Spatio-temporal Variability Sea Level Pressure （SLP） the Mid-to-Low Reaches of Northern Hemipheric and Precipitation over of the Yangtze River.pdfVIP

ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES，VOL．25，NO． 3，2008，458—466 Spatio-temporal Variability of Northern Hemipheric Sea Level Pressure(SLP)and Precipitation over the M id··to··Low Reaches of the Yangtze River HAN Xue 。(韩雪)，WEI Fengying (魏凤英)，Yves M．TOURRE 一，and DONG Wenjie3(董文杰) Institute of Atmospheric Physics，Chinese Academy Sciences，Beijing 100029 State Key Laboratory Severe Weather，Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences，Be巧i哪 !00081 。State Key Laboratory for EaCh Surface Processes and Resource Ecology ， Beijing Normal Universit ，100875 MEDIAS-France，Toulouse，France LDEO Columbia University，New York，USA (Received 21 June 2007；revised 4 September 2007) ABSTRACT The spatio-temporal variability of Northern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure fSLP1 and precipitation over the mid—t~low reaches of the Yan gtze River(PMLfY)is analyzed jointly using the multi—taper／singular value decomposition method fMTM—SVD)．Statistically significant narrow frequency bands are obtained from the local fractional variance(LFV)spectrum．Significant interdecadal(i．e．，16一to-18一year periods1 and interannual(i．e．，3一to．6一year periods)signals are identified．Moreover，a significant quasi—biennial signal is identified but only for PMLY data．The spatial joint evolution of patterns obtained for peaks in the LFv spectrum sheds light on relationships between SLP and PMLY：the Arctic Oscillation fA01 modulates the variability of the PMLY while the interannual variability of PMLY is in phase with the Northern Atlantic Oscillation(NA0)and the Northern Pacific Oscillation fNP01． Key wo