Advances in Earth Science ›› 2016, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 248-257. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2016.03.0248.

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Aerosol’s Impacts on the Indian Summer Monsoon and the East Asian Summer Monsoon:An Overview

Wenxi Lu( ), Jian Wu( )   

  1. Department of Atmospheric Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China
  • Received:2015-12-03 Revised:2016-02-04 Online:2016-03-20 Published:2016-03-10
  • About author:

    First author:Lu Wenxi(1991-),female,Kunming City, Yunnan Province,Master student. Research area include climate effects of aerosol.E-mail:luwx_ynu@163.com

    Corresponding author:Wu Jian(1973-),male,Kunming City, Yunnan Province,Professor. Research areas include atmospheric environment and climate change and atmospheric boundary layer physics.E-mail:wujian@ynu.edu.cn

  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China “The analysis and simulation of reduction in light rain in the recent 50 years of China”(No.41275162)

Wenxi Lu, Jian Wu. Aerosol’s Impacts on the Indian Summer Monsoon and the East Asian Summer Monsoon:An Overview[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2016, 31(3): 248-257.

India Peninsula and East Asia are high aerosol loading regions as well as major regions influenced by Asian monsoon. The changes of monsoon intensity and precipitation have great influence on economy, especially agricultural production of monsoon regions. There are many researches of impacts of aerosol on Indian monsoon, which have achieved many comprehensive progresses. Earlier researches show that atmospheric brown cloud caused negative radiative forcing and weakened the warming induced by greenhouse gases. Current researches show that absorbing aerosol enhanced the Indian monsoon and increased rainfall in pre-monsoon season, while the scattering effect of aerosol weakened the Indian summer monsoon and the East Asian summer monsoon and rainfall in monsoon season. Due to so many factors affecting the monsoon, researches of aerosol impacts on monsoon become more complex. Thus, these results remain uncertain. This paper reviews previous researches and generalizes the mechanisms of impacts of aerosols on Asian monsoon. By comparing the East Asian summer monsoon with the Indian summer monsoon, we discussed deficiencies of the prior researches, and pointed out the direction for future researches about the impact of aerosol on the Asian summer monsoon, especially on the East Asian summer monsoon.

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