Abstract: A new East Asian winter monsoon index, which reflects the 300-hPa meridional wind shear associated with the jet stream, was defined to describe the variability of the winter monsoon in midlatitude East Asia. This index ...

Abstract: A new northeast Asian summer monsoon index is introduced to investigate the characteristics of the northeast Asian summer rainfall variation, including Korea, Japan, and northeast China, and its possible connection to the ...

Abstract: The influence of the Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) on the characteristic variability of boreal wintertime atmospheric circulation among El Niño events is investigated by carrying out singular value decomposition ...