Synoptic systems and weather
Synoptic systems and weather
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DOI:
10.1007/3-540-37722-0_4
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发表时间:
2006
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通讯作者:
Yihui Ding;D. Sikka
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作者:
Yihui Ding;D. Sikka
The annual cycle of the Asian monsoon system has been customarily divided into two distinct phases: thewet'anddry'phases (Webster et al., 1998). The wet phase refers to the rainy season during which warm, moist, and very disturbed wind blows inland from the warm tropical oceans (the Indian and Pacific Oceans). The dry phase refers to the other half of the year when winds bring cool and dry air from the winter Asian continents. The Asian monsoon region assumes the most distinct variation of the annual cycle and the alternation of dry and wet seasons which is in concert with the seasonal reversal of the monsoon circulation features (Qian, 2000). The wet season in general begins from May and ends in October, lasting for about six months, and the dry season spans from November to April of the next year. However, for different parts of the Asian monsoon region, the durations of dry and wet seasons may be different, depending on their climate regions and the degree of effect of the Asian monsoon. For example, in south Asia, the dry and wet seasons are very well-defined while in east Asia, four seasons can be evidently perceived, although the dry and wet seasons are main modes of the annual march of the precipitation in this region. In mid-latitude regions of east Asia, such as central China along the Yangtze and Huaihe River basins and Korean Peninsula, they are not generally included in the dry and wet alternative regions because the wet period for theses regions is shorter than one month (Bao, 1987). These short rainy periods mainly occur during prevalence of the summer monsoon in these regions. The total rainfall amount and rainfall intensity show a remarkable difference between dry and wet seasons, with a quite large annual range of precipitation that measures the amplitude of annual variation. The largest annual range exceeding