Biweekly Sea Surface Temperature over the South China Sea and its association with the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon
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- 作者：B. H. Vaid
- 关键词：Biweekly Intraseasonal Oscillations ; Sea surface temperature ; Rain ; South China Sea ; Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon
- 刊名：Pure and Applied Geophysics
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：174
- 期：2
- 页码：463-475
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- 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
- 刊物主题：Geophysics/Geodesy;
- 出版者：Springer International Publishing
- ISSN：1420-9136
- 卷排序：174
文摘
The association of the biweekly intraseasonal (BWI) oscillation in the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the South China Sea (SCS) and the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon is authenticated using version 4 the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager data (SST and rain) and heat fluxes from Ocean Atmosphere Flux project data during 1998–2012. The results suggest that the SCS involves ocean–atmosphere coupling on biweekly timescales. The positive biweekly SST anomalies lead the rain anomalies over the SCS by 3 days, with a significant correlation coefficient (r = 0.6, at 99 % significance levels) between the SST-rain anomalies. It is evident from lead/lag correlation between biweekly SST and zonal wind shear that warm ocean surface induced by wind shear may contribute to a favorable condition of the convective activity over the SCS. The present study suggests that ocean–to-atmospheric processes induced by the BWI oscillation in the SCS SST results in enhanced sea level pressure and surface shortwave radiation flux during the summer monsoon. Besides, it is observed that the SCS BWI oscillation in the changes of SST causes a feedback in the atmosphere by modifying the atmospheric instability. This suggests that the active/break biweekly cycle of the SST over the SCS is related by sea level pressure, surface heat fluxes and atmospheric instability. The potential findings here indicate that the biweekly SST over the SCS play an important role in the eastward and the southward propagation of the biweekly anomalies in the Western North Pacific.