Abstract
In this study, we analyzed the impacts of Western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH) on tropical cyclone (TC) activity on both interannual and interdecadal timescales. Based on a clustering analysis method, we grouped TCs in the Western North Pacific into three clusters according to their track patterns. We mainly focus on Cluster 1 (C1) TCs in this work, which is characterized by forming north of 15° N and moving northward. On interannual timescale, the number of C1 TCs is influenced by the intensity variability of the WNPSH, which is represented by the first Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) of 850 hPa geopotential height of the region. The WNPSH itself is modulated by the El Niño–Southern Oscillation at its peak phase in the previous winter, as well as Indian and Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies in following seasons. The second EOF mode shows the interdecadal change of WNPSH intensity. The interdecadal variability of WNPSH intensity related to the Pacific climate regime shift could cause anomalies of the steering flow, and lead to the longitudinal shift of C1 TC track. Negative phases of interdecadal Pacific oscillation are associated with easterly anomaly of steering flow, westward shift of C1 TC track, and large TC impact on the East Asia coastal area.
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1 Introduction
Tropical cyclones (TCs) over the western North Pacific (WNP) can be highly destructive, resulting in devastating losses of human life and property in coastal regions of East Asia. Improving WNP TC prediction is crucial; however, it remains a difficult task partially due to strong interannual and interdecadal variability of these TCs.
Studies have documented the variability of WNP TC activity on subseasonal, interannual and interdecadal timescales (Wang and Chan 2002; Klotzbach 2014; Li et al. 2015; Ling et al. 2016). Both the quasi-biweekly oscillation and Madden–Julian oscillation can significantly influence the TC genesis frequency (TCGF), enhancing (suppressing) TC genesis, especially over the South China Sea, in its active (break) phases (Li and Zhou 2013a, b; Zhao et al. 2016). On the interannual timescale, TC genesis locations, as well as TC intensity, are influenced by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). TCs tend to form over the southeastern WNP with stronger intensity during the warm phases of ENSO (Chan 1985, 2000; Wang and Chan 2002; Camargo and Sobel 2005; Han et al. 2016; Patricola et al. 2018; Zhao and Wang 2019). Other factors such as the sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTAs) in the Indian Ocean (IO) and the tropical North Atlantic (TNA) can also modulate the interannual variability of WNP TC activity (Zhan et al. 2011a, 2014; Tao et al. 2012; Cao et al. 2016; Yu et al. 2016).
On both the interannual and interdecadal timescale, the western North Pacific subtropical high (WNPSH) can significantly influence the genesis, intensity, lifetime and path of the TCs of the WNP (Wang et al. 2013; Kim and Seo 2016). Recently, decadal change of WNP TCGF has been detected, and many factors are found to be responsible for the decadal variability of WNP TC activity, including the tropical Pacific climate shift (Li et al. 2019), the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) (Tung et al. 2019), the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) (Henley et al. 2015; Li et al. 2015; Zhao et al. 2018b) and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) (Kossin et al. 2016; Zhang et al. 2018; Zhao et al. 2018a).
The abrupt decrease of WNP TCGF around 1997/1998 was reported and attributed to the phase change of the AMO or the IPO (Zhang et al. 2018; Zhao et al. 2018b). Further, studies have documented the poleward shift of WNP TCs’ lifetime maximum intensity locations (Kossin et al. 2014; Song and Klotzbach 2018), while others addressed the westward shift of WNP TCs and associated the shift with global warming impact (Wu et al. 2015; Wang and Wu 2016). However, most of the above studies took the WNP TCs as a whole in their analyses, without considering the diversity of location and path of the TCs. Some studies separated the WNP into the western and eastern parts, and found that the TCs over the western part are highly influenced by the SSTA in the IO (Choi et al. 2017; Bai et al. 2018). Other studies used clustering methods to group WNP TCs into different clusters, and found that the TC activities of different clusters related to the MJO in different ways (Kim and Seo 2016). The SSTAs in the eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) can also influence the activities of each cluster in different ways (Camargo et al. 2007a; Colbert et al. 2013; Kim and Seo 2016; Lodangco and Leslie 2016; Mei and Xie 2016). Most studies categorized the WNP TCs based on researcher-selected geographic boundaries (He et al. 2015b; Choi et al. 2017; Bai et al. 2018), and not in terms of TC paths or other key physical characteristics, which we will explore in this study following a previous research (Zhao et al. 2018b).
