Showing papers in "Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters in 2018"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review recent advances in the development of coupled regional Earth System Models (RESMs), a field that is still in its early stages and to date, coupled regional atmosphere-ocean-sea ice models are the state-of-the-art.

TL;DR: A set of high resolution (25 km) 21st century climate change projections using the regional climate model RegCM4 driven by four global model simulations were conducted over East Asia under the mid-1990s.

TL;DR: Using a regional climate model (RCM) is generally regarded as a promising approach in researching the climate of the Tibetan Plateau, due to the advantages provided by the high resolutions of these models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reveal a significant relationship between a dipole mode, the second leading mode, of spring sea-ice anomalies in the Barents Sea and the following-summer sea ice anomalies.

TL;DR: In this paper, cloud vertical structures and precipitation over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) were analyzed and compared with its neighboring land and tropical oceans based on CloudSat/CALIPSO satellite measurements.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the recent progress and research on the variability of tropical cyclones at different time scales and specific focus was placed on how different types of external forcings or c...

TL;DR: This article showed that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can play an important role in modulating the variability of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) over a 50-60-yr timescales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Millennium Silk Road region is considered as a core region bridging the East and the West, and the potential changes in the Silk Road are analyzed and analyzed.

TL;DR: The Silk Road pattern (SRP) as mentioned in this paper is a teleconnection pattern along the Asian upper-tropospheric westerly jet in summer, exhibits both interannual and decadal variabilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the data quality from satellites varies with different satellite characteristics, and the authors used satellite remote sensing to obtain a variety of cloud properties, such as cloud properties from satellite data.

TL;DR: In this paper, the northern edge of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) was identified using the pentad total column water vapor obtained from ERA-Interim reanalysis data during 1979-2015.

TL;DR: Based on daily maximum temperature data from Chinese weather stations for the period 1960-2013, the characteristics of the interdecadal variability of large-scale extreme hot event (EHE) frequency were analyzed in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, simultaneous observations conducted in 2014 show that the annual mean concentration of air pollution in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration is high.

TL;DR: In this paper, the major features of extreme spring cold weather in North China during 1961-2014 and the evolving processes of ESCS were presented. But, the authors did not consider the evolving process of ESCs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative contributions of ICV and external forcing to extreme events such as drought and floods are investigated, and the relative contribution of internal climate variability (ICV) and external forces (EF) is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial and temporal characteristics of the simulated Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) in 109 historical (i.e., all forcings) simulations derived from 25 coupled models with...

TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between the East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO) has been investigated using the model outputs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adopt the quasi-decadal variability of the solar cycle (e.g., sunspot number (SSN) or solar radio flux at 10.7 cm (F10.7) to investigate the effect of solar activity.

TL;DR: In this article, the major patterns of large-scale tilted ridges over the Eurasian continent and their connections with largescale surface air temperature during boreal winter were investigated and compared.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the performances of two distinct initialization approaches (anomaly and full-fill initialization) for climate prediction using dynamical models, i.e., model initialization is a key process of climate predictions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) of rainfall anomalies in South China, the related circulation regimes, and discuss the possible causes of the large variability of the positi...

TL;DR: A project entitled "Development of a Global High-resolution Marine Dynamic Environmental Forecasting System" has been funded by "The Program on Marine Environmental Safety Guarantee" of The Nationa as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The interannual variability of the east asian upper-tropospheric westerly jet (EAJ) in summer is characterized by the meridional displacement of its axis, or a seesaw pattern of zonal wind anomalie as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that the recent interannual rain variability over West Africa is characterized by more positive anomalies in the last four decades than in the previous four decades.

TL;DR: In this paper, urban-related warming in two first-tier cities (Guangzhou and Shenzhen) in southern China with similar large-scale climatic backgrounds was compared using the nested weather research and forecastin...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors predict a few months in advance the Yellow River's dryness, which is important for drought mitigation and agricultural and water resources management, especially for a river basin like that of the Yellow river.

TL;DR: In this article, the distinct influences of eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) La Nina on rainfall anomalies over Southeast Asia and Australia in boreal autumn (September to November) were explored in thi...

TL;DR: In this article, a triple-moment scheme with a limited number of prognostic variables is proposed to simulate the evolution of cloud droplet spectra properly for the simulation of warm rain initiation and intensity.

TL;DR: In this article, an effective improvement on the empirical orthogonal function (EOF)-based bias correction method for seasonal forecasts is proposed by introducing a stepwise regression method into t...

TL;DR: In this article, a well-established and pre-calibrated crop model can normally represent the overall characteristics of crop growth and yield, however, it can hardly include all relevant factors that affect the yield.