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JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
Volume 28, Issue 10, Pages 4185-4197Publisher
AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00581.1
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2013CB956004]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41322033]
- 100-Talent program - Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy through the Regional and Global Climate Modeling program
- Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute [DE-AC05-76RL01830]
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Net precipitation [precipitation minus evapotranspiration (P - E)] changes between 1979 and 2011 from a high-resolution regional climate simulation and its reanalysis forcing are analyzed over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and compared to the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) product. The high-resolution simulation better resolves precipitation changes than its coarse-resolution forcing, which contributes dominantly to the improved P - E change in the regional simulation compared to the global reanalysis. Hence, the former may provide better insights about the drivers of P - E changes. The mechanism behind the P - E changes is explored by decomposing the column integrated moisture flux convergence into thermodynamic, dynamic, and transient eddy components. High-resolution climate simulation improves the spatial pattern of P - E changes over the best available global reanalysis. High-resolution climate simulation also facilitates new and substantial findings regarding the role of thermodynamics and transient eddies in P - E changes reflected in observed changes in major river basins fed by runoff from the TP. The analysis reveals the contrasting convergence/divergence changes between the northwestern and southeastern TP and feedback through latent heat release as an important mechanism leading to the mean P - E changes in the TP.
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