7. Session IV: Monsoon Dynamics
Monsoon Dynamics
Chair: A. Navarra, H.Nakamura
The Asian summer and winter monsoons act as a“giant seasonal pacemaker”of the natural environment over the huge area covering East, Southeast and South Asia, thus critically influencing the social activities of over two billion population within that region. It is therefore of scientific and social significance to investigate their observed variability and thereby understand the basic mechanisms behind it, which may provide us a fundamental knowledge for predicting their possible future changes associated with the global warming.
The purpose of this session is to present an integrated view of the latest progress in our understanding of the Asian monsoon system based on recent theoretical studies, numerical simulations and observational data analyses, focusing upon the following aspects:
1) intraseasonal, year-to-year and decadal variations in Asian summer and winter monsoons,
2) relationships between the monsoon variability and ENSO,
3) large-scale atmosphere-ocean-land interactions in the tropics and subtropics that could be involved in the monsoon variability, and
4) teleconnections of the monsoon variability into the extratropics.
