A NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT OF THE MONSOON CIRCULATION INFLUENCED BY THE ATMOSPHERIC HEAT SOURCE AND ITS MEDIUM-RANGE OSCILLATION

In this paper, a two-dimensional five-layer primitive equation (P. E.) model is used for numerical experiment with regard to the monsoon circulation influenced by the atmospheric heat sources and their medium-range oscillation. It is concluded that both the single heating source and the double heating centers can excite a monsoon circulation or a Walker circulation, that the change of vertical heating profile can influence the thickness of the monsoon cell, that the cooling sources over the Arabian Peninsula and the Mid-Pacific play an important role in forming a monsoon circulation, that the heating sources over the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea and its medium-range oscillation are the main mechanism forming the monsoon circulation, and that a strengthened source might intensify a monsoon circulation while reducing its extent, conversely, the results would be opposite, so the effects of the two heat centers interact with each other.     

大气热源及其中期振荡对季风环流影响的一个数值试验

关于东亚季风的形成机制,一般认为主要是海陆分布的热力差异造成的[1],而海陆热力差异要通过大气本身的热力差异来影响环流。因此,大气热源如何影响季风环流过程,季风环流又是如何响应大气热源振荡的,是季风研究中很重要的问题[2,3]。为了研究大气热源对季风环流的影响,我们设计了一个两维五层原始方程模式[4],用以试验在各种不同大气热源分布和作周期振荡时季风环流的响应。