scale constraints on the …

Historic Yangtze flooding of 2020 tied to extreme Indian Ocean conditions

ZQ Zhou, SP **e, R Zhang - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Heavy monsoon rainfall ravaged a large swath of East Asia in summer 2020. Severe
flooding of the Yangtze River displaced millions of residents in the midst of a historic public …

Extremely hot East Asia and flooding western South Asia in the summer of 2022 tied to reversed flow over Tibetan Plateau

C He, T Zhou, L Zhang, X Chen, W Zhang - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
In the summer (July and August) of 2022, unprecedented heat wave occurred along the
Yangtze River Valley (YRV) over East Asia while unprecedented flood occurred over …

Record‐breaking Meiyu rainfall around the Yangtze River in 2020 regulated by the subseasonal phase transition of the North Atlantic Oscillation

B Liu, Y Yan, C Zhu, S Ma, J Li - Geophysical Research Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In 2020, the Yangtze River (YR) suffered a long‐persisting Meiyu season. The
accumulated rainfall broke its record since 1961 and caused severe flooding and death in …

Enhanced Meiyu‐Baiu rainfall in early summer 2020: Aftermath of the 2019 super IOD event

Y Takaya, I Ishikawa, C Kobayashi… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In early summer 2020, the Meiyu‐Baiu rainfall was markedly enhanced, triggering
devastating floods in Japan and central China. We examined the underlying processes …

Why has the inner Tibetan Plateau become wetter since the mid-1990s?

J Sun, K Yang, W Guo, Y Wang, J He… - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Inner Tibetan Plateau (ITP; also called the Qiangtang Plateau) appears to have
experienced an overall wetting in summer (June, July, and August) since the mid-1990s …

Tibetan Plateau climate dynamics: recent research progress and outlook

G Wu, A Duan, Y Liu, J Mao, R Ren, Q Bao… - National Science …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
This paper reviews progress in the study of Tibetan Plateau (TP) climate dynamics over the
past decade. Several theoretical frameworks, including thermal adaptation and the TP …

Hydroclimate footprint of pan-Asian monsoon water isotope during the last deglaciation

C He, Z Liu, BL Otto-Bliesner, EC Brady, C Zhu… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Oxygen isotope speleothem records exhibit coherent variability over the pan-Asian summer
monsoon (AM) region. The hydroclimatic representation of these oxygen isotope records for …

The record-breaking Mei-yu in 2020 and associated atmospheric circulation and tropical SST anomalies

Y Ding, Y Liu, ZZ Hu - Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The record-breaking mei-yu in the Yangtze-Huaihe River valley (YHRV) in 2020 was
characterized by an early onset, a delayed retreat, a long duration, a wide meridional …