The Monsoon Rainband over China and Relationships with the Eurasian Circulation
The Monsoon Rainband over China and Relationships with the Eurasian Circulation
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DOI:
10.1175/1520-0442-12.1.115
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
A. N. Samel;Wei‐Chyung Wang;Xin‐Zhong Liang
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作者:
A. N. Samel;Wei‐Chyung Wang;Xin‐Zhong Liang
Abstract Yearly variations in the observed initial and final dates of heavy, persistent monsoon rainband precipitation across China are quantified. The development of a semiobjective analysis that identifies these values also makes it possible to calculate annual rainband duration and total rainfall. Relationships between total rainband precipitation and the Eurasian circulation are then determined. This research is designed such that observed rainband characteristics can be used in future investigations to evaluate GCM simulations. Normalized daily precipitation time series are analyzed between 1951 and 1990 for 85 observation stations to develop criteria that describe general rainband characteristics throughout China. Rainfall is defined to be “heavy” if the daily value at a given location is greater than 1.5% of the annual mean total. Heavy precipitation is then shown to be “persistent” and is thus identified with the rainband when the 1.5% threshold is exceeded at least 6 times in a 25-day period. Fin...