Use of satellite-derived water vapor data to investigate northwestward expansion of north Pacific subtropical high during 1995 summer

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1059-1075

  Sohn, Byung Ju ^a   Chung, Hyo Sang ^b   Kim, Do Hyung ^a   Perkey, Donald ^c   Robertson, Franklin R ^c   Smith, Eric A ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Meteorological Research Institute   (South Korea)

^c Global Hydrology and Climate Center   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044529275     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.79.1059     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Barnes, S., 1964: A technique for maximizing details in numerical map analysis. J. Appl. Meteor., 3, 396-409.
2. Bates, J.J., X. Wu and D.L. Jackson, 1996: Interannual variability of upper-tropospheric water vapor band brightness temperature. J. Climate, 9, 427-438.
3. Chen, T.-C., M.-C. Yen and S.-P. Weng, 2000: Interaction between the summer monsoons in East Asia and the South China Sea: Intraseasonal monsoon modes. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 1373-1392.
4. _ and J.M. Chen, 1993: The intraseasonal oscillation of the lower-tropospheric circulation over the Western Pacific during the 1979 northern summer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 71, 205-220.
5. Chen, L.-X., M. Dong and Y.-N. Shao, 1992: The characteristics of interannual variations on the East Asian monsoon. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 70, 397-420.
6. Fu, C. and J.O. Fletcher, 1985: The relationship between Tibet-tropical ocean thermal contrast and interannual variability of Indian monsoon rainfall. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 24, 841-847.
7. Fukutomi, Y. and T. Yasunari, 1999: 10-25 day intraseasonal variations of convection and circulation over East Asia and Western North Pacific during early summer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 753-769.
8. Jedlovec, G.J., J.A. Lerner and R.J. Atkinson, 2000: A satellite-derived upper-tropospheric water vapor transport index for climate studies. J. Appl. Meteor., 39, 15-41.
9. Kalnay, E. and Coauthors, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-471.
10. Kawamura, R., T. Murakami and B. Wang, 1996: Tropical and mid-latitude 45-day perturbations over the western Pacific during the northern summer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 74, 867-890.
11. Kidwell, K.B., 1991: NOAA Polar Orbiter Data User's Guide. NOAA/National Enviorenmental Satellite Data and Information Service, Washington, D.C., 312pp.
12. Lau, K.-M., 1992: East Asian summer monsoon rainfall variability and climate teleconnection. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 70, 211-240.
13. _, H.-T. Wu and S. Yang, 1998: Hydrologic processes associated with the first transition of the Asian summer monsoon: A pilot satellite study. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 79, 1871-1882.
14. _ and S. Yang, 1996: Seasonal variation, abrupt transition, and intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian summer monsoon in the GLA GCM. J. Climate, 9, 965-985.
15. _, G.J. Yang and S.H. Shen, 1988: Seasonal and intraseasonal climatology of summer monsoon rainfall over East Asia. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 18-37.
16. _ and P.-H. Chan, 1986: Aspects of the 40-50 day oscillation during the northern summer as inferred from outgoing longwave radiation. Mon. Wea. Rev., 114, 1354-1367.
17. Liu, W.T., 1986: Statistical relation between monthly precipitable water and surface-level humidity over global oceans. Mon. Wea. Rev., 114, 1591-1602.
18. Madden, R.A. and P.R. Julian, 1971: Detection of a 40-50 day oscillation in the zonal wind in the tropical Pacific. J. Atmos. Sci., 28, 702-708.
19. _ and P.R. Julian, 1972: Description of global scale circulation cells in the tropics with a 40-50 day period. J. Atmos. Sci., 29, 1109-1123.
20. Matsumoto, J., 1992: The seasonal changes in Asian and Australian monsoon regions. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 70, 257-273.
