江淮梅雨期各类降水的变化分析

为了揭示江淮梅雨降水量的长期变化规律,利用1957~2008年中国740站逐日降水资料,使用线性倾向估计、小波分析等方法,在将日降水划分为小雨、中雨、大雨、暴雨和大暴雨5类降水的基础上,重点分析了江淮梅雨期间上述5类降水的趋势变化特征,结论如下:暴雨频率、暴雨强度是决定江淮梅雨降水多寡的主要内在因子;小雨、中雨的频率及其对梅雨量的贡献率的趋势变化在1970年代中期发生了显著的年代际变化,即由1970年代中期前的显著上升趋势改变为其后的显著下降趋势;大雨及其以上等级降水的频率、贡献率的趋势变化特征并不显著。     

夏季进入北极温带气旋的活动特征及其影响因素

进入北极地区的气旋在移动过程中往往伴有大风、强降水等特征,对北极气候变化有深刻的影响。基于NCEP2再分析资料,识别并跟踪了北半球夏季(6—8月)从中纬度进入北极的温带气旋,考察了其年际变化特征和影响因素。结果表明：1979—2019年夏季进入北极的温带气旋共867个,其中消失在北极边缘区域和中心区域的数量分别为688个和161个,且后者平均强度更大、平均持续时间更长。分区域研究发现,夏季从陆地进入极区的气旋个数较多,而从海洋进入极区的气旋强度更大,活动更为剧烈。对进入北极的气旋年际时间序列进行分析发现,夏季进入北极的气旋个数和强度均存在年际变率,其中气旋个数的年际变率尤为显著。气旋个数年际变率主要周期为5 a,强度的主要周期约为2.7 a。进一步分析发现,引导气流是影响气旋向北移动的重要因素。此外,夏季北大西洋气旋强度与同期北大西洋涛动(North Atlantic Oscillation, NAO)指数存在较好相关。研究还表明,进入极区气旋活动的年际变化受大气斜压不稳定性的影响,在北太平洋地区区域平均的Eady增长率与气旋个数和强度的相关性均最强,相关系数分别为0.4和0.5。     

典型拉尼娜事件与1988-1989年拉尼娜事件生命史演变差异性成因分析

利用海洋混合层海温热量收支诊断方法和两套海洋同化再分析资料,对比分析典型拉尼娜事件和1988-1989年特殊拉尼娜事件生命史演变成因.研究结果表明,典型拉尼娜事件在发展年冬季到达最强值后通常缓慢衰减,在次年秋季时再次增强形成第二次拉尼娜事件.而1988-1989年拉尼娜事件在发展年底时到达最强值后迅速衰减,并在次年秋季...     

ENSO amplitude change in observation and coupled models

Observations show that the tropical E1 Nifio-Southern Oscillation （ENSO） variability, after removing both the long term trend and decadal change of the background climate, has been enhanced by as much as 60% during the past 50 years. This shift in ENSO amplitude can be related to mean state changes in global climate. Past global warming has caused a weakening of the Walker circulation over the equatorial Indo-Pacific oceans, as well as a weakening of the trade winds and a reduction in the equatorial upwelling. These changes in tropical climatology play as stabilizing factors of the tropical coupling system. However, the shallower and strengthening thermocline in the equatorial Pacific increases the SST sensitivity to thermocline and wind stress variabilities and tend to destabilize the tropical coupling system. Observations suggest that the destabilizing factors, such as the strengthening thermocline, may have overwhelmed the stabilizing effects of the atmosphere, and played a deterministic role in the enhanced ENSO variability, at least during the past half century. This is different from the recent assessment of IPCC-AR4 coupled models.     

中亚和中国西北干旱气候变化特征及其对产业结构的影响

利用近百年年降水量资料，分析了亚洲大陆干旱、半干旱地带的主体部分，即中亚和中国西北地区的年降水量变化特征和产业结构。分析结果表明，中亚和中国西北地区年降水量在空间分布和时间演变上，既表现出某些相似性，又呈现出独特性。并且根据降水特征分析，提出了半干旱地区产业结构调整的成功事例。     

东北冷涡及其气候影响

基于自动识别、追踪方法得到的近50年东北冷涡数据集, 本文研究了东北冷涡的年际变率及演变趋势, 并分析了其持续性活动对我国气候的影响及相关联的大尺度环流异常特征。结果表明, 东北冷涡具有很明显的年际变率, 且存在2.5年左右的主振荡周期, 但没有显著的长期变化趋势。东北局地在持续性冷涡控制下, 四季气温均明显偏低, 并在春季和夏季能造成局部降水偏多。在东北冷涡活跃的夏季, 长江流域往往降水显著偏多; 而在冬季东北冷涡频繁活动时, 我国大部分地区往往低温少雨, 这与强盛的东亚冬季风密切相关。研究结果表明, 冬季东北冷涡活动和东亚冬季风强度之间的相关系数达到99%的信度水平。在东北冷涡活跃的夏季, 东亚地区对流层维持着深厚的偶极型位势高度异常, 高空急流向南偏移并略加强, 低层西北太平洋反气旋异常和中纬度地区的东风异常有助于局地的水汽通量的辐合, 进而有利于降水的偏多。     