In this study, the WNP TCs are grouped into three categories according to their tracks, which are influenced by both their environmental factors and internal dynamics. To analyze the factors that may influence the interannual and interdecadal variability of different clusters of TCs, the intensity of WNPSH, SST over the global ocean, IPO index are also used. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We describe our data and methodology in Sect. 2; discuss the interannual change and mechanism of Cluster 1 TCs in Sect. 3; analyze the their interdecadal variability, especially in terms of TC genesis longitude and track longitude in Sect. 4; and discuss our major findings in Sect. 5.
2 Data and methodology
2.1 Data
The 6-hourly TC track dataset from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center was used in our study (Chu et al. 2002), which includes TC locations (longitude, latitude) and maximum sustained near-surface wind speed (Vmax) among other variables. We analyzed all TCs over the WNP, between 100° E to the dateline with a Vmax equal to or greater than 35 knots, for a total of 1182 TCs. The frequency of TC track occurrence (TCOF) was defined as the frequency of TC tracks in each 5° × 5° box, and we defined the tropical cyclone genesis frequency (TCGF) as the total number of TC generated over the WNP (Zhao et al. 2018b). Our analysis period is from 1970 to 2015 and we only focused on the typhoon season of June to October each year.
Monthly mean SST data, with a horizontal resolution of 2° × 2°, was from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Extended Reconstructed SST V5 (ERSST.v5; Huang et al. 2017). Monthly atmospheric data, including 850 hPa wind and geopotential height, vertical zonal wind shear (VZWS) between 200 hPa and 850 hPa; and the 850–300 hPa mass-weighted steering flowing were obtained from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) reanalysis (Kalnay et al. 1996). The horizontal resolution of atmospheric reanalysis fields is 2.5° × 2.5°.
The IPO was firstly mentioned by Power et al. (1999) and later defined by Henley et al. (2015), focusing on the interdecadal variability of the Pacific basin SSTs. The tripole index was used to represent the IPO activity. This index is based on the differences between the SST over the central equatorial Pacific (170° E–90° W, 10° S–10° N) and the SST averaged over the Northwest Pacific (140° E–145° W, 25°–45° N) and Southwest Pacific (150° E–120° W, 50°–15° S).
2.2 Methods
In this study, we used an objective clustering technique which was originally developed by Gaffney et al. (2007) and has been applied to investigate TC interannual variability by Camargo et al. (2007a, b), Mei and Xie (2016) and Zhao et al. (2018b). We classified the WNP TCs during 1970–2015 into three distinct clusters by track pattern: westward moving, northward moving, and northwestward moving. This is different from the subjective clustering method based on geographic locations (Choi et al. 2015, 2017; He et al. 2015a). We used the K-means clustering method to represent TC locations distribution as a convex combination of component density functions. This method is based on a linear regression mixture model, and one of the crucial features of the model is that it can simulate highly non-Gaussian, multimodal densities. The component densities modeled geographic locations of a TC track versus time in quadratic polynomial regression functions. The model was fed the TC longitude and latitude locations, which are treated as conditionally independent variable, meaning the complete function for a TC track was a combination of TC longitude and latitude locations. The track of each TC was generated by one of the three different regression models. Each regression model possesses its own shape-function parameters. Given a TC track, the clustering algorithm was first to learn the parameters of all three models. It means that the assigned cluster had the highest posterior probability for the given track. An expectation maximization (EM) algorithm was also introduced for training parameters of clustering model. This algorithm iterated through the expectation (“E”) and maximization (“M”) steps until convergence. In our study, the algorithm was initialized by selecting the expectation (“E”) randomly and then trained “M” steps. The threshold was set to 10−8 for the convergence of iteration process, and the best solution obtained from 10 steps of EM was selected to avoid poor local maxima in the parameter space. Detailed parameter settings of the clustering model can be found in Camargo et al. (2007a), Gaffney et al. (2007), Mei and Xie (2016) and Zhao et al. (2018b).
