An Index Measuring the Interannual Variation of the East Asian Summer Monsoon--The EAP Index
Based on the EAP (East Asia/Pacific) teleconnection in the summer circulation anomalies over the Northern Hemisphere,an index measuring the strength of the East Asian summer monsoon,i.e.,the socalled EAP index,is defined in this paper.From the analyses of observed data,it is clearly shown that the EAP index defined in this study can well describe the interannual variability of summer rainfall and surfaceair temperature in East Asia,especially in the Yangtze River valley and the Hualhe River valley,Korea,and Japan.Moreover,this index can also reflect the interannual variability of the East Asian summer monsoon system including the monsoon horizontal circulation and the vertical-merldional circulation cell over East Asia.From the composite analyses of climate and monsoon circulation anomalies for high EAP index and for low EAP index,respectively,it is well demonstrated that the EAP index proposed in this study can well measure the strength of the East Asian summer monsoon.
作 者： 黄刚 作者单位： RCE-TEA and LASG,Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029 刊 名： 大气科学进展(英文版) ISTIC SCI 英文刊名： ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 年，卷(期)： 2004 21(1) 分类号： 关键词： East Asia/Pacific index1 East Asian summer mozmoon interannual variability