HR: 14:00h
AN: A43E-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Relative roles of land/vegetation, oceans, mountains and biomass burning in determining climate variabilities of the South American monsoon onset
AU: * Fu, R
EM: fu@eas.gatech.edu
AF: Georgia Instiute of Technology, 311 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, GA 30332, United States
AB: Research in recent decades has greatly improved our understanding of the roles of land surface and vegetation, sea surface temperature in the adjacent oceans, mountains and biomass burning as individual factors that shape climate variabilities of the South American monsoon system. This improvement has set a stage for examining the relative roles of these factors in determining the climate variabilities of this monsoon system from seasonal to decadal scales, and response of the monsoon system to increasing anthropogenic forcing. In this presentation, the author will present an attempt to address the relative roles of the aforementioned processes with focus on climate variabilities of the monsoon onset. The presentation can serve as a straw man to stimulate discussions and further studies on this subject.
DE: 0429 Climate dynamics (1620)
DE: 0495 Water/energy interactions (1878)
DE: 3311 Clouds and aerosols
DE: 3322 Land/atmosphere interactions (1218, 1631, 1843)
DE: 3339 Ocean/atmosphere interactions (0312, 4504)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly