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SUBMITTER: Takata K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2701008 | biostudies-other | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Takata Kumiko K Saito Kazuyuki K Yasunari Tetsuzo T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20090601 24
Preindustrial changes in the Asian summer monsoon climate from the 1700s to the 1850s were estimated with an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) using historical global land cover/use change data reconstructed for the last 300 years. Extended cultivation resulted in a decrease in monsoon rainfall over the Indian subcontinent and southeastern China and an associated weakening of the Asian summer monsoon circulation. The precipitation decrease in India was marked and was consistent with t ...[more]