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Land–atmosphere interaction over the Indo-China Peninsula during spring and its effect on the following summer climate over the Yangtze River basin

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Land–atmosphere interaction plays an important role in regional weather and climate. Using the soil moisture (SM) data from the Global Land Data Assimilation System V2.0, the present study examines the land–atmosphere interaction during spring over the Indo-China Peninsula (ICP) and its effect on the following summer climate over the Yangtze River basin. The analyses show that the abnormal SM over the ICP in spring would significantly change the local surface air temperature by affecting the evapotranspiration. In particular, such a SM effect on the local air temperature can persist to the following summer owing to a strong ICP SM memory, which can in turn influence the East Asian summer monsoon as well as the remote precipitation and temperature over the Yangtze River basin. The persistent abnormally lower (higher) SM over the ICP induces less (more) local evapotranspiration, increasing (decreasing) the surface temperature. The resultant anomalous heating (cooling) over the ICP raises (lowers) the local geopotential height, which attracts (repels) the Western Pacific Subtropical High (WPSH) extending westward. Accompanied by an excessive westward extension of the summer WPSH, an anomalously enhanced southwesterly wind would bring more moisture to the Yangtze River basin at the lower troposphere. This situation intensifies the Meiyu front and precipitation over the Yangtze River basin. Further thermodynamic and dynamic analyses support that the monsoonal circulation anomalies associated with the westward extension of the WPSH mainly contribute to the summer precipitation anomalies over the Yangtze River basin. In addition, more precipitation accompanied with more cloud cover and less downward solar radiation that reduce the local air temperature, and vice versa. This highlights that the spring SM over the ICP is an important predictor for the following summer climate over the East Asia. The implication for predicting extreme weather events in summer over the Yangtze River basin is also discussed.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2018B03114 and 2019B18814), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2019M651665), the Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology of China (SKLLQG1806), the Natural Science Foundation of China (41861144013, 41831175, 41690123, 41690120, and 41406026), and the Research Fund Program of Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies (2017CCND003).

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  1. College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, China

    Chujie Gao, Gen Li, Xinyu Li, Shangmin Long & Xinmin Zeng

  2. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China

    Chujie Gao & Hong Yan

  3. Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster, Ministry of Education/International Joint Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Haishan Chen

  4. Hubei Key Laboratory for Heavy Rain Monitoring and Warning Research, Institute of Heavy Rain, China Meteorological Administration, Wuhan, China

    Hedi Ma

  5. Zhejiang Early Warning Center, Zhejiang Meteorological Bureau, Hangzhou, China

    Bei Xu

  6. Shanghai Institute of Meteorological Science, Shanghai, China

    Xing Li

  7. Institute of Earth Climate and Environment System, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Ziqian Wang & Song Yang

  8. Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Ziqian Wang & Song Yang

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Gao, C., Chen, H., Li, G. et al. Land–atmosphere interaction over the Indo-China Peninsula during spring and its effect on the following summer climate over the Yangtze River basin. Clim Dyn 53, 6181–6198 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-019-04922-x

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