In recent decades, severe and long duration drought events have serious impacts on northern China. Consequently, this study is motivated by investigating the projection and uncertainties of drought change over northern China based on 20 CMIP5 multi‐model ensemble (AMME) and best multi‐model ensemble (BMME) under middle and high emission scenarios. BMME selected in term of the spatial patterns and interannual

We evaluated the dependence of the sensible heat flux trend over the Tibetan Plateau on elevation by comparing the 29 climate models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) with ground observations in the time period 1980–2005. The sensible heat flux trend over the Tibetan Plateau shows an elevation‐dependent variation in both the observations and reanalysis datasets, with a larger

Drought is one of the most destructive types of natural disasters, causing great losses of every aspects worldwide. Using a three‐dimensional (longitude, latitude, and time) clustering method based on gridded 3 month standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index data with a resolution of 0.25° collected for East China between 1960 and 2017, we identified and analyzed five characteristics of drought

The prolonged droughts that frequently occur in northern China are related to persistent anomalies of circulation and the low‐frequency waves. To explore the formation of the low‐frequency waves and the related internal variability and external forcing, the intraseasonal kinetic energy (KE) and the corresponding energy transfer terms are investigated algorithmically with multiscale energy and vorticity

Instrumental data indicate the occurrence of a dipolar pattern of precipitation anomalies between north China and the Yangtze River Valley (YRV), which was termed “northern drought (flood) – southern flood (drought)” scenario. It has been shown that this pattern occurred during the Medieval Climate Anomaly and the Little Ice Age. However, there are questions about whether this dipolar pattern also

Monsoon boundary zone (MBZ) is a transitional zone between the arid Central Asia (ACA) and humid Asia monsoon area, located in North China‐Mongolia. During boreal summer, both the westerlies and East Asian Summer monsoon (EASM) play essential roles in the precipitation variations in the MBZ, via causing anomalous cold air mass from the west and warm/humid air from the south to the MBZ. In this study

The Transitional Climate Zone (TCZ) over East Asia is an interface area between monsoon circulation and westerly circulation, making it highly susceptible to natural disasters and climate change. This study explores the spatial‐temporal variation of the summer (May to September) TCZ during 1961‐2018 and its response to monsoon rainy season. The summer Aridity Index (AI) instead of annual amount is

The studies of associations between solar inputs and climate are mostly designed for winter or cold period; whereas the knowledge about these associations during spring on a day‐to‐day time scale are very scarce. Therefore, the aim of this study is to detect the response of spring air temperature (T), relative humidity (RH), and atmospheric pressure (ATP) to variation in teleconnection indices and

The present study examines the relationship between the tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) significant wave height (SWH) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) during boreal summer season (JJA, June through August) in the latest version of ECMWF reanalysis (ERA5) and wave simulations forced with surface winds and sea‐ice fields from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project version‐5 (CMIP5) models. The interannual

Observations from the historical meteorological observing network contain many artefacts of non‐climatic origin which must be accounted for prior to using these data in climate applications. State‐of‐the‐art homogenisation approaches use various flavours of pairwise comparison between a target station and candidate neighbour station series. Such approaches require an adequate number of neighbours of

Using both observation and CMIP5 simulation data, this study investigates the shifts of climate zones from a landscape perspective on the Arctic for the period 1940‐2013. The results reveal that the reduction in area is often accompanied by the fragmentation of the spatial structure. In terms of percentage of landscape, the coverage of polar climate zone had undergone a rapid decrease from 1940 to

The annual temperature cycle affects atmospheric circulation, biomass cycling, and human life. Its variation is influenced by surface solar radiation, which plays a key role in surface energy budgets. In this study, the Fourier transform method is used to analyze the spatial distribution and long term variations in temperature phase, amplitude, and baseline terms between 1960 and 2016 in China. Mean

This work investigates the spatial and temporal variability of the monsoon inversion (MI) over the Arabian Sea for the study of 37‐years period (1980 to 2016) using MERRA version2 (MERRA2) reanalysis and downscaled simulations generated with the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model. After validating the downscaled products with the observations from four radiosonde stations (Salalah, Mumbai

We present results from an analyses of cloud cover based on profiles of the attenuated backscatter coefficient from an 8‐year long data series (July 2011 – April 2019). The observations are carried out in the high Arctic by a ceilometer with a maximum range setting of 7.7 km from the Villum Research Station at Station Nord, Greenland. Results show that the hourly cloud cover turned out to follow a

This study uses six Regional Climate Model (RCM) experiments from the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment – Southeast Asia (CORDEX‐SEA) and their driving Global Climate Models (GCM) to investigate the model performance and the Time of Emergence (ToE) of temperature and precipitation over Vietnam and its seven sub‐climatic regions. A simple delta (multiplicative) bias correction (BC)

Modelling and forecasting of rainfall behaviour is of essential importance in various hydrological and meteorological studies, which depends largely on properly understanding the underlying rainfall dynamics. In this paper, 20‐years (i.e., 2000‐2019) measurements of daily rainfall data at 6 rain gauge stations in Hong Kong were analysed in the framework of nonlinear dynamic analysis. Phase space reconstruction

In a changing climate, drought and flood hazards become more frequent, posing high risks to human life and property. The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is selected as the study area. The flood and drought records, and the daily precipitation data at 23 stations from 1958 to 2016 are adopted. The temporal and spatial trends of precipitation intensities, precipitation days and the corresponding proportions

Substantial marine, terrestrial, and atmospheric changes have occurred over the Greenland region during the last century. Several studies have documented record‐levels of Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) summer melt extent during the 2000s and 2010s, but relatively little work has been carried out to assess regional climatic changes in other seasons. Here, we focus on the less studied cold‐season (i.e.,

This paper analyzes the different relationships between the two types of South Asian highs (SAH)—the southern mode of the SAH (SSAH) and the traditional SAH in its entirety (ESAH)—with respect to the variations in summer rainfall over East Asia. The ESAH is closely related to summer rainfall over northeastern China, whereas the SSAH is closely linked to summer rainfall over the Yangtze River valley