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Using the National Center for Environment Prediction Climate Forecast System Reanalysis coupled dataset during 1979–2010, we selected four subseasonal indexes from the 16 East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM) indexes to characterize the subseasonal variability of the entire EASM system. The strongest (1996) and weakest (1998) years of the subseasonal variation were revealed based on these subseasonal EASM indexes. Furthermore, three rainfall concentration areas were defined in East Asia, and these areas were dissected by the atmospheric midlatitude jet stream axis and the position of the Western North Pacific Subtropical High (WNPSH). Then, the subseasonal effects of the WNPSH, the South Asian High (SAH), the Mongolian Cyclone (MC), and the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO) on each rainfall concentration area were studied in the strongest and weakest subseasonal variation years of the EASM. During the summer of 1998, the WNPSH and the SAH were stable in the more southern region, which not only blocked the northward progression of the BSISO but also caused the MC to advance southward. Therefore, the summer of 1998 was the weakest subseasonal variability of the EASM, but with significant subseasonal precipitation episodes in the northern and central rainfall areas. However, in 1996, the BSISO repeatedly spread northward in the south rainfall area because of the weak intensities and northern positions of the WNPSH and the SAH, which caused significant subseasonal precipitation episodes. In addition, MC was blocked to the north of approximately 42°N with a weak subseasonal rainfall.
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This work was supported by the National Key Program for Developing Basic Science (Nos. 2018YFC1505900 and 2016YFA0600303), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 42175060, 41621005, 41675064, 4167 5067, and 41875086), the Jiangsu Province Science Foundation (No. BK20201259). The authors are thankful for the support of the Jiangsu Provincial Innovation Center for Climate Change and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central University. This work was jointly supported by the Joint Open Project of KLME and CIC-FEMD (No. KL ME201902). The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis 6-hourly data used in this study was obtained from the website https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds093.0/index.html#cgibin/datasets/getWebList?
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Hu, H., Deng, Y., Fang, J. et al. Mechanism of Regional Subseasonal Precipitation in the Strongest and Weakest East Asian Summer Monsoon Subseasonal Variation Years. J. Ocean Univ. China 21, 1411–1427 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11802-022-5023-1
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