Impacts of Seasonal Transitions of ENSO on Atmospheric River Activity over East Asia

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  • NAOI Moeka
    Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
  • KAMAE Youichi
    Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
  • UEDA Hiroaki
    Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
  • MEI Wei
    Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

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  • 東アジアにおける大気の川の活動に対するENSOの季節的な遷移の影響
  • NOTES and CORRESPONDENCE : Impacts of Seasonal Transitions of ENSO on Atmospheric River Activity over East Asia

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<p>Atmospheric rivers (ARs), which are narrow water vapor transport bands over the mid-latitudes, often have great socio-economic impacts over East Asia. Although summertime AR activity over East Asia is strongly induced by preceding-winter El Niño development, the extent to which seasonal transitions of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) from winter to summer affect the AR activity remains unclear. Here, we examine the relationship between the seasonal transitions of ENSO and the summertime AR activity over East Asia using an atmospheric reanalysis and high-resolution atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM) ensemble simulations. A rapid transition from preceding-winter El Niño to summertime La Niña results in more AR occurrence over northern East Asia via the northward expansion of an anomalous low-level anticyclone over the western North Pacific compared with sustained or decayed El Niño cases. The northward expansion of the anticyclone is consistent with a steady response of the atmosphere to the anomalous condensation heating over the Maritime Continent and equatorial Pacific. Meridional positions of the extratropical AR occurrence and circulation anomalies are different between the reanalysis and AGCM simulations, which is possibly contributed by a limited sample size and/or AGCM biases and suggests that the seasonal prediction of AR-related natural disaster risk over East Asia on a regional scale remains a challenge.</p>

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