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›› 2005, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (3): 394-399.DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2005.3.020

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Precipitation, Cloud and Atmospheric CO2Interannual Variability

LI Yang-Chun1,2, YANG Xin1, WANG Ming-Xing1, XU Yong-Fu1   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;
    2. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2004-01-02 Revised:2004-03-15 Online:2005-05-15

Abstract:

Observation data show large interannual variability of atmospheric CO2.By analyzing yearly mean observation data of global precipitation and atmospheric CO2mixing ratio at Mauna Loa Observatory, we have found a significant positive correlation between the interannual variability of CO2growth rate and the year-to-year changes in global land precipitation.We suggest that this positive correlation results mainly from the influence of clouds in Monsoon areas on terrestrial net ecosystem production (NEP).Here a set of monthly mean data of temperature, precipitation and atmospheric CO2 is used to reanalyze their relationships.In addition, we use satellite-based monthly grid cloud data over the period of 1984~ 1993 to study its relationship with atmospheric CO2 and find that the interannual variability of atmospheric CO2matches cloud cover growth rate.

Key words: CO2, precipitation, cloud, growth rate

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