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Intensified Springtime Deep Convection over the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea Dries Southern China.

ABSTRACT: Springtime rainfall, accounting for 25-40% of the annual rainfall in southern China, exerts great agricultural and socioeconomic impacts on the region. In the recent decades, southern China has experienced a significant declining trend of precipitation in boreal spring. Meanwhile, precipitation has increased over the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea (SCS-PhS). This paper presents observational and modeling evidences suggesting that the intensified latent heating released by the convection over SCS-PhS leads to suppressed springtime rainfall over southern China. Moisture budget analysis indicates that the drying trend over southern China is due mainly to weakened convergence of moisture flux, which is controlled by a heat-induced anomalous overturning circulation reinforced by the convection over SCS-PhS. Further idealized simulations support the feature that the heat-induced overturning circulation and its corresponding anomalous cyclone can be well established in several days under the spring mean flow condition. Thus, this rapid dynamic process is associated with both the intraseasonal-to-interannual variations and the long-term change of the springtime rainfall over southern China.

SUBMITTER: Li Z

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4962042 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intensified Springtime Deep Convection over the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea Dries Southern China.

Li Zhenning Z Yang Song S He Bian B Hu Chundi C

Scientific reports 20160727

Springtime rainfall, accounting for 25-40% of the annual rainfall in southern China, exerts great agricultural and socioeconomic impacts on the region. In the recent decades, southern China has experienced a significant declining trend of precipitation in boreal spring. Meanwhile, precipitation has increased over the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea (SCS-PhS). This paper presents observational and modeling evidences suggesting that the intensified latent heating released by the convection ...[more]

PMID: 27461985

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Intensified Springtime Deep Convection over the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea Dries Southern China.

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Intensified Springtime Deep Convection over the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea Dries Southern China.

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