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RELATION BETWEEN SUMMER TYPHOON FREQUENCY ANOMALIES INWEST PACIFIC AND ENSO EVENTS AND THE ANOMALOUSATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS

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  • By using data of serially numbered typhoons in northwestern Pacific and NOAA OLR data and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data of wind field, based on the statistics and study of the relationship between the calendar years with more (or fewer) summer typhoons and ENSO events, we compared the composites of OLR eigenvectors and tropical summer wind fields during El Nino and La Nina events with more or fewer than normal summer typhoons, respectively. The results show that, in summer, without remarkable systematic anomalies of Mascarene High and Australia High in South Hemisphere, the anomaly of Walker circulation will dominate and follow the rule of ENSO impacts to atmospheric circulation and typhoon frequency. Otherwise, when systematic anomalies of Australia High appear during the El Nino events, circulation anomalies in the South Hemisphere will dominate, and many more typhoons will occur. In 1999, which is a special year of La Nina events, northward and eastward monsoon was induced by the stronger Mascarene High, and fewer typhoons arose. The typhoon source are regions where weak vertical wind shear, warm pool in western Pacific and the area with monsoon troughs are overlapping with each other. Finally, this paper analyzes and compares the source locations and ranges of more (fewer) typhoons in the events of El Nino and La Nina, respectively.
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ZHOU Xue-ming, WEI Ying-zhi, WU Chen-feng. RELATION BETWEEN SUMMER TYPHOON FREQUENCY ANOMALIES INWEST PACIFIC AND ENSO EVENTS AND THE ANOMALOUSATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS [J]. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2006, 12(1): 16-23.
ZHOU Xue-ming, WEI Ying-zhi, WU Chen-feng. RELATION BETWEEN SUMMER TYPHOON FREQUENCY ANOMALIES INWEST PACIFIC AND ENSO EVENTS AND THE ANOMALOUSATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS [J]. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2006, 12(1): 16-23.
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RELATION BETWEEN SUMMER TYPHOON FREQUENCY ANOMALIES INWEST PACIFIC AND ENSO EVENTS AND THE ANOMALOUSATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract: By using data of serially numbered typhoons in northwestern Pacific and NOAA OLR data and NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data of wind field, based on the statistics and study of the relationship between the calendar years with more (or fewer) summer typhoons and ENSO events, we compared the composites of OLR eigenvectors and tropical summer wind fields during El Nino and La Nina events with more or fewer than normal summer typhoons, respectively. The results show that, in summer, without remarkable systematic anomalies of Mascarene High and Australia High in South Hemisphere, the anomaly of Walker circulation will dominate and follow the rule of ENSO impacts to atmospheric circulation and typhoon frequency. Otherwise, when systematic anomalies of Australia High appear during the El Nino events, circulation anomalies in the South Hemisphere will dominate, and many more typhoons will occur. In 1999, which is a special year of La Nina events, northward and eastward monsoon was induced by the stronger Mascarene High, and fewer typhoons arose. The typhoon source are regions where weak vertical wind shear, warm pool in western Pacific and the area with monsoon troughs are overlapping with each other. Finally, this paper analyzes and compares the source locations and ranges of more (fewer) typhoons in the events of El Nino and La Nina, respectively.

ZHOU Xue-ming, WEI Ying-zhi, WU Chen-feng. RELATION BETWEEN SUMMER TYPHOON FREQUENCY ANOMALIES INWEST PACIFIC AND ENSO EVENTS AND THE ANOMALOUSATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS [J]. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2006, 12(1): 16-23.
Citation: ZHOU Xue-ming, WEI Ying-zhi, WU Chen-feng. RELATION BETWEEN SUMMER TYPHOON FREQUENCY ANOMALIES INWEST PACIFIC AND ENSO EVENTS AND THE ANOMALOUSATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION CHARACTERISTICS [J]. Journal of Tropical Meteorology, 2006, 12(1): 16-23.
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