Abstract: Annual variation of midlatitude precipitation and its maintenance through divergent water vapor flux were explored by the use of hydrological variables from three reanalyses [(NCEP?NCAR, ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA), and Goddard ...

Abstract: The occurrence frequency of the east Asian cold surge exhibits an interannual variation in concert with the El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. That is, the cold surge occurs more (less) frequently during warm (cold) ...

Abstract: ajor rainfall (≥60%) in the northern part of the South China Sea (between North Vietnam and Taiwan) during May?June (the mei-yu season?the first phase of the Southeast?East Asian monsoon) is produced by rainstorms originating ...

Abstract: Since a cold surge is a hazardous weather phenomenon in east Asia, the rapid population increase and economic growth over the past two decades require improvement in forecasting cold surges and their related weather events ...

Abstract: Rainfall variation of the East Asian summer monsoon has long been believed to be caused by the transition of weather regimes in company with the evolution of monsoon circulation. However, this claim was neither comprehensively ...