Relationship between ENSO and Winter Rainfall over
Southeast China and Its Decadal Variability |
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Authors: | LI Chun and MA Hao |
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Institution: | Physical Oceanography Laboratory and Key Laboratory of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and
Climate in Universities of Shandong, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100;Zhejiang Province Climate Center, Hangzhou 310017 |
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Abstract: | In this study, the relationship between El Nino-Southern Oscillation
(ENSO) and winter rainfall over Southeast China (SC) is demonstrated based
on instrumental and reanalysis data. The results show that ENSO and SC
winter rainfall (ENSO-SC rainfall) are highly correlated and intimately
coupled through an anomalous high pressure over the northwestern Pacific. In
mature phase, El Nino (La Nina) events can cause more (less)
rainfall over SC in winter. Due to the persistence and spring barrier of
ENSO, SC winter rainfall has potential predictability of about half a year
ahead with ENSO as a predictor.
Besides, the ENSO-SC rainfall relationship exhibits decadal variability,
closer before the early 1970s (0.47) and after the early 1990s (0.76), but
weaker (0.12) between these times. In different periods, atmospheric
teleconnection patterns have large differences and the predictability of SC
winter rainfall also changes dramatically. For the most recent 20 years, the
ENSO-SC rainfall relationship is closest and the prediction of SC winter
rainfall anomalies based on ENSO is most creditable. In addition, the causes
and mechanisms of the decadal modulation of the relationship between ENSO
and SC winter rainfall need to be further studied. |
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Keywords: | ENSO winter rainfall decadal variability atmospheric teleconnection predictability |
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