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ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 1169-1182Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-009-9121-4
Keywords
modulated annual cycle; the Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition; climate anomaly; climate normal; variability of surface air temperature in China
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- National Basic Research Program of China [2006CB400504]
- Laboratory for Climate Studies, China Meteorological Administration [LCS-2006-03]
- National Science Foundation of USA [ATM-0653136, ATM-0917743]
- National Key Technologies RD Program [2007BAC29B03]
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [0917743] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The traditional anomaly (TA) reference frame and its corresponding anomaly for a given data span changes with the extension of data length. In this study, the modulated annual cycle (MAC), instead of the widely used climatological mean annual cycle, is used as an alternative reference frame for computing climate anomalies to study the multi-timescale variability of surface air temperature (SAT) in China based on homogenized daily data from 1952 to 2004. The Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) method is used to separate daily SAT into a high frequency component, a MAC component, an interannual component, and a decadal-to-trend component. The results show that the EEMD method can reflect historical events reasonably well, indicating its adaptive and temporally local characteristics. It is shown that MAC is a temporally local reference frame and will not be altered over a particular time span by an extension of data length, thereby making it easier for physical interpretation. In the MAC reference frame, the low frequency component is found more suitable for studying the interannual to longer timescale variability (ILV) than a 13-month window running mean, which does not exclude the annual cycle. It is also better than other traditional versions (annual or summer or winter mean) of ILV, which contains a portion of the annual cycle. The analysis reveals that the variability of the annual cycle could be as large as the magnitude of interannual variability. The possible physical causes of different timescale variability of SAT in China are further discussed.
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