sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB955202);the China Scholarship Council under the Joint-PhD program for conducting research at CSIRO;supported by the Indian Ocean Climate Initiative
A timescale decomposed threshold regression (TSDTR) downscaling approach to forecasting South China early summer rainfall (SCESR) is described by using long-term observed station rainfall data and NOAA ERSST data....
sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2012CB955202);the National Public Benefit(Meteorology)Research Foundation of China(Grant No.GYHY201306018);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41176013 and41230420)
Model errors offset by constant and time-variant optimal forcing vector approaches (termed COF and OFV, respectively) are analyzed within the framework of E1 Nifio simulations. Applying the COF and OFV approaches to...
supported by the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals;the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB955202);the Chinese Academy Sciences’Project‘‘Western Pacific Ocean System:Structure,Dynamics and Consequences’’(XDA10010405);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41576019)
Since the late 1990s, a climate shift has occurred over the tropical Pacific that is characterized with a La Nifia-like mean state. Coincident with this climate shift, climate models' skills in predicting the El Nifi...
sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB955202)
Using observations and reanalysis data, this study investigates the interannual relationship between the winter Aleutian Low(AL) and the rainfall anomalies in the following summer in South China(SC). Results show that...
supported by the National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals;the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No.2012CB955202);the Chinese Academy Sciences’ Project "Western Pacific Ocean System: Structure, Dynamics and Consequences" (WPOS; Grant No.XDA10010405);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41176014)
Based on Global Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) and NCEP reanalysis data, atmospheric and oceanic pro- cesses possibly responsible for the onset of the 2011/12 La Nifia event, which followed the 2010/11 La Ni...
Funding was provided by grants from the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB955202);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41375111);the LASG Free Exploration Fund;the LASG State Key Laboratory Special Fund
In this study, the sensitivities of net primary production(NPP), soil carbon, and vegetation carbon to precipitation and temperature variability over China are discussed using the state-of-the-art Lund-Potsdam-Jena dy...
sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB955202);the National Public Benefit (Meteorology) Research Foundation of China (Grant No. GYHY201306018);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41176013 and 41230420)
Based on the Zebiak-Cane model, the timedependent nonlinear forcing singular vector (NFSV)-type tendency errors with components of 4 and 12 (denoted by NFSV-4 and NFSV-12) are calculated for predetermined El Nifio...
sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB955202);the National Public Benefit (Meteorology) Research Foundation of China (Grant No. GYHY201306018)
In this study, using the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model version 2pl (GFDL CM2pl) coupled model, the winter predictability barrier (WPB) is found to exist in the model not only in the growing p...
sponsored by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB955202);the National Public Benefit (Meteorology) Research Foundation of China (Grant No. GYHY201306018);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41176013 and 41230420)
Initial errors and model errors are the source of prediction errors. In this study, the authors compute the conditional nonlinear optimal perturbation (CNOP)-type initial errors and nonlinear forcing singular vector...