Pan-Asian monsoon and its definition, principal modes of precipitation, and variability features

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 787-795

  Gao, Ya ^a,b,c   Wang, Hui Jun ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

ENSO; Pan Asian monsoon precipitation; teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ASIAN MONSOON; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; AUSTRALIA; BAY OF BENGAL; CROSS-EQUATORIAL FLOW; DIPOLE PATTERNS; EAST ASIAN MONSOON; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS; ENSO; INDIAN MONSOON; INDIAN OCEAN; MARITIME CONTINENT; MONSOON PRECIPITATION; PHILIPPINES; RAINFALL MODELS; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH CHINA; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SUMMER RAINFALL; TELECONNECTIONS; WATER VAPOR CHANNELS; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

RAIN;

ANTARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONSOON; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECONNECTION; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; WATER VAPOR;

CHINA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHILIPPINE SEA; PHILIPPINES; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84860684302     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4382-7     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Tao S Y, Chen L X. A review of recent research on the East Asian Summer Monsoon in China. In: Chang C P, Krishnamurti, eds. Monsoon Meteorology. Oxford University Press, 1987. 60-92.
2. Murakami T, Wang B, Lyons S. Contrasts between Summer Monsoons over the Bay of Bengal and the Eastern North Pacific. J Meteorol Soc Jpn, 1992, 70: 191-210.
3. Wang B. Rainy season of the Asian-Pacific summer monsoon. J Clim, 2002, 15: 386-398.
4. He J H. A review of Asian-Pacific monsoon. Atmos Oceanic Sci Lett, 2009, 2: 91-96.
5. Webster P J, Yang S. Monsoon and ENSO: Selectively interactive systems. Q J R Meteorol Soc, 1992, 118: 877-926.
6. Goswami B, Krishnamurthy V, Annmalai H. A broad scale circulation index for the interannual variability of the Indian Summer Monsoon. Q J R Meteorol Soc, 1999, 125: 611-633.
7. Wang B, Fan Z. Choice of South Asian summer monsoon indices. Bull Amer Meteorol Soc, 1999, 80: 629-638.
8. Wang H J. The interannual variability of East Asian Monsoon and its relationship with SST in a Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean-Land Climate Model. Adv Atmos Sci, 2000, 17: 31-47.
9. Huang R H, Sun F Y. Impacts of the thermal state and the convective activities in the tropical Western Warm Pool on the summer climate anomalies in East Asia. Sci Atmos Sin, 1994, 18: 141-151.
10. Sun J Q, Yuan W, Gao Y Z. Arabian Peninsula-North Pacific Oscillation and its association with the Asian summer monsoon. Sci China Ser D-Earth Sci, 2008, 51: 1001-1012.
11. Kalnay E, Kanamitsu M, Kistler R, et al. The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project. Bull Amer Meteorol Soc, 1996, 77: 437-371.
12. Huffman G J, Adler R F, Bolvin D T, et al. Improving the global precipitation record: GPCP Version 2. 1. Geophys Res Lett, 36: L17808.
13. Smith T M, Reynolds R W, Peterson T C, et al. Improvements to NOAA's historical merged land-ocean surface temperature analysis (1880-2006). J Clim, 2008, 21: 2283-2296.
14. Xue Y, Smith T M, Reynolds R W. Interdecadal changes of 30-yr SST normals during 1871-2000. J Clim, 2003, 16: 1601-1612.
15. Liebmann B. Description of a complete (interpolated) outgoing longwave radiation dataset. Bull Amer Meteorol Soc, 1996, 77: 1275-1277.
16. Zhou X X, Ding Y H, Wang P X. Moisture transport region and its relationship with summer precipitation in China. Acta Meteorol Sin, 2008, 66: 59-70.