21. McMillin, L.M. and C. Dean, 1982: Evaluation of a new operational technique for producing clear radiance. J. Appl. Meteor., 21, 1005-1014.
22. Murakami, M., 1979: Large-scale aspects of deep convective activity over the GATE area. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 994-1013.
23. Murakami, T., 1980: Empirical orthogonal function analysis of satellite-observed outgoing longwave radiation during summer. Mon. Wea. Rev., 108, 205-222.
24. _, T. Nakazawa and J. He, 1984: On the 40-50 day oscillation during the 1979 Northern Hemisphere summer, Part I: Phase propagation. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 62, 440-468.
25. Nitta, T., 1986: Long term variations of cloud amount in the western Pacific region. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 64, 373-390
26. _, 1987: Convective activities in the tropical western Pacific and their impact on the Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 65, 373-390.
27. Park, C.-K. and S.D. Schubert, 1997: On the nature of the 1994 East Asian summer drought. J. Climate, 10, 1056-1070.
28. Park, S.-U., H.-J. Ahn and Y.S. Chun, 1988: Evolutionary features of the large-scale circulation over East Asia during the Changma period of 1985. J. Korean Meteor. Soc., 24, 22-43.
29. Peixoto, J.P. and A.H. Oort, 1992: Physics of Climate. American Institute of Physics, New York, 520 pp.
30. Randel, D.L., T.H. Vonder Haar, M.A. Ringerud, G.L. Stephens, T.J. Greenwald and C.L. Combs, 1996: A new global water vapor dataset. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 1233-1246.
31. Smith, W.L., H.M. Woolf, C.M. Hayden, D.Q. Wark and L.M. McMillin, 1979: The TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 60, 1177-1187.
32. Soden, B.J. and F.P. Bretherton, 1993: Upper tropospheric relative humidity from the GOES 6.7 μm channel: Method and climatology for July 1987. J. Geophys. Res., 98, 16669-16688.
33. _ and R. Fu, 1995: A satellite analysis of deep convection, upper tropospheric humidity and the greenhouse effect. J. Climate, 8, 2333-2351.
34. Sohn, B.J. and E.A. Smith, 2001: Explaining sources of discrepancy in SSM/I water vapor algorithms. J. Climate (Revised).
35. _, D.H. Kim and H.S. Chung, 1998: Examining total precipitable water from SSM/I and TOVS over the East Asian summer monsoon region, Korean J. Atmos. Sci., 1, 79-93.
36. Stephens, G.L., D.L. Jackson, and J.J. Bates, 1994: A comparison of SSM/I and TOVS column water vapor data over the global oceans. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 54, 183-201.
37. Swaroop, A.A., J. Nappi, H.J. Bloom and L.M. McMillin, 1988: A method of noise reduction for the improvement of clear column radiance estimation in partly cloud areas. Proc. Third Conf. Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Anaheim, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 13-15.
38. Tanaka, M., 1992: Intraseasonal oscillation and the onset and retreat dates of the summer monsoon over east, southeast Asia and the western Pacific region using GMS high cloud amount. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 70, 613-629.
39. Tao, S. and L.-X. Chen, 1987: A review of recent research on the East Asian summer monsoon in China. Monsoon Meteorology. C.-P. Chang and T.N. Krishnamurti, Eds., Oxford University Press, 60-92.
40. Ueda, H., T. Yasunari and R. Kawamura, 1995: Abrupt seasonal change of large-scale convective activity over the western Pacific in the northern summer. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 73, 795-809.
41. Wang, B. and X. Xu, 1997: Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon singularities and climatological intraseasonal oscillation. J. Climate, 10, 1071-1085.
42. Wentz, F.J., 1997: A well-calibrated ocean algorithm for Special Sensor Microwave/Imager. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 8703-8718.
43. Wu, X., J.J. Bates and S.J.S. Khalsa, 1993: A Climatology of the water vapor band brightness temperatures from NOAA operational satellites. J. Climate, 6, 1282-1300.
44. Yasunari, T., 1981: Structure of an Indian summer monsoon system with around 40-day period. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 59, 336-354.