Articles | Volume 15, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-8051-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-8051-2015
Research article
 | 
22 Jul 2015
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2015

Increasing Arabian dust activity and the Indian summer monsoon

F. Solmon, V. S. Nair, and M. Mallet

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
AR by fabien solmon on behalf of the Authors (15 Jun 2015)  Author's response
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (24 Jun 2015) by Yves Balkanski
Download
Short summary
Using observations and a regional climate model, we suggest that (i) dust radiative forcing over west Asia induces complex regional feedbacks on the Indian monsoon system, notably a possible enhancement of moisture convergence over southern India; and (ii) an observed AOD positive trend attributed to an increasing Arabian dust activity during 2000-2009 could be associated with, and contributing to, the observed enhancement of southern Indian summer precipitation during this decade.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint