Abstract
To study the long-term variation of the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM), the Asian-Pacific Oscillation index (I APO), representing a zonal thermal contrast between Asia and the North Pacific, is reconstructed over the past millennium. During the Little Ice Age (LIA), the variability of the reconstructed I APO is closely linked to dry-wet anomalies in eastern China on the centennial scale. This correlation pattern is consistent with the observation during the current period, which suggests that the reconstructed I APO may generally represent the centennial-scale variation of the EASM and rainfall anomalies over eastern China during the LIA.
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Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40890052 and 40890053) and National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB815901)
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Zhou, X., Zhao, P. & Liu, G. Asian-Pacific Oscillation index and variation of East Asian summer monsoon over the past millennium. Chin. Sci. Bull. 54, 3768–3771 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0619-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0619-z