Monsoons as eddy-mediated regime transitions of the tropical overturning circulation
Abstract
Monsoons are often viewed as planetary-scale sea-breeze circulations, caused by contrasts in the thermal properties between oceans and land surfaces. Numerical simulations suggest that instead feedbacks between large-scale extratropical eddies and the tropical atmospheric overturning circulation are essential for the development of monsoons.
- Publication:
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Nature Geoscience
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1038/ngeo248
- Bibcode:
- 2008NatGe...1..515B