Relative roles of aerosols, SST, and snow impurity on snowmelt over the Tibetan Plateau and its their impacts on South Asian summer monsoon

Si-Chee Tsay1, Kyu-Myong Kim1, William K-M Lau2, Dr. Teppei J Yasunari, PhD3, Sarith P P Mahanama1, Randal D Koster4 and Arlindo daSilva5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, (3)GESTAR/USRA--NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States