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In this paper, features for the evolution of the East Asia/Pacific (EAP) events and their association with high-and mid-latitude Rossby waves during the Meiyu period are analyzed on the medium-range time scale. It is shown that life cycles of the positive and negative EAP events cannot be simply regarded as “mirror” each other. In the upper troposphere, downward propagations of Rossby wave packets both over high-and mid-latitude regions of Eurasian continent and over the Asian jet region are responsible for generating basic patterns of high-and mid-latitude anomaly centers of the events. In this layer, Rossby wave packets also propagate from the mid-latitude anomaly center to the high-latitude one. In the middle and lower troposphere, the formation of the subtropical anomaly center of the event is mainly attributed to the anomalous convective activity in the tropical Pacific warm pool. The northward Rossby wave energy dispersion from this center is favorable to the enhancement and maintenance of the mid-latitude anomaly center in the same layer. Finally, it might be hypothesized that typical features of the positive and negative EAP events in their mature phase result from the interaction between (or phase-locking of) respective anomalous circulations induced both by quasi-zonal Rossby wave packets embedded in upper troposphere westerly and by quasi-meridional Rossby wave packets in the background flow of the East Asian summer monsoon in the middle and lower troposphere.
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Supported jointly by the 973 Project (Grant No. 2006CB403601) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40523001 and 40575024)
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Bueh, C., Shi, N., Ji, L. et al. Features of the EAP events on the medium-range evolution process and the mid- and high-latitude Rossby wave activities during the Meiyu period. Chin. Sci. Bull. 53, 610–623 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-008-0005-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-008-0005-2