Annex V: Monsoons

ANNALISA CHERCHI; ANDREW TURNER; LINCOLN M. ALVES; PAOLA A. ARIAS; MATHEW BARLOW; RUTH CEREZO-MOTA; AÏDA DIONGUE-NIANG; JOELLE GERGIS; SERGEY GULEV; DABANG JIANG; RICHARD G. JONES; WON-TAE KWON; JUNE-YI LEE; JIAN LI; LINDA O. MEARNS; WILFRIED POKAM MBA; SABIN THAZHE PURAYIL; KRISHNAN RAGHAVAN; JUAN ANTONIO RIVERA; JESSICA TIERNEY; TIANJUN ZHOU

Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Cambrigde University Press

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2021; p. 2193 - 2204

A monsoon refers to a seasonal transition of regimes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation in response to the annual cycle of solar insolation and the distribution of moist static energy (Wang and Ding, 2008; Wang et al., 2014; Biasutti et al., 2018). A global monsoon can be objectively identified based on precipitation contrasts in the solstice seasons to encompass all monsoon regions (Wang and Ding, 2008). In AR5, regional monsoon domains were identified starting from the definition of the global monsoon tailored over the continents and adjacent oceans, as in Kitoh et al. (2013). This Annex contains the definition of the global monsoon as used in AR6 (Section AV.2), it explains the rationale for the different definition of AR6 regional monsoons compared to AR5 (Section AV.3) and provides the definition and basic characteristics of each regional monsoon assessed (Section AV.4).