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- Title
Boreal Summer Synoptic-Scale Waves over the Western North Pacific in Multimodel Simulations.
- Authors
Zhao, Haikun; Jiang, Xianan; Wu, Liguang
- Abstract
During boreal summer, vigorous synoptic-scale wave (SSW) activity, often evident as southeast-northwest-oriented wave trains, prevails over the western North Pacific (WNP). In spite of their active role for regional weather and climate, modeling studies on SSWs are rather limited. In this study, a comprehensive survey on climate model capability in representing the WNP SSWs is conducted by analyzing simulations from 27 recent general circulation models (GCMs). Results suggest that it is challenging for GCMs to realistically represent the observed SSWs. Only 2 models out of the 27 GCMs generally well simulate both the intensity and spatial pattern of the observed SSW mode. Plausible key processes for realistic simulations of SSW activity are further explored. It is illustrated that GCM skill in representing the spatial pattern of the SSW is highly correlated to its skill in simulating the summer mean patterns of the low-level convergence associated with the WNP monsoon trough and conversion from eddy available potential energy (EAPE) to eddy kinetic energy (EKE). Meanwhile, simulated SSW intensity is found to be significantly correlated to the amplitude of 850-hPa vorticity, divergence, and conversion from EAPE to EKE over the WNP. The observed modulations of SSW activity by the Madden-Julian oscillation are able to be captured in several model simulations.
- Subjects
POTENTIAL energy; MATHEMATICAL models; VORTEX motion; CLIMATOLOGY; WEATHER forecasting
- Publication
Journal of Climate, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 12, p4487
- ISSN
0894-8755
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0696.1