A DIAGNOSTIC RESEARCH OF THE SEASONAL NORTHWARD BEATING OF THE SUBTROPICAL HIGH

Diagnostic techniques of CEOF, power spectrum and bandpass filter wave are applied in this paper to analyze the seasonal northward beating of the northern subtropical high using day to day geopotential fields of 2.5 × 2.5 at 500 hPa May through July in 1988 and 1991. It is concluded that it is globally observed that the subtropical high has northward beats that propagate westward; the source of beating mainly lies in the region of Arabian Sea and central Pacific and the sink in eastern Pacific; the seasonal beating is dominated by effects of the disturbance field; low frequency oscillation plays a key role in the beating and the westward propagation so that the difference in the latter in individual years is caused by the varying source of disturbance and the low frequency waves it excites.     

北半球海-冰-气系统的10年振荡及其振源初探

采用最大熵谱方法分析了1953～1990年间冬季喀拉海、巴伦支海海冰面积指数、西伯利亚高压强度指数、东亚冬季风强度指数的变化周期,并把冬季喀拉海、巴伦支海海冰面积变化与春夏各季节副热带高压的特征量指数（包括面积指数、强度指数）变化进行了比较。研究发现在海冰-大气气候系统中,明显存在10年尺度周期性变化;冬季喀拉海、巴伦支海海冰面积变化与西伯利亚高压强度指数、东亚冬季风强度指数均呈现相反的变化趋势,海冰偏多（少）则西伯利亚高压偏弱（强）、东亚冬季风也偏弱（强）;冬季海冰面积变化与春夏各季节副热带高压的范围、强度均呈现相同的变化趋势,并且海冰变化要超前0～1年;复经验正交分析表明大气10年尺度周期性变化的振荡源分布均与某一海区（洋区）有关,大气10年尺度变化是对海洋（海冰）变化的响应。     

海表温度异常对Madden－Julian振荡的影响

在前文［１］的基础上，进一步研究当海表温度存在经圈方向不均匀分布或偏离气候状态（距平）时，改变水分收支平衡及边界层的湿度辐合这一物理过程对Ｍａｄｄｅｎ－Ｊｕｌｉａｎ振荡的可能影响。结果表明，它对修正的Ｋｅｌｖｉｎ波和Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ波的传播性质影响不大。但当海表温度为正距平时，修正后东传Ｋｅｌｖｉｎ波振幅不稳定增长到ｅ倍的时间约减小了１４．５％，其不稳定增长率随着热源特征宽度的增加而增加，当特征宽度为２倍Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ变形半径时，不稳定增长率达极大，但当特征宽度继续增大时，其不稳定增长率又将减小。当海表温度为负距平时，修正后东传Ｋｅｌｖｉｎ波振幅不稳定增长到ｅ倍的时间约增加２０％，其不稳定增长率随着冷源特征宽度的增加而减小，当特征宽度为２倍Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ变形半径时，其不稳定增长率达极小，此后；随着特征宽度的增加其不稳定增长率随之增加，但始终小于无海表温度异常的情形。经圈尺度较小的那支修正的Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ波除波长极长的波段外，波仍是阻尼的；而经圈尺度较大的那支修正的Ｒｏｓｓｂｙ波，在短的波段内仍是不稳定增长的。     

近10年我国降水的QBO分析

近10年来我国东部地区降水分布趋势的年际变化具有QBO特征，双年的降水为中部地区少南北多，单年的降水为中部多南北少，其中江淮流域的降水变化最明显。分析表明，降水QBO的特征与西太平洋副高和冷空气活动有关，一般双年副高偏北、亚洲纬向环流发展，雨带偏北；单年相反，副高偏南、亚洲经向环流发展，雨带偏南，江淮流域降水较多。     

STUDY ON THE AIR-SEA INTERACTION ON THE INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

In this paper we document the correlationship between sea surface temperature (SST) and lowlevel-winds such as sea level wind and 850 hPa wind in the South China Sea (SCS) based onCOADS (1958—1987) and ECMWF objective analysis data (1973—1986).Further statisticalanalyses tell us that there is a fixed SCS basin mode for variations both of SST and low-level windsin the region on the interannual time scale due to air-sea interactions.A simplified,coupled model that is designed following the McCreary and Anderson's (1985)model and includes the feedback between the upper ocean and the circulation of East Asianmonsoon demonstrates an interannual oscillation in the coupled air-sea system,which is similar tothe observations in the SCS.     

