Establishment of the South Asian High over the Indo-China Peninsula During Late Spring to Summer

作     者：Lijuan WANG Aiguo DAI Shuaihong GUO Jing GE 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster Ministry of Education/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters/Science and Technology Innovation Team on Climate Simulation and Forecast Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences University at AlbanySUNY National Center for Atmospheric Research Meteorological Observatory of No.95147 Unit of PLA 

出 版 物：《Advances in Atmospheric Sciences》 (大气科学进展(英文版))

年 卷 期：2017年第34卷第2期

页      面：169-180页

核心收录：

学科分类：07[理学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 0816[工学-测绘科学与技术] 0825[工学-航空宇航科学与技术] 

基　　金：jointly supported by the Major Program of the Natural Science Researches for Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province (Grant No. 14KJA170004) the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20131432) the “333” Project of Jiangsu Province “Qing Lan” Project of Jiangsu Province the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (Grant No. AGS-1353740) the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (Grant No. DE-SC0012602) the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Grant No. NA15OAR4310086) 

主　　题：South Asian high Indo-China Peninsula diabatic heating deep convection 

摘      要：The establishment of the upper-level South Asian high(SAH) over the Indo-China Peninsula(ICP) during late boreal spring and its possible causes are investigated using long-term NCEP–NCAR and ERA-40 reanalysis and satellite-observed OLR data. Results show that, from early March to mid-April, deep convection stays south of ～6?N over the northern Sumatran islands. As the maximum solar radiation moves over the latitudes of the ICP(10?–20?N) in late April, the air over the ICP becomes unstable. It ascends over the ICP and descends over the adjacent waters to the east and west. This triggers deep convection over the ICP that induces large latent heating and strong updrafts and upper-level divergence, leading to the formation of an upper-level anticyclonic circulation and the SAH over the ICP. During early to mid-May, deep convection over the ICP intensifies and extends northwards to the adjacent waters. Strong latent heating from deep convection enhances and maintains the strong updrafts and upper-level divergence, and the SAH is fully established by mid-May. Thus, the seasonal maximum solar heating and the land–sea contrast around the ICP provide the basic conditions for deep convection to occur preferentially over the ICP, which leads to the formation of the SAH over the ICP from late April to mid-May. Simulations using Reg CM4 also indicate that the diabatic heating over the ICP is conducive to the generation and development of upperlevel anticyclonic circulation, which leads to an earlier establishment of the SAH.