2018 , Vol. 33 >Issue 11: 1181 - 1192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2018.11.1181.
Advances and Challenges in the Study on the Tropical Rainfall Changes Under Global Warming*
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
Received date: 2018-06-06
Revised date: 2018-10-10
Online published: 2018-12-21
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.
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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.
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 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2018.11.1181.
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