17. Wang B, Wu R H, Lau K. Interannual variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon: Contrasts between the Indian and the Western North Pacific-East Asian Monsoons. J Clim, 2001, 14: 4073-4090.
18. Liu Y Y, Ding Y H. Influence of the Western North Pacific summer monsoon on summer rainfall over the Yangtze River basin. Chin J Atmos Sci, 2009, 33: 1225-1237.
19. Ding Y H, Liu Y Y. A study of the teleconnection in the Asian-Pacific monsoon region. Acta Meterorol Sin, 2008, 66: 670-682.
20. Fu C B, Teng X L. The relationship between summer climate anomaly in China and El Niño/ Southern Oscillation. Chin J Atmos Sci, 1988, 12: 133-141.
21. Huang R H, Wu Y F. The influence of ENSO on the summer climate change in China and its mechanism. Adv Atmos Sci, 1989, 6: 21-32.
22. Chen W. Impacts of El Niño and La Niña on the cycle of the East Asia winter and summer monsoon. Chin J Atmos Sci, 2002, 26: 595-610.
23. Fan K. Zonal asymmetry of the Antarctic Oscillation. Geophys Res Lett, 2007, 34: L02706.
24. Wang H J, Sun J Q, Su J Z. The northern annular mode: More zonal symmetric than the southern annular mode. Chin Sci Bull, 2008, 53: 1740-1744.
25. Xue F, Wang H J, He J H. Interannual variability of Mascarene high and Australian high and their influences on summer rainfall over East Asia. Chin Sci Bull, 2003, 48: 492-497.
26. Yang X Q, Huang S S. The influence of intensity changes of Mascarene high on the general circulation of atmosphere-A numerical experiment (in Chinese). Sci Meteorol Sin, 1989, 9: 125-138.
27. Fan K. Antarctic Oscillation and the dust weather frequency in North China. Geophys Res Lett, 2004, 31: L10201.
28. Fan K, Wang H J. Simulation of the AAO anomaly and its influence on the Northern Hemispheric circulation in boreal winter and spring. Chin J Geophys, 2007, 50: 397-403.
29. Fan K, Wang H J. Interannual variability of Antarctic Oscillation and its influence on East Asian climate during boreal winter and spring. Sci China Ser D-Earth Sci, 2006, 49: 554-560.
30. Wang H J, Fan K. Central-north China precipitation as reconstructed from the Qing dynasty: Signal of the Antarctic Atmospheric Oscillation. Geophys Res Lett, 2005, 32: L24705, doi: 10. 1029/2005GL024562.
31. Sun J Q, Wang H J, Yuan W. A possible mechanism for the co-variability of the boreal spring Antarctic Oscillation and the Yangtze River valley summer rainfall. Int J Climatol, 2009, 9: 1276-1284.
32. Sun J Q, Wang H J, Yuan W. Linkage of the boreal spring Antarctic Oscillation to the West African summer monsoon. J Meteorol Soc Jpn, 2010, 88: 15-28.
33. Sun J Q. Possible impact of the boreal spring Antarctic Oscillation on the North American summer monsoon. Atmos Oceanic Sci Lett, 2010, 3: 232-236.
34. Fan K. Linkage between the Atlantic tropical hurricane frequency and the Antarctic Oscillation in the Western Hemisphere. Atmos Oceanic Sci Lett, 2009, 2: 159-164.
35. Huang J B, Wang S W, Gong D Y, et al. Atmospheric oscillations over the last millennium. Chin Sci Bull, 2010, 55: 2469-2472.
36. Mo K C. Relationships between low-frequency variability in the Southern hemisphere and sea surface temperature Anomalies. J Clim, 2000, 13: 3599-3610.
37. Ghil M. Inraseasonal oscillation in the global atmosphere. Part II: Southern hemisphere. J Atmos Sci, 1991, 48: 780-790.
38. David J K. Southern Hemisphere Circulation features associated with El Niño-Southern Oscillation events. J Clim, 1989, 2: 1239-1252.
39. Saji N, Goswami B N, Vinayachandran P N, et al. A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean. Nature, 1999, 401: 360-363.
40. Webster P J, Moore A M, Loschnigg J P, et al. Coupled oceanatmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997-98. Nature, 1999, 401: 356-360.