scholarly journals Impact of the thermal state of the tropical western Pacific on onset date and process of the South China Sea summer monsoon

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. E1-E1
Author(s):  
Ronghui Hung ◽  
Lei Gu ◽  
Liantong Zhou ◽  
Shangsen Wu
2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (9) ◽  
pp. 3207-3218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Kajikawa ◽  
Bin Wang

A significant advance in the onset dates of the South China Sea summer monsoon (SCSSM) is detected around 1993/94: the epochal mean onset date is 30 May for 1979–93 and 14 May for 1994–2008. The relatively late onset during the first epoch is primarily determined by the northward seasonal march of the intertropical convergence zone, whereas the advanced onset during the second epoch is affected by the enhanced activity of northwestward-moving tropical disturbances from the equatorial western Pacific. During 1994–2008, the intraseasonal variability (ISV) over the western Pacific was enhanced during the period from mid-April to mid-May; further, the number of tropical cyclones (TCs), which passed through the South China Sea (SCS) and Philippine Sea during the same period, is about doubled compared with those occurring during 1979–93. This enhanced ISV and TC activity over the SCS and Philippine Sea are attributed to a significant increase in SST over the equatorial western Pacific from the 1980s to 2000s. Therefore, the advanced SCSSM onset is rooted in the decadal change of the SST over the equatorial western Pacific.


2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (22) ◽  
pp. 9029-9035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanghua Chen

Abstract In a recent paper, Kajikawa and Wang detected the interdecadal shift of the South China Sea summer monsoon (SCSSM) onset with a late SCSSM onset in an earlier epoch (1979–93) and an early SCSSM onset in a later epoch (1994–2008) and attributed this change to enhanced tropical cyclone (TC) activity and intraseasonal variability (ISV) related to 30–80-day and 10–25-day anomalies in the second epoch. This comment assesses the individual impact of TCs and ISV on the interdecadal change of the SCSSM onset by means of the removal of anomalies associated with TCs and ISV. Results herein show that TCs have no significant impact on the SCSSM onset in all years, except 2006 in which a strong and long-lived TC occurred over the South China Sea. After removing the 30–80-day anomaly, the difference in the mean SCSSM onset date in the two epochs decreases to some extent, implying that the 30–80-day anomaly can, in part, play a role in the interdecadal shift of the SCSSM onset. In contrast, the 10–25-day anomaly has an insignificant contribution to the interdecadal shift of the SCSSM onset. The discrepancy of ISV contribution results from the SCSSM background state, the magnitude and spatiotemporal scale of ISV, and the phase relationship between ISV and SCSSM transition from easterly to westerly.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanzhen Chi ◽  
Zhaoyong Guan ◽  
Jinhai He ◽  
Li Qi ◽  
Xuefen Zhang

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. e858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingliang Huangfu ◽  
Wen Chen ◽  
Xu Wang ◽  
Ronghui Huang

2011 ◽  
Vol 89A ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosbintarti Kartika LESTARI ◽  
Masahiro WATANABE ◽  
Masahide KIMOTO

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