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http://dx.doi.org/10.5467/JKESS.2017.38.1.35

Interdecadal Change of Summer Rainfall in the Region of Korea and Northern China  

Choi, Jae-Won (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Cha, Yumi (National Institute of Meteorological Research)
Kim, Jeoung-Yun (National Institute of Meteorological Research)
Lu, Riyu (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.38, no.1, 2017 , pp. 35-48 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study analyzed the obvious increasing tendency of summer (June to August) rainfall in the region of Korea- and northern China ($35^{\circ}-40^{\circ}N$, $110^{\circ}-130^{\circ}E$) in the late 1990s. In order to investigate the causes of the increase in summer rainfall since 1998, we analyzed the difference of the rainfall average between 1998-2012 and 1981-1997. The analysis of the 850 hPa stream flows showed that the huge anomalous anticyclonic circulations were developed in North Pacific and eastern Australia. In both hemispheres, the anomalous easterlies (anomalous trade winds) were strengthened from the equatorial central Pacific to the tropical western Pacific by the anomalous circulations, which was an anomalous circulation pattern shown in La $Ni{\tilde{n}}a$ years. As for the 200 hPa stream flows, the huge anomalous cyclonic circulations were also developed in both South Pacific and North Pacific. These two anomalous circulations reinforced the anomalous westerlies in the equatorial central and western Pacific, leading to the increase in summer rainfall in the region of Korea- and northern China since the late 1990s in association with La $Ni{\tilde{n}}a$ pattern, which was resulted in strengthening the Walker circulation. Recently in East Asia, the local Hadley circulation has been strengthened in which upward flows in the equatorial western Pacific and mid-latitude region of East Asia have descended in the subtropical western Pacific.
Keywords
summer rainfall; Korea-north China region; La $Ni{\tilde{n}}a$; Walker circulation; local Hadley circulation;
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