INFLUENCES OF DIURNAL CHANGE OF SOLAR RADIATION ON SIMULATED PROPERTIES OF SUMMER MONSOON*

Comparative experiments with and without the diurnal change of solar radiation are made in this paper by use of an air-sea coupled 7-layer primitive equation modeling system in a zonal domain between 60°S and 60°N.The results show that the quasi-stationary patterns of the mean monsoon circulations are not evidently affected by the diurnal change of solar radiation.The main influences may come from the land-sea distribution and the orography.However,the inclusion of the diurnal change of solar radiation into the model system may improve the intensities of the simulated monsoon circulations both at the high and the low levels.It can influence the distributive pattern of precipitation to a larger extent.Without the diurnal change,precipitation in the interior of land would decrease and in the coastal regions it would increase.The changes of the soil temperature and the soil moisture are fairly correspondent to that of precipitation.The areas with increasing precipitation and the areas with decreasing precipitation are distributed in the wave form.As to the influences on the monsoon development,the results indicate that the diurnal change of solar radiation can speed up the development of the monsoon in the early stage.Therefore,the inclusion of the diurnal change of solar radiation can make the model equilibrium state to reach earlier.