期刊
CLIMATE DYNAMICS
卷 55, 期 9-10, 页码 2921-2937出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05426-9
关键词
Precipitation; precipitation recycling; WRF-WVT; Tibetan Plateau; lakes
资金
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA2006010202]
- Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research (STEP) program [2019QZKK010314]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91537105, 91537211]
- NCAR Water System Program
- Fudan University-Tibet University Joint Laboratory for Biodiversity and Global Change
The precipitation recycling (PR) ratio is an important indicator that quantifies the land-atmosphere interaction strength in the Earth system's water cycle. To better understand how the heterogeneous land surface in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) contributes to precipitation, we used the water-vapor tracer (WVT) method coupled with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) regional climate model. The goals were to quantify the PR ratio, in terms of annual mean, seasonal variability and diurnal cycle, and to address the relationships of the PR ratio with lake treatments and precipitation amount. Simulations showed that the PR ratio increases from 0.1 in winter to 0.4 in summer when averaged over the TP with the maxima centered at the headwaters of three major rivers (Yangtze, Yellow and Mekong). For the central TP, the highest PR ratio rose to over 0.8 in August, indicating that most of the precipitation was recycled via local evapotranspiration in summer. The larger daily mean and standard deviation of the PR ratio in summer suggested a stronger effect of land-atmosphere interactions on precipitation in summer than in winter. Despite the relatively small spatial extent of inland lakes, the treatment of lakes in WRF significantly impacted the calculation of the PR ratio over the TP, and correcting lake temperature substantially improved both precipitation and PR ratio simulations. There was no clear relationship between PR ratio and precipitation amount; however, a significant positive correlation between PR and convective precipitation was revealed. This study is beneficial for the understanding of land-atmosphere interaction over high mountain regions.
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