%0 Journal Article
%T Relationship Between Upper-Ocean Heat Content in the Tropical Indian Ocean and Summer Precipitation in China
%A HUANG Ke
%A ZHANG Qi-Long
%A XIE Qiang
%A WANG Dong-Xiao
%A <br>HUANG Ke
%A ZHANG Qi-Long
%A XIE Qiang
%A WANG Dong-Xiao
%J 大气和海洋科学快报
%D 2012
%I 
%X An analysis of the Ishii ocean heat content (OHC) in the tropical Indian Ocean from the surface to 700-m depth shows that the OHC changes dramatically on the interannual timescale in the Indian Ocean. The first mode of empirical orthogonal function (EOF1) of the OHC shows that there is a strong air-sea interaction pattern in the Indian Ocean with a positive (negative) loading in the east and a negative (positive) loading in the west. This seesaw oscillation pattern influences the summer precipitation in China with a North-South reversed distribution. Composite analysis shows that during a positive (negative) OHC episode, an anomalous cyclonic (anticyclonic) circulation over the western Pacific and South China weakens (enhances) the monsoonal northward flow in the lower troposphere; meanwhile, anomalous meridional circulation connects the descending (ascending) branch over the Southeast Indian Ocean and the
%K oceanic heat content
%K summer precipitation
%K interannual variability
%K tropical Indian Ocean<br>oceanic
%K heat
%K content
%K summer
%K precipitation
%K interannual
%K variability
%K tropical
%K Indian
%K Ocean
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