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The modern atmospheric observation and literatural historical drought-flood records were used to extract the inter-decadal signals of dry-wet modes in eastern China and reveal the possible relationship of global and China temperature changes associated with the East Asian summer monsoon advances. A climate pattern of “wet-north and dry-south” in eastern China and cool period in China and globe are associated with the strong summer monsoon that can advance further to the northernmost part in the East Asian monsoon region. On the contrary, a climate pattern of “dry-north and wet-south” in eastern China and a warm period in China and globe are associated with the weaker summer monsoon that only reaches the southern part in the region. An interdecadal oscillation with the timescale about 60 years was found dominating in both the dry-wet mode index series of the East Asian summer monsoon and the global temperature series after the secular climate states and long-term trend over inter-centennial timescales have been removed.
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Qian, W., Lin, X. & Zhu, Y. Global and China temperature changes associated with the inter-decadal variations of East Asian summer monsoon advances. Chin. Sci. Bull. 57, 3923–3930 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5318-5
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