新论文介绍:Is the Interannual Variability of the Summer Asian-Pacific Oscillation Predictable?

[发布日期: 2014-12-30 浏览量 1062]

  The summer (June-July-August) Asian-Pacific Oscillation (APO) measures the interannual variability of the large-scale atmospheric circulation over the Asian-North Pacific sector. In this study, we assess the predictability of the summer APO index interannual variability and the associated atmospheric circulation anomalies using the 1959-2001 hindcast data from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques (CNRM), and the Met Office (UKMO) general circulation models from the Development of a European Multi-model Ensemble System for Seasonal to Interannual Prediction project. The results show that these models predict well the summer APO index interannual variability and have higher skill for the North Pacific upper-tropospheric temperature than for the Asian upper-tropospheric temperature. Meanwhile, the observed APO-related atmospheric circulation anomalies in the South Asian high, the tropical easterly wind jet over the Asian monsoon region in the upper troposphere, the subtropical anticyclone over the North Pacific and the summer southwest monsoon over Asia in the lower troposphere are reasonably well predicted in their spatial patterns and intensities. Compared with the observations, however, these models display low skill in predicting the long-term varying trends of the upper-tropospheric temperature over the Asian-North Pacific sector or the APO index during 1959-2001.