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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres Année : 2022

What Controls the Skill of General Circulation Models to Simulate the Seasonal Cycle in Water Isotopic Composition in the Tibetan Plateau Region?

Xiaoyi Shi
Laurent Li
Xuejie Wang
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Tao Pu
Guotao Zhang
Yuan Zhang
Zhiyuan Wang
Yanlong Kong

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This study evaluates the simulation of the seasonal cycle of water isotopic composition over Tibetan Plateau regions (TP) from six isotope-enabled general circulation models (GCMs) participating in the second Phase of Stable Water Isotope Intercomparison Group. For both meteorological factors (precipitation rate and wind field) and isotopic composition, GCMs generally agree with reanalysis data and in-situ observations, but there is a significant spread across models and the isotopic seasonality is systematically underestimated. In the southern TP, the precipitation isotopic composition is more depleted in summer than in winter, and the amplitude of the simulated isotopic seasonal variations is primarily driven by the amplitude of the simulated upstream precipitation. In contrast, in the northern TP, the precipitation isotopic composition is more depleted in winter than in summer, and the amplitude of the simulated seasonal variability of isotopes is mainly driven by the simulated strength of the zonal wind. We conclude that the skill of a GCM to simulate the seasonal cycle in the isotopic composition depends mainly on the skill of the GCM to simulate the Indian summer monsoon precipitation and the westerlies. The same causes contributing to the underestimated seasonality at present-day may also contribute to the underestimated δ 18 O change at the mid-Holocene.
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hal-03893447 , version 1 (11-12-2022)

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Xiaoyi Shi, Camille Risi, Laurent Li, Xuejie Wang, Tao Pu, et al.. What Controls the Skill of General Circulation Models to Simulate the Seasonal Cycle in Water Isotopic Composition in the Tibetan Plateau Region?. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 2022, 127 (22), pp.106551. ⟨10.1029/2022jd037048⟩. ⟨hal-03893447⟩
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