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- Title
Influences of North Pacific anomalies on Indian summer monsoon onset.
- Authors
Choudhury, Devanil; Tian, Yurun; Chen, Wen; Gao, Yongqi
- Abstract
This study finds a significantly decreasing (increasing) trend (1979–2018) of sea level pressure (SLP) over coastal East Asia (far North Pacific) during May and June, which resembles the negative (positive) Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) (North Pacific Oscillation, NPO)‐like pattern. Thus, we examine May composite differences between early and late Indian summer monsoon (ISM) onset years. Sea surface temperature (SST) differences show that early (late) ISM onset is accompanied by a negative (positive) PDO‐like state. Whereas, in SLP, an intense low pressure over northwestern India, the Arabian Sea to Southeast Asia (far North Pacific, East Asia) is associated with the early (late) onset. During the early onset, warm surface air temperature (SAT) anomalies over southeast Russia propagate towards Central Asia to the Middle East and the northwest Indian subcontinent, strengthening the land‐sea thermal contrast, which subsequently strengthens the monsoon low. We thus show how the positive NPO, negative PDO, and high spring Bering Sea ice link with the SAT anomalies. In the early onset, more wave packets generated in response to these North Pacific anomalies propagate towards the Atlantic and European region, reaching and converging over the northwest Indian subcontinent. The warm surface anomalies possibly draw eastward‐propagating waves towards northwest India, thus intensifying the monsoon low there. Meanwhile, in the CAM5 PDO simulation, we observe a similar pattern of atmospheric responses, where warm SAT anomalies associated with stationary Rossby wave trains propagate from the North Pacific towards the North Atlantic to Central Asia and the northwest Indian subcontinent, strengthening the monsoon low. Terefore, our study highlights the crucial role of the North Pacific anomalies in modulating the ISM onset processes via atmospheric pathways.
- Subjects
SOUTH Asia; CENTRAL Asia; EAST Asia; OCEAN temperature; WAVE packets; STANDING waves; SEA ice; ATMOSPHERIC temperature; MONSOONS
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2021, Vol 147, Issue 739, p3111
- ISSN
0035-9009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/qj.4119