DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50678
论文题名: The effect of volcanic eruptions on global precipitation
作者: Iles C.E. ; Hegerl G.C. ; Schurer A.P. ; Zhang X.
刊名: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
ISSN: 21698996
出版年: 2013
卷: 118, 期: 16 起始页码: 8770
结束页码: 8786
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Atmospheric aerosols
; Global warming
; Volcanoes
; Aerosol optical depths
; Global precipitation
; Influence of ENSO
; Mean precipitation
; Near surface air temperature
; Precipitation data
; Temperature contrast
; Volcanic eruptions
; Precipitation (meteorology)
; climate modeling
; climatology
; El Nino-Southern Oscillation
; global warming
; numerical model
; precipitation (climatology)
; timescale
; volcanic eruption
英文摘要: We examine robust features of the global precipitation response to 18 large low-latitude volcanic eruptions using an ensemble of last millennium simulations from the climate model HadCM3. We then test whether these features can be detected in observational land precipitation data following five twentieth century eruptions. The millennium simulations show a significant reduction in global mean precipitation following eruptions, in agreement with previous studies. Further, we find that the response over ocean remains significant for around 5 years and matches the timescale of the near-surface air temperature response. In contrast, the land precipitation response remains significant for 3 years and reacts faster than land temperature, correlating with aerosol optical depth and a reduction in land-ocean temperature contrast. In the tropics, areas experiencing posteruption drying coincide well with climatologically wet regions, while dry regions get wetter on average, but there changes are spatially heterogeneous. This pattern is of opposite sign to, but physically consistent with, projections under global warming. A significant reduction in global mean and wet tropical land regions precipitation is also found in response to twentieth century eruptions in both the observations and model masked to replicate observational coverage, although this is not significant for the observed wet regions response in boreal summer. In boreal winter, the magnitude of this global response is significantly underestimated by the model; the discrepancy originating from the wet tropical regions although removing the influence of ENSO improves agreement. The modeled precipitation response is detectable in the observations in boreal winter but marginal in summer. © 2013. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. American Geophysical Union. 资助项目: NE/GO19819/1
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/63372
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候减缓与适应
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作者单位: School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, United Kingdom; Climate Research Division, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Iles C.E.,Hegerl G.C.,Schurer A.P.,et al. The effect of volcanic eruptions on global precipitation[J]. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres,2013-01-01,118(16)