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A high-resolution (40km horizontal) global model is used to examine controls on the South Asian summer monsoon by orography and surface heat fluxes. In a series of integrations with altered topography and reduced surface heat fluxes, monsoon strength, as indicated by a vertical wind shear index, is highly correlated with the amplitude of the maximum boundary layer equivalent potential temperature (ueb) over South Asia. RemovaloftheTibetanPlateauwhilepreservingtheHimalayasandadjacentmountainrangeshaslittleeffect on monsoon strength, and monsoon strength decreases approximately linearly as the height of the Himalayas is reduced. In terms of surface heatflux changes, monsoon strength is most sensitiveto those in the location of the ueb maximum just south of the Himalayas. These results are consistent with the recent idea that topography creates a strong monsoon by insulating the thermal maximum from dry extratropical air. However, monsoon strength is found to be more sensitive to variations in the ueb maximum when topography is altered than when surface heat fluxes are reduced, and it is suggested that free-tropospheric humidity changes lead to deviations from strict convective quasi equilibrium and cause this difference. When topography is reduced, dry extratropical air intrudes into the troposphere over the ueb maximum and is entrained by local deep convection, requiring a higher ueb to achieve convective equilibrium with a given upper-tropospheric temperatureandassociatedbalancedmonsoonflow.Theseresultsillustratepotentialcomplexitiesthatneedtobe included in simple theories for monsoon strength built on strict convective quasi equilibrium.

Effects of Orography and Surface Heat Fluxes on the South Asian Summer Monsoon