Delayed impacts of the El Niño episodes in the central Pacific on the summertime climate anomalies of eastern China in 2003 and 2007 |
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Authors: | Ming Bao Rongqing Han |
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Institution: | Center for Monsoon System Research, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100190;
School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093;National Climate Center, Beijing 100081 |
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Abstract: | In the summers of 2003 and 2007, eastern China suffered similar climate disasters with
severe flooding in the Huaihe River valley and heat waves in the southern Yangtze River delta and
South China. Using SST data and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data from NOAA along with
reanalysis data from NCEP/NCAR, the 2002/03 and 2006/07 El Nino episodes in the central Pacific
and their delayed impacts on the following early summertime climate anomalies of eastern China
were analyzed. The possible physical progresses behaved as follows: Both of the moderate El Nino
episodes matured in the central equatorial Pacific during the early winter. The zonal wind anomalies
near the sea surface of the west-central equatorial Pacific excited equatorial Kelvin waves
propagating eastward and affected the evolution of the El Ni\~no episodes. From spring to early
summer, the concurring anomalous easterly winds in the central equatorial Pacific and the end
of upwelling Kelvin waves propagating eastward in the western equatorial Pacific, favored the
equatorial warm water both of the SST and the subsurface temperature in the western Pacific.
These conditions favored the warm state of the western equatorial Pacific in the early summer
for both cases of 2003 and 2007. Due to the active convection in the western equatorial Pacific
in the early summer and the weak warm SST anomalies in the tropical western Pacific from spring
to early summer, the convective activities in the western Pacific warm pool showed the pattern
in which the anomalous strong convection only appeared over the southern regions of the tropical
western Pacific warm pool, which effects the meridional shift of the western Pacific subtropical
high in the summer. The physical progress of the delayed impacts of the El Ni\~no episodes in the
central equatorial Pacific and their decaying evolution on the climate anomalies in eastern China
were interpreted through the key role of special pattern for the heat convection in the tropical
western Pacific warm pool and the response of the western North Pacific anomalous anticyclone. |
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Keywords: | El Nino episodes climate impact eastern China |
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