When analyzing the impact of the IPO on circulation fields, regression analyses were conducted after that the interannual variability of each variable was removed using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) filter. The significance test was carried out based on Student’s t test after adjusting the degree of freedom using the method of Bretherton et al. (1999). The June-October (JJASO) averaged 850 hPa geopotential height anomalies over WNP was utilized to conduct EOF analysis (the trend is removed before performing EOF analysis), the first PC1 represents the interannual variability of WNPSH intensity while the second PC2 indicates the interdecadal change of WNPSH location. For composite analysis of interannual timescale, we chose nine strong WNPSH years (1973, 1980, 1983, 1987, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2008, and 2010) and eight weak WNPSH years (1972, 1974, 1978, 1984, 1994, 2001, 2009, and 2012) based on the criterion that the absolute value of the WNPSH intensity index (PC1) is more than one standard deviation away from its average. Note that most of the strong WNPSH years such as 1973, 1983, 1987, 1995, 1998, and 2010 were also decaying years of El Niño. For interdecadal timescale, we chose the two negative phases during 1970–1976 and 1998–2015, a positive phase during 1977–1997 based on the tripole index, as interdecadal change of WNPSH location (PC2).
3 Results
3.1 TC clustering analysis
Figure 1 shows three distinct TC track clusters based on our clustering analysis. There are 423 TCs in Cluster 1 (C1, Fig. 1a), accounting for 35.8% of the total 1182 TCs during 1970–2015 over the WNP. Cluster 2 (C2, Fig. 1d) and Cluster 3 (C3, Fig. 1g) account for 24.4% and 39.8% of the total, respectively. The C1 TCs mostly formed over the WNP north of 15° N, under the influence of the WNPSH and moves northward in general, the black line in Fig. 1a representing the average movements of C1 TCs. Most of the C2 TCs, however, formed south of 15° N of the WNP and east of the Philippines. They tend to move northwestward. The C3 TCs formed west of 145° E over the tropical WNP and moved westward straightly. Most of the C3 TCs passed through the SCS, making landfalls over southern China and the Southeast Asia coastal area. Zhao et al. (2018b) discussed the decrease of C2 TCGF, which contributed to the recent abrupt decrease of the total WNP TCs. Some studies have shown that the C3 TCs were mainly impacted by the SSTA in the IO, and moderately influenced by the MJO (Zhan et al. 2011b; Li and Zhou 2013b, 2014; Bai et al. 2018). In this study, we focused on the mechanism responsible for the interannual and interdecadal variability of C1 TCs.
Most of the WNP TCs appeared during the typhoon season from June to October (JJASO). The number of C1 TCs during each typhoon season in 1970–2015 had large interannual variability (Fig. 1c). To analyze environmental factors that influence the number of C1 TCs, Fig. 2 shows the regressed SSTA (Fig. 2a), JJASO-averaged geopotential height (Fig. 2b), low-level winds (Fig. 2c) and VZWS (Fig. 2d) upon the normalized time series of JJASO-averaged C1 TCGF. Clearly, the C1 TCGF was tightly related to the WNPSH. Increased number of C1 TC is associated with significant negative geopotential height and cyclonic circulation anomalies over the WNP (Fig. 2b) and significant negative SSTAs in both EP and IO (Fig. 2a). This may be related to the phase change of ENSO, similar to previous results (Wang et al. 2000; Xie et al. 2009; Stuecker et al. 2013, 2015; Xiang et al. 2013).
Using EOF analysis, the JJASO-averaged 850 hPa geopotential height anomalies, after removing the linear trend from 1970 to 2015, can be separated into different spatial modes that have variability on different timescales. The first EOF mode (PC1) accounts for 58.4% of the total variance, while the second (PC2) accounts for additional 20.1%. The first EOF mode shows a basin-uniform geopotential height anomaly centered at 150° E, 20° N (Fig. 3a). Not surprisingly, the PC1 is significantly correlated with the C1 TCGF, with a correlation coefficient of − 0.59 for the period 1970–2015 (Table 1), which means that the WNPSH intensity tightly relate to TC genesis change over the WNP (Fig. 3b). The second EOF mode displays a west–east contrast of the geopotential height anomaly, and its principal component (PC2; blue line) has interdecadal variability (Fig. 3c, d). The PC2 was in a negative phase during 1970–1976 and 1998–2015, but in a positive phase during 1977–1997. More interestingly, the PC2 is significantly correlated with the JJASO-averaged IPO index (red line) in Fig. 3d, with the correlation coefficients of 0.90 in the interdecadal timescales for 1970–2015.
