利用CMIP5(Coupled Model Intercomparison Projectphase5)中的17个模式,基于历史试验、RCP4.5以及RCP8.5排放情景下的模拟结果,分析了东亚夏季降水及东亚高空急流的时空分布特征.分析结果发现:模式结果能较好模拟出东亚和西北太平洋地区降水和高空纬向风较强的年际变率,以及东亚雨带降水异常和东亚高空急流南北偏移之间的相关关系.此外,预估结果表明在RCP4.5和RCP8.5两种排放情景下,21世纪东亚雨带降水以及高空急流的年际变率增强,这与以往的研究结果吻合.同时也发现,虽然模式之间尚存在较明显的差异,但是总体来说,在全球变暖背景下,东亚夏季雨带降水异常和东亚高空急流南北偏移之间的关系将变得更加密切.
The authors analyzed the interannual variability in summer precipitation and the East Asian upper-tropospheric jet (EAJ) over East Asia under the Historical and Representative Concentration Pathways Scenarios (RCPs, including RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), using outputs of 17 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) coupled models. The analyzed results indicate that the models can reasonably reproduce relatively stronger interannual variability in both East Asian summer rainfall (EASR) and EAJ. These models can also capture the relationship between the rainfall anomaly along the East Asian rain belt and meridional displacement of the EAJ. Projected results suggest that the interannual variabilities in precipitation along the East Asian rain belt and in the EAJ are enhanced under the scenarios RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 in the 21st century, which is consistent with the previous studies. Furthermore, it is found that the relationship between the East Asian rainfall and the meridional displacement of the EAJ is projected to be stronger in the 21st century under the global warming scenarios, although there are appreciable discrepancies among the models.
Annual precipitation,evaporation,and calculated accumulation from reanalysis model outputs have been investigated for the Greenland Ice Sheet （GrIS）,based on the common period of 1989-2001.The ERA-40 and ERA-interim reanalysis data showed better agreement with observations than do NCEP-1 and NCEP-2 reanalyses.Further,ERA-interim showed the closest spatial distribution of accumulation to the observation.Concerning temporal variations,ERA-interim showed the best correlation with precipitation observations at five synoptic stations,and the best correlation with in situ measurements of accumulation at nine ice core sites.The mean annual precipitation averaged over the whole GrIS from ERA-interim （363 mm yr 1） and mean annual accumulation （319 mm yr 1） are very close to the observations.The validation of accumulation calculated from reanalysis data against ice-core measurements suggests that further improvements to reanalysis models are needed.
The dominant patterns of summer rainfall anomalies in East China were studied using Empirical Orthogonal Function （EOF） analysis. The results indicate that after the late 1970s, the first and second dominant patterns switched. During the period before the late 1970s, the spatial pattern of the first （second） dominant mode was the ＂Yangtze River pattern＂ （the ＂South China pattern＂）, but this changed to the ＂South China pattern＂ （the ＂Yangtze River pattern＂） after the late 1970s. This decadal change in the dominant patterns resulted from a significant decadal change in summer rainfall over South China after the late 1970s, i.e., a negative phase during 1978-1992 and a positive phase during 1993-2006. When the decadal variation of rainfall in East China is omitted from the analysis, the first and second dominant patterns represent the ＂Yangtze River pattern＂ and the ＂South China pattern＂, respectively. These results suggest that when decadal variation is included, the rainfall in China may be dominated by one mode during certain periods and by another in other periods. For the interannual variability when decadal variation is excluded, however, the first and second modes can be easily distinguished, and their order has been stable since at least 1951.