“96.1”暴雪期中尺度切变线发生发展的动力诊断：Ⅰ：涡度和涡度变率 …

利用引入三相云显式降水方案后改进和发展的中尺度模式（ＭＭ４）模拟输出资料,对“９６．１”高原暴雪切变线发生、发展的结构进行了运动学和动力学诊断。涡度场演变指出,高原上局地涡度中心和涡度带的生成和发展不仅与暴雪切变线的形成和发展密切相关,而且有预测切变线生成的先兆意义;涡度场、散度场、垂直速度场当位温场的剖面结构诊断表明,运动场的热力场的相互配置与耦合关系极有得暴雪切变线及暴雪形成与维持;涡度变率诊     

华北汛期日降水特性的变化分析

基于中国740站逐日降水资料, 使用线性倾向估计、 Mann-Kendall突变检验等方法, 分析了华北汛期降水量、 5类汛期降水频率及其贡献率的趋势特征和年代际变化, 揭示出一些比较有意义的新事实, 结果如下: 华北汛期降水量、 5类降水频率及其贡献率都有一定的下降趋势, 华北汛期降水量下降趋势最明显。5类降水频率的下降趋势, 表现出明显的渐变特点, 其中, 小雨频率下降趋势最大, 暴雨频率和大暴雨频率的下降趋势并不显著。5类降水贡献率下降趋势中, 华北暴雨贡献率下降趋势最大。50年来, 华北汛期大雨贡献率最大, 接近于总降水的1/3。华北汛期降水量的多寡主要受其汛期大雨的频率和暴雨的贡献率影响。华北汛期降水量和暴雨贡献率都在1978年前后发生了年代际突变, 华北暴雨贡献率的年代际突变是造成华北汛期降水量发生年代际突变的内在因素。     

Modelling the Baltic Sea ocean climate on centennial time scale: temperature and sea ice

This study considers the possible use of different kinds of forcing datasets in Baltic Sea ocean climate modelling on centennial time scales, in particular for the past half millennium. We demonstrate that high-quality station data of the past century and gridded multi-proxy reconstructions for the past 500 years can be used with great success but with various levels of detail. We also demonstrate that output data from the state-of-the-art global climate model EcHo-G are not suitable for modelling the Baltic Sea ocean climate. Two climate properties were studied: the annual maximum ice extent (MIB) and the vertically and horizontally integrated annual water temperature. Centennial time scale results indicate that the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries were the coldest centuries, while the 1690s were the coldest decade and 1695 the coldest year in the last 500 years. The results also indicate that the twentieth century was the warmest century with the least MIB of the last 500 years. On a decadal time scale, the 1990s, 1930s and 1730s were the warmest decades and comparable in terms of both water temperature and MIB. The year 1989 had the minimum observed MIB of only 52,000 km², implying that the Baltic Sea has been partly ice covered in all winters of the past half millennium. Even though different climate forcing mechanisms may operate on the climate system today compared to over the last half millennium, this study cannot clearly state that the region is experiencing climate change outside the natural limits of the past 500 years.     

Seasonal to interannual climate predictability in mid and high northern latitudes in a global coupled model

The upper limit of climate predictability in mid and high northern latitudes on seasonal to interannual time scales is investigated by performing two perfect ensemble experiments with the global coupled atmosphere–ocean–sea ice model ECHAM5/MPI-OM. The ensembles consist of six members and are initialized in January and July from different years of the model’s 300-year control integration. The potential prognostic predictability is analyzed for a set of oceanic and atmospheric climate parameters. The predictability of the atmospheric circulation is small except for southeastern Europe, parts of North America and the North Pacific, where significant predictability occurs with a lead time of up to half a year. The predictability of 2 m air temperature shows a large land–sea contrast with highest predictabilities over the sub polar North Atlantic and North Pacific. A combination of relatively high persistence and advection of sea surface temperature anomalies into these areas leads to large predictability. Air temperature over Europe, parts of North America and Asia shows significant predictability of up to half a year in advance. Over the ice-covered Arctic, air temperature is not predictable at time scales exceeding 2 months. Sea ice thickness is highly predictable in the central Arctic mainly due to persistence and in the Labrador Sea due to dynamics. Surface salinity is highly predictable in the Arctic Ocean, northern North Atlantic and North Pacific for several years in advance. We compare the results to the predictability due to persistence and show the importance of dynamical processes for the predictability.