THE ATMOSPHERIC HEAT BUDGET IN SUMMER OVER ASIA MONSOON AREA

For better understanding the mechanism of monsoon formation and designing the numerical simulation of the general atmospheric circulation, a new approach of calculating atmospheric radiation is proposed to investigate the distribution of the atmospheric heat source, and the budget of heat component is recalculated. The results show that there is a tremendous atmospheric heat source region over central India, northeast of the Bay of Bengal, east of the South China Sea and about 10 °N at the west Pacific, among which the heating center with a maximum heating rate of 8 °C/day is located over the Bay of Bengal and the average rate in the Plateau is about 1 °C/day.