Abstract: his study investigates the dynamical linkage between the meridional mass circulation and cold air outbreaks using the ERA-Interim data covering the period 1979?2011. It is found that the onset date of continental-scale ...

Abstract: ased on the NCEP?NCAR reanalysis dataset covering 1958?2012, this paper demonstrates a statistically significant relationship between the occurrence of major stratospheric sudden warming events (SSWs) in midwinter and the ...

Abstract: Monthly mean reanalysis data and numerical experiments based on a climate model are employed to investigate the relative impacts of different types of diabatic heating and their synthetic effects on the formation of the ...

Abstract: Cold surges occur frequently over the South China Sea (SCS) in winter, and most of them last only a few days. However, some cold surge events can persist longer, for instance, more than 5 days. This study focuses on these ...

Abstract: This paper presents a possible dynamical explanation for why the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern exhibits an eastward shift from the period 1958?77 (P1) to the period 1978?97 (P2) or 1998?2007 (P3). First, the ...

Abstract: AbstractUsing the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble (MME) historical experiments, the modulation of the stratospheric El Niño?Southern Oscillation (ENSO) teleconnection by the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO) is investigated in ...

Abstract: his study reports a mass budget analysis on the year-to-year variability of the winter [December?February (DJF)]-mean Arctic (60°?90°N) surface pressure (Ps) using the 33-yr daily Interim ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-Interim; ...

Abstract: In this part, the spatial evolution of an initial dipole anomaly in a prescribed jet is at first investigated by numerically solving linear and nonlinear models without forcing in order to examine how the spatial pattern ...