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In his comments, Wang cites a number of works to dispute the conclusion in our previous work, which attributes the observed decreases/increases in light/heavy precipitation in eastern China primarily to global warming rather than the regional aerosol effect. However, most of the cited works (admittedly, including our previous work), employ correlation analysis, which has little bearing on the cause–effect relationship. Theoretical analyses and/or modeling studies are needed to ascertain the cause–effect relationship. We argue that theoretical analyses and modeling results show that global warming is the primary cause of the widely observed phenomena of suppression of light precipitation and enhancement of heavy precipitation across the globe, including in eastern China.
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Liu, R., Liu, S.C., Cicerone, R.J. et al. Response to comments by Yuan Wang on “Trends of extreme precipitation in Eastern China and their possible causes”. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 32, 1447–1448 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-015-5121-8
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