《The Second Decadal Leading Mode of East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall》.pdf

ATM OSPHERICAND OCEANIC SCIENCE LETTERS，2014，VOL．7，No．5，417—421 TheSecondDecadalLeadingM odeofEastAsianSummerM onsoonRainfall BAOQingandYUPei12 TheStateKeyLaboratoryofNumericalModelingforAtmosphericSciencesandGeophysicalFluidDynamics(LASG)，Instituteof AtmosphericPhysics，ChineseAcademyofSciences，Beoing100029,China 。UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences，Bejiing10004~China Received 18March2014；revised9April2014；accepted 14April2014；published16September2014 Abstract Thefirstdecadal1eadingmodeofEastAsian commonclimaticphenomenonknownas s‘outhem China summerrainfall(EASR)ischaracterized by rainfal1 flood—northem Chinadrought’．Somestudieshavepointed anomaliesalongtheEastAsiansubtropica1rainbelt．This outthattheclimaticdroughttrendhasoccu~edinsome study focuses on the second decadal leading mode regions of the northwestem Pacific Ocean，and this (2DLM)．accountingfor17-3％ ofrainfalIdecada1vari— droughttrendalsobelongstothismajordecadalmodeof ance．asdistinctfrom theothertwoneighboringmodes0f EASR．Thus．therelevantspatia1pattern iscalled the EAMR．basedonthestate．of-the—artin．siturainfalldata． s‘andwichpa~ern’．Recentstudiesshow thatthismajor ThismodeischaracterizedbyaSouth．China．wet_Huaihe． 1eading modeofEASR hasintensifiedsincethe 1960s． River．dryPattem，andisdominatedbyaquasi．30．Vrpe— buttumedto betheoppositephase inthemostrecent riod．Furtheranalysisrevealsthe2DLM correspondstoan decade(Xineta1．．2006；SiandDing．20131．Somestud． enhancedlower—levelmonsoonjet，aneastwardextension ieshavebeenca~iedouttoinvestigatethepossiblerea ofthewestem North Pacific subtropicalhigh and a sonsandassociatedmechanisms，andtheyhavereported weakenedEastAsianupper-levelwesterlyjetflow．The thatthedecadalchangesofseasurfacetemperature(SST) TibetanP1ateausurfacetemperatureandPacificDecada1 ofthenorthwesternPacificOcean (Zhoueta1．，2009)， Oscillation(PD0、arecloselylinkedwiththe2DLM．The humaninducedaerosolsfMenoneta1．2002)．andthe regressedSST Pattem indicatesthePDO 1ikepattern of t