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Consistent increase in East Asian Summer Monsoon rainfall and its variability under climate change over China in CMIP6
Anja Katzenberger
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
Anders Levermann
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Physics and Astronomy, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
LDEO, Columbia University, New York, NY 10964, USA
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A fifth of the world's population lives in eastern China, whose climate is dominated by the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM). Therefore, it is important to know how the EASM will change under global warming. Here, we use the data of 34 climate models of the latest generation to understand how the EASM will change throughout the 21st century. The models project that the EASM will intensify and that variability between years will increase associated with an increase in extremely wet seasons.
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