Advances in Earth Science ›› 2018, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (11): 1181-1192. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2018.11.1181.

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Advances and Challenges in the Study on the Tropical Rainfall Changes Under Global Warming *

Ping Huang 1, 2, 3( ), Shijie Zhou 2, 4   

  1. 1.Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100190,China
    2.State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029, China
    3.Joint Center for Global Change Studies (JCGCS), Beijing 100875, China
    4.University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2018-06-06 Revised:2018-10-10 Online:2018-11-20 Published:2018-12-21
  • About author:

    First author:Huang Ping (1982-), male, Zizhong County, Sichuan Province, Professor. Research areas include tropical air-sea interaction and climate change. E-mail: huangping@mail.iap.ac.cn

  • Supported by:
    Foundation item:Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China "Mechanisms of the response of tropical regional climate to global warming"(No.41722504);The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

Ping Huang, Shijie Zhou. Advances and Challenges in the Study on the Tropical Rainfall Changes Under Global Warming *[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2018, 33(11): 1181-1192.

Since tropical rainfall is important in the global energy and hydrologic cycle, the tropical rainfall changes under global warming have attracted extensive attention around the world in recent decades. The advances in the observational studies and model projection for the tropical rainfall changes under global warming were reviewed here. The frontiers in the mechanism of regional tropical rainfall changes and the approaches of rainfall change research are summarized. The large intermodel spread in the multi-model projections, the sources of uncertainty and the methods to reduce the uncertainty were also introduced. Finally, the challenges about the tropical rainfall changes were discussed.

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