Table 1 shows the correlation coefficients between variables in the first column and different rows, including the TCGFs of each cluster, PC1, PC2 and the unfiltered IPO index. First, PC1, which represents the interannual variability of WNPSH intensity, is significantly correlated with the C1 TCGF, with a correlation coefficient of − 0.59 over the study period. Second, PC2 is significantly correlated with the IPO index, with a correlation coefficient of 0.78. Third, the unfiltered IPO index is significantly correlated with C2 TCGF (Zhao et al. 2018b), while PC2 is also significantly correlated with the IPO index. The above analysis indicates that the activity of C1 TCs is influenced by WNPSH intensity on interannual timescale, and IPO on interdecadal time scale.
3.2 Interannual variability of C1 TC
To analyze the mechanism of C1 TCs on interannual timescale, Fig. 4 shows the composite differences of JJASO-averaged 850 hPa geopotential height and winds, frequencies of TC track occurrence and TCGF between nine strong and eight weak WNPSH years as defined in Sect. 2. The composite difference of 850 hPa geopotential height between strong and weak WNPSH years shows positive geopotential height anomalies with anomalous anticyclonic circulation over the WNP (Fig. 4a, b). Correspondingly, both the frequency of TC track occurrence and TCGF (Fig. 4c, d) significantly decreased due to the unfavorable environmental condition of positive geopotential height and anticyclonic circulation anomalies. Thus, the intensity change of WNPSH dominated the interannual variability of C1 TCGF.
Since several weak WNPSH years were also the decaying years of El Niño events, it should be interesting to analyze the relationship between El Niño events and TC activity. Figure 5 displays the regressed SSTAs from previous winter (DJF) to following summer (JJASO) on the normalized JJASO-averaged PC1. The intensity of WNPSH in the following summer is related with EP SST anomaly at the peak phase of ENSO, i.e., previous DJF, whereas the correlation is relatively weak over the IO and TNA basins (Fig. 5a). During MAM, the correlation over the EP weakens while it is strengthened over the IO and the TNA from, which indicates that both the IO and NTA play roles in storing the heat due to the ENSO impact during its decaying (Du et al. 2009; Xie et al. 2009). So, the C1 TCGF can be significantly influenced by the ENSO, and this impact is sustained due to the capacity effect of the IO and TNA.
We then examined the evolution of 850 hPa wind from previous winter (DJF) to following summer (JJASO) regressed on the normalized JJASO-averaged WNPSH index PC1. The El Niño can induce strong equatorial easterly anomalies over the western part of WNP, as well as a weak anomalous anticyclonic circulation over the Philippines (Fig. 6a). During its decaying period, the El Niño warms the IO and the TNA, intensifying the anticyclone in the following TC season and significantly suppressing C1 TC genesis over the WNP (Fig. 6b, c). Previous studies (Zhan et al. 2011a, b, 2014; Yu et al. 2016) have already discussed the relay effect of Indian Ocean (IO) and Atlantic Ocean (ATL) SSTAs from the decaying ENSO, which persist to affect the TCs over the WNP. After calculating the monthly lead-lag correlation coefficients between JJASO-averaged WNPSH index and Niño3.4 (IO and ATL SST indices) from previous December to following October (Fig. 7), we found that the highest correlation coefficient between WNPSH and Niño3.4 appears in previous December, and slowly decreases from January to October with the increased impact of IO and ATL SSTAs on the WNPSH from spring to summer. The IO and ATL SSTAs affect the WNPSH and eventually modulate the TCs (JJASO) over the WNP.
4 Impact of the WNPSH on interdecadal change of C1 TC longitude
The second EOF of WNPSH has interdecadal variability, which was not discussed extensively by previous works. We investigate the influence of interdecadal variability of WNPSH on C1 TC tracks (Fig. 8), by comparing the time series of unfiltered (Fig. 8a, b) and filtered (Fig. 8c, d) IPO index (red), PC2 (WNPSH, dashed red), the JJASO-averaged TC genesis longitude (black) and track longitude (blue).
