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1. Seasonally evolving dominant modes of the East Asian Monsoon
Two dominant modes of the East Asian monsoon correspond to post-ENSO year and ENSO turnabout, respectively. In the first mode, during the El Ni«Ðo decaying summer, negative precipitation anomalies and associated anticyclone anomalies appears in the western North Pacific (WNP). The anticyclone anomalies cause the positive precipitation anomalies extending from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River valley and Huaihe River valley to the southern Japan. During the subsequent fall, cyclone anomalies replace the anticyclone anomalies and cover the WNP. The cyclone anomalies cause the negative precipitation anomalies over southeastern China. The anomalous precipitation pattern persists during the following winter and spring. In the second mode, during El Ni«Ðo developing summer, twin cyclonic couplet stimulated by the positive heating over the equatorial central Pacific enhance the WNP monsoon. Meanwhile, an anomalous anticyclone appears in the tropical northern Indian Ocean. During the following fall and spring, the anomalous anticyclone gradually moves to the South China Sea and WNP. The anticyclone intensifies the precipitation over southeastern China through increasing moisture transport. The anomalous anticyclone and associated precipitation anomalies maintain during the following spring through local positive air-sea feedback.
2. Relative roles of the Indian Ocean and local SSTA in forcing circulation anomalies over the WNP during El Ni«Ðo decaying summers
Numerical experiments indicate that the WNPAC is maintained by the combined effects of the local forcing of the negative SSTA in the WNP and the remote forcing from the Indian Ocean basin-wide warming. The local SSTA forcing is crucial for the WNPAC in early summer. With the attenuation of the negative SSTA, the local forcing gradually weakens as the summer progresses. With the development of the WNP monsoon trough, the remote forcing from the tropical Indian Ocean, on the other hand, strengthens from June to August. From the prediction point of view, the negative SSTA in the WNP may be a better predictor for the East Asian summer monsoon. This is because the WNPAC exerts a dominant impact on the EASM in June, when the climatological Meiyu-Baiu rain band is strongest.
3. Asymmetry of circulation anomalies in the WNP between El Ni«Ðo and La Ni«Ða
The asymmetry of the WNP low-level atmospheric circulation anomalies between El Ni«Ðo and La Ni«Ða mature winter is examined. An anomalous cyclone (WNPC) center during La Ni«Ða tends to shift westward relative to an anomalous anticyclone (WNPAC) center during El Ni«Ðo. Two factors may contribute to this asymmetric response. The first factor is the longitudinal shifting of El Ni«Ðo and La Ni«Ða anomalous heating. The second factor is attributed to the amplitude asymmetry of SST anomalies (SSTA) in the WNP viz. the amplitude of local cold SSTA during El Ni«Ðo is greater than that of warm SSTA during La Ni«Ða. The asymmetry of SSTA is originated from the asymmetric SSTA tendencies during the ENSO developing summer. Although both the precipitation and surface wind anomalies are approximately symmetric, the surface latent heat flux anomalies are highly asymmetric over the key WNP region, where the mean wind speed is small. Both the anomalous westerly during El Ni«Ðo and the anomalous easterly during La Ni«Ða in the region lead to an enhanced surface evaporation, strengthening (weakening) the cold (warm) SSTA in situ during El Ni«Ðo (La Ni«Ða). The asymmetric circulation in the WNP leads to significantly different precipitation anomalies over southeastern China, viz. the precipitation anomaly during the El Ni«Ðo mature winter is greater than its La Ni«Ða counterpart.
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The large-scale aspects that affected Isobel¡Çs lifecycle will be presented in the first half. The westerly wind burst (WWB) accompanying the onset of a Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) event over the Java Sea enhanced the cyclonic shear and convergence in the lower troposphere, providing the pre-conditioned large-scale environment for the genesis of Isobel. In the subsequent evolution, five stages are identified for the simulated Isobel, namely, the initial eddy, intensifying, temporary weakening, re-intensifying, and decaying stages. At the initial eddy stage, small-/meso-scale cyclonic vortices (eddies) developed in the zonally-elongated rainband organized in a convergent shear-line in the lower troposphere. As the MJO propagated eastward, the cyclonic eddies moved southward with intensifying convective activities, showing the signal of cyclogenesis over the Timor Sea. In an environment with weak vertical shear and low-level strong cyclonic vorticity enhanced by the trade easterlies and WWB associated with the MJO, a typical tropical cyclone structure appeared, leading to the development of tropical storm Isobel (intensifying stage). An approaching subtropical high from the southwest exposed Isobel to strong vertical shear and resulted in strong low-level large-scale stretching deformation field over Isobel as the WWB of MJO propagated eastward. This change led to the development of asymmetric structure in the inner core of Isobel and interrupted its intensification, causing a temporary weakening (temporary weakening stage). Therefore, the MJO had both positive and negative effects on the simulated Isobel¡Çs lifecycle. As the vertical shear weakened and changed the direction due to the development of upper-level anticyclonic circulation, Isobel re-intensified in response to the eyewall reformation process as a result of the inward spiraling outer rainband that was formed downshear of the vertical shear vector (re-intensifying stage). Finally Isobel decayed due to the land effect as it approached the land and made landfall in northwest Australia (decaying stage).
*Mesoscale process on genesis
In the second part, both the mesoscale and storm-scale processes in the lifecycle of the simulated Isobel will be presented. In the preconditioned favorable environment over the Java Sea, mesoscale convective vortices (MCVs) developed in the mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) enhanced convection and triggered the genesis of vortical hot towers (VHTs). The merging of multiple VHTs was found to play an important role in the formation of MCV with concentric PV monolith structure, leading to the genesis of Isobel. The genesis of Isobel was accomplished by the multiscale vortex interaction and showed a bottom-up development.
*Storm-scale process on intensification
After its genesis, Isobel developed into a tropical storm over the Timor Sea under the favorable environment. The system scale intensification (SSI) process was found to result primarily from the response of the mid-upper-level secondary circulation to the axisymmetric condensational heating in the eyewall. A potential vorticity (PV) budget analysis indicated that the cyclonic PV sources including condensing PV due to the vertical divergence and inward PV flux were enhanced by the mid-upper-level secondary circulation, leading to the intensification of Isobel. Under the unfavorable environment during the temporal weakening stage, the development of asymmetric structure almost terminated the SSI process due to the loss of axisymmetric diabatic heating and thus interrupted the intensification of Isobel. Later on, Isobel experienced axisymmetrization and the eyewall reformation with the recovery of eyewall convection, leading to the SSI process to operate effectively and thus the re-intensification of Isobel.
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