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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 126, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2020JD033465
关键词
land– sea contrast; Madden– Julian Oscillation; Maritime Continent; westerly winds
资金
- ONR [N00014-1601-3091, N0001416WX01752]
- National Science Foundation
The contrast between land and sea in the Maritime Continent affects the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). Removing an island can lead to changes in precipitation patterns in surrounding islands, with increased precipitation to the east and decreased precipitation to the west. This highlights the significant influence of individual islands on precipitation in neighboring areas.
The land-sea contrast in the Maritime Continent (MC) has been found to influence the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). However, the specific contribution from individual islands to the precipitation over the surrounding islands during MJO propagation is not well known. We found that when an island is removed in the presence of lower-tropospheric westerlies, precipitation increases over islands that are located to its east due to the strengthening of the westerlies. Frictional convergence of the stronger westerlies, aided by Coriolis, leads to an increase in vertical advection of moisture and precipitation over an island located to the east. On the other hand, the reduced heating over the removed island reduces the westerlies and precipitation to the west of the removed island and is consistent with the response of large-scale circulation to tropical heating. During background easterlies prior to MJO arrival, a systematic decrease in precipitation was found in the surrounding islands to the west side of the removed island. But, on the eastern side of the removed island, no systematic change in precipitation was found. The results imply that changes in large-scale circulation in response to convection (or a lack thereof) over a removed island may significantly influence precipitation in the neighboring islands. Therefore, biases in model precipitation over an island in the MC may arise from bias in precipitation over a neighboring island. Moreover, the presence of different island chains in the MC has led to a more conducive environment for more overall precipitation over the islands in the MC.
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