Pathways of Influence of the Northern Hemisphere Mid-high Latitudes on East Asian Climate: A Review

• Published in: Advances in atmospheric sciences Vol. 36; no. 9; pp. 902 - 921
• Main Authors: Li, Jianping, Zheng, Fei, Sun, Cheng, Feng, Juan, Wang, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Science Press 01-09-2019; Springer Nature B.V; College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China%State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics,Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China%College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography-Institute for Advanced Ocean Studies, Ocean University of China and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao 266003, China
• Subjects: Atmospheric Sciences; Bridges; Climate; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Geophysics/Geodesy; Latitude; Meteorology; National Reports to the IUGG by Chinese National Committee for IAMAS; Northern Hemisphere; Review; Sea ice; Synergistic effect; Tropical environments; Northern Hemisphere; East Asia; 链式耦合桥; 途径; Northern Hemisphere mid-high latitudes; 东亚气候; pathway; 海-陆-冰-气耦合桥; East Asian climate; coupled oceanic-land-sea-ice-atmospheric bridge; chain coupled bridge; 北半球中高纬变率; synergistic effect; 协同效应
• ISSN: 0256-1530; 1861-9533
• DOI: 10.1007/s00376-019-8236-5

This paper reviews recent progress made by Chinese scientists on the pathways of influence of the Northern Hemisphere mid-high latitudes on East Asian climate within the framework of a “coupled oceanic-atmospheric (land-atmospheric or sea-ice-atmospheric) bridge” and “chain coupled bridge”. Four major categories of pathways are concentrated upon, as follows: Pathway A—from North Atlantic to East Asia; Pathway B—from the North Pacific to East Asia; Pathway C—from the Arctic to East Asia; and Pathway D—the synergistic effects of the mid-high latitudes and tropics. In addition, definitions of the terms “combined effect”, “synergistic effect” and “antagonistic effect” of two or more factors of influence or processes and their criteria are introduced, so as to objectively investigate those effects in future research.