supportedby a grant from the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(973Program)(No2011CB403500);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(NoU0733002);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province,China(No8351030101000002)
Tropical cyclone (TC) Nargis (2008) made landfall in Myanmar on 02 May 2008, bringing a storm surge, major flooding, and resulting in a significant death toll. TC Nargis (2008) displayed abnormal features, inclu...
sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (also called 973 Program, Grant Nos 2011CB403504 and 2010CB950400);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos U0833602, U0733002 and 40906010);Hong Kong Croucher Foundation (Grant No 9220055);City University of Hong Kong (Strategic Research Grant No 7002717);Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Environmental Dynamics (LED), Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No LED0804)
Tropical cyclone (TC) genesis over the South China Sea (SCS) during 1965–2004 was analyzed. The locations of TC genesis display evident seasonal changes, with the mean position of formation situated north of 15 ...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China 973 Projects(Grants Nos. 2012CB955604 and 2010CB950403);the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA05090402);the National Special Scientific Research Project for Public Interest under Grant 20106021;the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40890155,U0733002,40730952,and 40810059005)
In this study, the teleconnection between Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) and the frequency of high temperature extremes (HTEs) across the southern Yangtze River valley (YRV) was investiga...
sponsored by the Joint Funds of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U0733002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40906010);Government of Hong Kong Environment and Conservation Fund(Grant No. 9211008);City University of Hong Kong(Strategic Research Grant No. 7002505)
The aim of this study was to investigate changes in the relationship between mei-yu rainfall over East China and La Nifia events in the late 1970s, a period concurrent with the Pacific climate shift, using meiyu rainf...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U0733002,40810059005,40890155,40906014 and 40976015);the Youth Marine Science Foundation of State Oceanic Administration (2010218)
Instead of using complicated general circulation models (GCMs), a simple semi-analytical model based on ray theory has been used to study energy evolution and ray path of Rossby waves in slowly varying mean flows. Our...
supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program 2008BAK50B02;CAS Innovation Key Program (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-BR-14);National Basic Research Program of China(2011CB309704);Special Scientific Research Project for Public Interest (Grant No. GYHY201006021);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.40890155, 40775051, U0733002)
The tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) is warmer than normal during the summer when or after the El Nio decays. The present study investigates the impact of TIO SST on the South Asian High (SAH) in summer. When the TIO i...
supported by the CAS Innovation Key Program (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-BR-14);National Basic Research Program of China (2011CB309704);Special Scientific Research Project for Public Interest (GrantNo. GYHY201006021);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40890155, 40775051,U0733002)
Using the latest daily observational rainfall datasets for the period 1961–2008, the present study investigates the interannual variability of June–September (JJAS) mean rainfall in northern China. The regional ch...