A shorter duration of Indian summer monsoon in constrained projection

Cheng, Y., Wang, L., Chen, X., Zhou, T. and Turner, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0642-6876 (2025) A shorter duration of Indian summer monsoon in constrained projection. Geophysical Research Letters, 52 (1). e2024GL112848. ISSN 0094-8276 doi: 10.1029/2024GL112848

Abstract/Summary

A reliable projection of the future duration of the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) provides an important input for climate adaptation in the Indian subcontinent. Nevertheless, there is low confidence for projections of ISM duration, due to large inter-model uncertainty of onset and withdrawal changes. Here, we find that models with excessive sea surface temperature (SST) over the tropical western Pacific (WP) during spring and greater surface warming trends over the northern mid-high latitudes (NMHL) during autumn in the present day tend to overestimate future delays to ISM onset and withdrawal, respectively. This can be attributed to the influence of surface thermal conditions on upper-tropospheric warming patterns. Constrained by the observational WP SST and NMHL surface warming trends, projected ISM duration under a high-emission scenario is shortened by 6 days compared to the current climate, with a reduction of inter-model uncertainty by 46% relative to the unconstrained results.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/119988
Identification Number/DOI	10.1029/2024GL112848
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > NCAS Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	American Geophysical Union
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