Abstract: To analyze the middle-to-lower-troposphere atmospheric thermal contrast between the middle latitude over the Asian continent and over its eastern adjacent ocean near Japan, an empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis ...

Abstract: Utilizing winter (November?March) accumulated snow depth data at 60 stations over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) for the period 1960?98, three typical patterns of the TP snow anomaly's spatial distribution were objectively ...

Abstract: This paper describes a dynamic framework for an atmospheric general circulation spectral model in which a reference stratified atmospheric temperature and a reference surface pressure are introduced into the governing ...

Abstract: AbstractPredictability of East Asian cold surges is studied using daily data from the hindcasts of 45-day integrations by the NCEP Climate Forecast System version 2 (CFSv2). Prediction skills of the CFSv2 in forecasting ...

Abstract: n this study, the authors apply an efficient sampling approach and conduct a large number of simulations to explore the sensitivity of the simulated Asian summer monsoon (ASM) precipitation, including the climatological ...

Abstract: odel intercomparisons and evaluations against observations are essential for better understanding of models? performance and for identifying the sources of uncertainty in their output. The terrestrial vegetation carbon ...