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Seasonal Prediction Skill and Biases in GloSea5 Relating to the East Asia Winter Monsoon

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The simulation and prediction of the climatology and interannual variability of the East Asia winter monsoon (EAWM), as well as the associated atmospheric circulation, was investigated using the hindcast data from Global Seasonal Forecast System version 5 (GloSea5), with a focus on the evolution of model bias among different forecast lead times. While GloSea5 reproduces the climatological means of large-scale circulation systems related to the EAWM well, systematic biases exist, including a cold bias for most of China’s mainland, especially for North and Northeast China. GloSea5 shows robust skill in predicting the EAWM intensity index two months ahead, which can be attributed to the performance in representing the leading modes of surface air temperature and associated background circulation. GloSea5 realistically reproduces the synergistic effect of El Niño—Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Arctic Oscillation (AO) on the EAWM, especially for the western North Pacific anticyclone (WNPAC). Compared with the North Pacific and North America, the representation of circulation anomalies over Eurasia is poor, especially for sea level pressure (SLP), which limits the prediction skill for surface air temperature over East Asia. The representation of SLP anomalies might be associated with the model performance in simulating the interaction between atmospheric circulations and underlying surface conditions.

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利用英国气象局全球季节预测模式(GloSea5)的历史回算数据, 评估了模式对东亚冬季风强度和相关环流系统的模拟和预测能力, 分析了模式不同超前时间预报的技巧和误差增长情况. 研究发现, GloSea5模式对东亚冬季风环流和气温分布具有较好的模拟能力, 但是仍然存在较为明显的系统性偏差. GloSea5模式预测的冬季西伯利亚高压较之实况偏强, 极涡偏弱, 对我国大部地区冬季平均气温预测较之实况偏低, 特别是东北和华北等地. 尽管存在明显的系统性偏差, 但是GloSea5模式对东亚冬季风强度的年际变化仍然具有较好的预测能力, 10月起报(超前2月)的东亚冬季风强度指数与实况的距平相关系数达到0.56, 通过了99%信度检验. 分析表明, 模式10月预报技巧相对较高与对东亚冬季气温北方和南方模态的把握较好有关. 此外, 针对GloSea5模式对东亚冬季风与ENSO之间关系的模拟能力进行分析, 给出ENSO和北极涛动(AO)不同位相背景下, 模式对大气环流和气温的预测技巧及误差分布特征. GloSea5模式对与ENSO相联系的太平洋北美型遥相关和西北太平洋反气旋具有较高的预报技巧, 但是对欧亚中高纬度环流形势的预测技巧相对较低.

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Data availability. The GloSea5 data used in this study are archived at the Met Office and are available to research collaborators upon request. The ERA5 reanalysis data are available at https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu. The monthly Niño-3.4 index can be downloaded from the official website of BCC/CMA at http://cmdp.ncc-cma.net/pred/cn_enso.php?product=cn_enso_nino_indices. The monthly AO index, which extends from 1950 to 2022, is available ao_index.

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This research was jointly supported by the State Key Program of the National Natural Science of China (Grant No. 41730964), the National Key Research and Development Program on Monitoring, Early Warning and Prevention of Major Natural Disaster (2018YFC1506000), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41975091 and 42175047), National Basic Research Program of China (2015CB453203), and UK-China Research & Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China as part of the Newton Fund.

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• GloSea5 reproduces the climatology and interannual variability of EAWM index well with a two-month forecast lead time.

• Both the northern and southern modes of SAT in the EAWM region was captured well by GloSea5, despite the evolvement of systematic model bias.

• GloSea5 realistically simulates the WNPAC associated with ENSO, while the prediction skill for mid-high-latitude Eurasia is relatively low.

※ This paper is a contribution to the 2nd Special Issue on Climate Science for Service Partnership China.

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Zhang, D., Chen, L., Martin, G.M. et al. Seasonal Prediction Skill and Biases in GloSea5 Relating to the East Asia Winter Monsoon. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 40, 2013–2028 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-023-2258-8

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