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SUBMITTER: He C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4660429 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
He Chao C Zhou Tianjun T Lin Ailan A Wu Bo B Gu Dejun D Li Chunhui C Zheng Bin B
Scientific reports 20151126
The Western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH) regulates East Asian climate in summer. Anomalous WNPSH causes floods, droughts and heat waves in China, Japan and Korea. The potential change of the WNPSH under global warming is concerned by Asian people, but whether the WNPSH would be enhanced or weakened remains inconclusive. Based on the multi-model climate change projection from the 5th phase of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5), we show evidences that the WNPSH tends to weaken ...[more]