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Liu Xiaoyun, Wang Jingsong, Yang Jinhu, et al. The relationship between the autumn drought in the eastern part of Northwest China and the summer Asian-Pacific oscillation. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2016, 27(4): 454-462. DOI:  10.11898/1001-7313.20160408.
Citation: Liu Xiaoyun, Wang Jingsong, Yang Jinhu, et al. The relationship between the autumn drought in the eastern part of Northwest China and the summer Asian-Pacific oscillation. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2016, 27(4): 454-462. DOI:  10.11898/1001-7313.20160408.
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The Relationship Between the Autumn Drought in the Eastern Part of Northwest China and the Summer Asian-Pacific Oscillation

DOI: 10.11898/1001-7313.20160408

  • Lanzhou Institute of Arid Meteorology of CMA, Key Open Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Disaster Reduction, Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Reducing Disaster of Gansu Province, Lanzhou 730020

  • Received Date: 2015-12-14
  • Rev Recd Date: 2016-03-04
  • Publish Date: 2016-07-31
    Abstract
  • The eastern of Northwest China is recognized universally as a sensitive area of climate change and ecologically fragile region. Being adjacent to the Tibetan Plateau, effects of the Plateau terrain on atmospheric heating leads to thermal difference between the atmosphere above the Tibet Plateau and this area. The Asian-Pacific oscillation (APO) is defined as a zonal seesaw of the tropospheric temperature in the mid latitudes of the Asian-Pacific region. When the troposphere is cooling in mid-latitudes of the Asian continent, it is warming in mid-latitudes of the central and eastern North Pacific, and vice versa. In essence, the Tibetan Plateau thermal effects arouse likeness APO large scale teleconnection pattern. Used as an index of the thermal contrast between Asia and the North Pacific, it provides a new way to explore the Asian atmospheric circulations and climate change.Based the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data, the monthly precipitation and temperature from 589 stations of China during 1961-2010, the relationship between the summer APO and the following autumn drought in China is examined statistically. Results show there are a significantly positive correlation between the APO index and the following autumn in the eastern part of Northwest China. A positive phase of summer APO, characterized by two high ridges strengthened located near the Ural Mountains and east of the Okhotsk Sea, respectively, and a trough deepened between the Balkhash and the Baykal. A positive phase of summer APO associated with east Asian subtropical westerly jet stream turns to be weakened and northward. These changes provide favoring conditions for enhanced wet in the eastern part of Northwest China. The situation is reversed in the negative phase of summer APO, leading to drought in this region. The east wind strengthening at the bottom of the northeastern Pacific anticyclone and the moisture transport that roots in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal strengthening has very important contribution to the variability of the atmospheric water vapor resource in the eastern part of Northwest China. Moreover, the positive phase of summer APO is followed by increased ascending vertical velocity in autumn especially during the 54th-56th pentad.Specifically, the anomalous signal of the summer APO can persist until the following autumn, accompanying with continuous high correlations between the summer APO index and that in the following autumn. Therefore, the summer APO variation provides a potential valuable signal for predicting the autumn wet/drought in the eastern part of Northwest China.
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  • Fig. 1  EOF1 mode of the normalized summer upper-tropospheric T′ over the Northern Hemisphere from 1961 to 2010

    (the solid box denotes the mid-latitude region of Asia, the dashed box denotes the north Pacific area)

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    Fig. 2  Spatial distribution of correlation coefficients between the summer APO index and the normalized autumn drought index in China

    (the shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 level)

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    Fig. 3  Time series of the summer APO index and autumn drought index in the eastern part of Northwest China

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    Fig. 4  The left heterogeneous correlation pattern of singular value decomposition (SVD) mode for the normalized summer upper-tropospheric T′ and normalized autumn drought index over China

    (the shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 level)

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    Fig. 5  The right heterogeneous correlation pattern of singular value decomposition (SVD) mode for the normalized summer upper-tropospheric T′ and autumn normalized drought index over China

    (the shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 level)

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    Fig. 6  Composite difference of 500 hPa autumn geopotential height between the positive summer APO index and the negative summer APO index years

    (unit:dagpm, the shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 level)

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    Fig. 7  The same as in Fig. 6, but for 200 hPa zonal wind

    (unit:m·s-1, the shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 level)

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    Fig. 8  The same as in Fig. 6, but for vertically integrated water vapor transport flux

    (unit:kg·m-1·s-1, the shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 level)

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    Fig. 9  Composite difference of the autumn mean vertical circulation and the pentad mean vertical velocity between the positive summer APO index and the negative summer APO index years

    (unit of meridional wind:m·s-1, unit of vertical velocity:10-2 Pa·s-1, the gray denotes passing the test of 0.05 level) (a) cross section of composite difference of the autumn mean vertical circulation along 105°E, (b) cross section of composite difference of the pentad regional mean vertical velocity over 35°-37.5°N, 102.5°-110°E

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    Fig. 10  Composite difference of autumn pseudo-equivalent potential temperature (θse) and pentad θse between the positive summer APO index and negative summer APO index years (unit:K)

    (the gray shaded denotes passing the test of 0.05 significant level) (a) cross section of composite difference of autumn θse along 105°E, (b) cross section of composite difference of pentad regional θse over 35°-37.5°N, 102.5°-110°E

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    Fig. 11  EOF1 mode of the normalized autumn upper-tropospheric T′ over the Northern Hemisphere from 1961 to 2010

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    Fig. 12  The summer APO index and the autumn APO index from 1961 to 2010

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