%0 Journal Article
%4 sid.inpe.br/plutao/2018/06.18.15.57.38
%2 sid.inpe.br/plutao/2018/06.18.15.57.39
%@doi 10.4236/ajcc.2018.71008
%@issn 2167-9495
%@issn 2167-9509
%F lattes: 0873439630646612 5 RaoFraSanRamFer:2018:HoAcCo
%T How accurately contemporary models can predict monsoons?
%D 2018
%9 journal article
%A Rao, Vadlamudi Brahmananda,
%A Franchito, Sergio Henrique,
%A Espírito Santo, Clovis Monteiro do,
%A Ramakrishna, S. S. V. S.,
%A Reyes Fernandez, Julio Pablo,
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@affiliation Andhra University
%@affiliation Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
%@electronicmailaddress
%@electronicmailaddress
%@electronicmailaddress
%@electronicmailaddress
%@electronicmailaddress julio.fernandez@inpe.br
%B American Journal of Climate Change
%V 7
%N 1
%P 97-113
%K Climate Change, Monsoons, Seasonal Change, Tropical South America and India Rainfall, Coupled General Circulation Models, Projections of Future Climate, IPCC Models.
%X Seasonal changes exhibit climate changes, so models can predict future climate change accurately only if they can reproduce seasonal cycle accurately. Further, seasonal changes are much larger than the changes even in long period of centuries. Thus it is unwise to ignore large ones compared to small climate change. In this paper, we determine how accurately a suite of ten coupled general circulation models reproduce the observed seasonal cycle in rainfall of the tropics. The seasonal cycles in rainfall of global tropics are known as monsoons. We found that the models can reasonably reproduce the seasonal cycle in rainfall, thus are useful in climate prediction and simulation of global monsoons.
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%3 rao_how.pdf