First, we can see that the unfiltered PC2 (IPO) index is significantly correlated with track locations of C1 TCs from 1970 to 2015 with the correlation coefficient 0.29 (Fig. 8a) and the correlation is even higher (r = 0.44) between PC2 and annual-averaged genesis locations (Fig. 8b). From 1977 to 1997, the PC2 (IPO) was in its positive phase and the PC2 (IPO) was in negative phase before 1977 and after 1997 in our analysis period. The TC genesis and track longitudes also show the consistent interdecadal change with the PC2, higher during the positive phase and lower during the negative phase, which means that during positive IPO phases both TC genesis and track locations shift eastward and vice versa. Further, we calculated the correlation coefficients after removing the interannual signals (< 10 years) using FFT. The PC2 is highly correlated with both C1 TC genesis and track longitude, both significant with the respective coefficient 0.61 and 0.52 after adjusting the degree of freedom (Bretherton et al. 1999). Both PC2 and C1 TC genesis longitude are also significantly correlated with the IPO index (Fig. 8), with a correlation coefficient of 0.90 between PC2 and the IPO, 0.63 between C1 TC genesis longitude and the IPO. The genesis and track location indices show consistent variability and phase shifts with the IPO. Lastly, we regressed the SSTAs onto the PC2 index (Fig. 9) after removing the interannual variability. From Fig. 9, we can see that the second mode of WNPSH is dominated by the IPO pattern. In general, the phase shift of PC2 is consistent with the change of the IPO, suggesting that the IPO may affect the west–east movements of the WNPSH (Fig. 3c) and lead to the west–east shift of C1 TC genesis locations and C1 tracks.
Based on different phases of the IPO, we did composites of the JJASO-averaged WNPSH, 850 hPa wind, frequency of TC track occurrence, and TCGF between negative IPO phases (1970–1976 and 1998–2015) and positive IPO phases (1977–1997) (Fig. 10). During negative phase of IPO, the WNPSH was intensified with positive anomaly over the eastern part of the WNP. The composite of SSTA between negative and positive phases show a clear negative IPO pattern (Fig. 10e). The positive anomaly of 850 hPa geopotential height was coincided with an anomalous geostrophic flow over the subtropical region (Fig. 10a) in the negative IPO phase. The intensified WNPSH leads to easterly anomalies of the 850–300 hPa steering flow (Fig. 10b) and further drives the westward shift of the TC track longitude (Fig. 10c), as well as the TC genesis longitude (Fig. 10d), resulting in increased threats to Japan and part of East China.
5 Conclusion and discussion
We used clustering analysis to categorize the WNP TCs into three clusters (Fig. 1), the C2 TCs and C3 TCs were discussed in Zhao et al. (2018b), Zhan et al. (2011a, b) and Li and Zhou (2013b, 2014). In this study, we mainly focused on the C1 TCs, which mostly formed north of 15° N over the WNP, and tended to move northward. The first EOF mode of JJASO-averaged 850 hPa geopotential height over the region 10° N–30° N, 100° E–180° (Wang et al. 2013), representing the WNPSH, shows significant interannual variability. The WNPSH dominated the C1 TCGF over the WNP. The positive WNPSH anomaly was accompanied by anomalous anticyclonic wind, significantly reducing C1 TC genesis, and vice versa (Fig. 4). The intensity change of the WNPSH was influenced by the ENSO events of previous winter (Fig. 5). The decaying ENSO stored heat in the IO and TNA, and continued to affect the WNPSH and eventually modulate the C1 TCGF in the following typhoon season (JJASO) through teleconnections over the WNP.
The PC2 of WNPSH (Fig. 3d) was in positive phase for the period 1977–1997, but in negative phase both before and after that, which shows a clear interdecadal variability, consistent with the phase of the IPO. Further analysis indicated that the IPO dominated the second mode of WNPSH, inducing the pressure and wind anomalies over the WNP. Although the C1 TCGF has no significant relationship with IPO or PC2, both the averaged TC genesis longitude and averaged TC track longitude have significant correlation with IPO, as well as with PC2 (Fig. 8). The composite differences of C1 TC tracks between the negative and positive IPO phases suggests that the steering flow anomaly could guide C1 TCs more often to the coastal region during the negative IPO phase than during the positive phase.
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This work has been supported by NSF of China (41630423, 91637209), and National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFA0600402), the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant no. XDA20060500). The comments from two reviewers are very helpful for the revision of the manuscript. The JTWC best track TC data are available at https://metoc.ndbc.noaa.gov/web/guest/jtwc/best_tracks. The monthly mean SST data are from https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v4.html. The NCEP/NCAR reanalysis I data are obtained from https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.html. The unfiltered Tripole Index data for the IPO are downloaded from https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/timeseries/IPOTPI/. The clustering model for TCs is available at http://www.datalab.uci.edu/resources/CCT.
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Wu, Q., Wang, X. & Tao, L. Interannual and interdecadal impact of Western North Pacific Subtropical High on tropical cyclone activity. Clim Dyn 54, 2237–2248 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-05110-7
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