THE EFFECTS OF VERTICAL VARIATION OF BASIC FLOW AND HORIZONTAL GRADIENT OF TEMPERATURE ON LINEAR AND NONLINEAR GRAVITY WAVES

By using two-dimensional dynamical equations in x-z plane with Boussinesq approximation,the effects of the second-order vertical shear of the basic flow u_zz and the horizontal gradient of temperature (M) on the gravity wave and the isolated gravity wave are discussed.The magnitudes of u_zz and M corresponding to the linear and nonlinear stabilities of the gravity waves are worked out,respectively.The results show that amplitude and width of the isolate dgravity wave are closely related to u_zz and M.It is indicated that the isolated gravity wave with a width of about 10 km can be motivated by the disturbance of sub-synoptic scale in the certain ranges of flow field shear and temperature gradient,while the motivated waves may be associated with the cold surge ahead of a cold front and the other mesoscale synoptic systems.     

Influence of southern oscillation and SSTs over Nino-3.4 region on the winter monsoon rainfall over coastal Andhra Pradesh

An analysis of the mean monthly data of 124 years reveals that the relationship between the Southern Oscillation Index in September and the winter monsoon rainfall (WMR) over Coastal Andhra Pradesh (CAP) is variable and non-stationary. In the recent four decades, however, SOI (Sept) is negatively and significantly correlated with CAP WMR. A similar analysis is performed using 50 years of mean monthly SSTs over Nino-3.4 region in August and September and CAP WMR to detect a possible relationship and there is a striking positive relation between them. In both of the above cases, the September signal is more significant in the recent four decades than for the other months and seasons for probable prediction of CAP WMR. Finally, to examine the influence of SO on the winter monsoon rainfall, a non-parametric test “Mann-Whitney Rank Statistics” test has been applied to the rainfall associated with extreme positive and negative SOI events     

大气低频振荡研究回顾与概述

文章对大气低频振荡的研究状况进行了概述，回顾了热带和中高纬大气低频振荡研究的发展情况，低频振荡与季风的关系，并叙述了大气低频振荡的起源和维持机制研究概况。     

对流凝结加热的垂直分布与低纬大气的30～60天低频振荡

运用一个包含Wave-CISK机制的斜压半地转8层模式和本征函数展开方法，研究了三种不同的对流凝结加热廓线对低纬大气的30—60天低频振荡的影响。研究表明，不同的加热廓线分布时30～60天低频振荡具有不同的相速和周期，并且低频振荡特征相速的量级都是o(10m／s)，由Wave-CISK机制激发的低频CISK—Kelvin波和CISK—Rossby波都是稳定的。同时，还进一步揭示了不同加热廓线对低纬大气30～60天低频振荡垂直结构的影响。     

太平洋年代际振荡研究进展

近10年来，太平洋年代际振荡(PDo)因其对全球气候系统的深远影响而得到广泛的研究。PDo指的是在太平洋的气候变率中具有类似ENSo空间结构但周期为10-30年的一种振荡，当北太平洋中部海面温度异常增暖(冲却)时，热带太平洋中部和东部以及北美沿岸常同时伴随有同等幅度的异常冷却(增暖)。总体而言，有两类观点分别认为PDO起源于确定的海气耦合过程或起源于大气的随机强迫。确定性起源论强调，一个海气耦合系统内部的物理过程可以提供一个正反馈机制以增强一初始扰动，及一个负反馈机制以促使振荡位相发生逆转；海洋环流的动力演变过程决定了振荡的时间尺度。随机性起源论则强调，因为大气活动没有一个特定的时间尺度，其时间尺度谱实际上对应于白噪音谱，所以大气对海洋的强迫是随机的；而海洋常在低频谱段有最大的响应振幅，其对应的周期约为十几年或几十年。作试图系统性地理解PDO在观测、理论和数值方面的研究现状，从而为当前研究提供一个有用的背景性参考。