Monsoon Regimes in FGOALS

Abstract

Here, the performance of FGOALS-s2 and FGOALS-g2 in simulating the Asian monsoon, the western African monsoon and the global monsoon was evaluated. Generally speaking, both the models simulated the monsoon climatology reasonably well. The simulated major monsoon rainfall centers and corresponding atmospheric circulation are consistent with those in the observations. Both models reproduced meridional marches of the East Asian monsoon and the western African monsoon, distinctive features of the two monsoon systems from the Indian monsoon. Moreover, both models reproduced the major monsoon areas from the perspective of the global monsoon.