East Asia and Western Pacific Meteorology and Climate

The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

• Foreword
• SESSION 1: Climate (I)
  • Debate on climate change of Shang dynasty in China
  • Large-scale flow characteristics during the wet and dry Mei-Yu seasons
  • The optical property of atmospheric aerosols and its influence on global change
  • The climatic effects of the stratospheric volcanic ash
  • Equatorial stratospheric flow patterns and quasi-biennial/pentaennial oscillations
  • A study on the variations of circulation pattern in the northern hemisphere and climate change in China during 1891–1990
• SESSION 2: Monsoon (I)
  • The severe floods in the Yangtzi and Huaihe river basins in the Mei-Yu period, 1991
  • The evolution of the Asian summer monsoon and its influence on the Mei-Yu activities during the TAMEX year
  • Simulation of the Asian summer monsoon in a 40-year experiment with a general circulation model
  • SST anomaly, thermodynamic forcing and Asian summer monsoon
  • Biennial oscillation associated with the East Asian summer monsoon and tropical sea surface temperature
• SESSION 3: Theoretical and Modelling
  • Flows over mountains: Coriolis force, transient trough and three dimensionality
  • Balanced atmospheric response to a moving heat source
  • Influence of dispersion effect of disturbance on atmospheric motion
  • A quasi-ageostrophic initialization with a harmonic wind lateral boundary value in a limited area model
  • An atmosphere model simulating short-term climate variations over the tropical Pacific Ocean
  • The influences of mountains on a frontal system
  • A numerical study on the orographic effect on the cold surge in southern China
• SESSION 4: Numerical Weather Prediction
  • The second generation numerical weather forecasting models at the Central Weather Bureau
  • Application of new techniques to the operational system for medium range NWP at NMC of China
  • On the recent development of the U.S. Navy's operational mesoscale model
  • Primitive equation typhoon track forecast model at the Central Weather Bureau
  • A numerical study of the ERICA IOP-4 marine cyclone
  • A case study of heavy rain in Hong Kong using the Royal Observatory Limited-Area Model
• SESSION 5: Typhoons
  • The structure of STS Cecil and its effects on the sudden changes of its track and intensity
  • A preliminary analysis of two typhoons when moving across Taiwan
  • Physical processes involved in typhoon track deflections caused by the Taiwan orography
  • Numerical simulation study of the effects of multiple-typhoon interaction on the unusual movement of typhoons over South China Sea
  • The asymmetric flow associated with tropical cyclone motion
• SESSION 6: Climate (II)
  • Relationship between El Nino event and atmospheric circulation, typhoon activity and flooding
  • The effect of equatorial eastern Pacific SST anomaly on the middle-latitude circulation
  • Effect of the 1986/87, 1991/92 El Nino and the 1988/89 anti-El Nino on the northern winter monsoon in Malaysia
  • Response of Asia-Pacific climate to the Arctic sea ice extent
  • The warming of tropical sea surface temperature and its relationship with the climate anomaly in south China
  • Climatic regionalization of China using multivariate statistical analysis
• SESSION 7: Monsoon (II)
  • The connection between the East Asia cold surge and the tropical western Pacific westerly wind burst
  • The structure of Asia-Pacific region low-frequency disturbances in winter and their interaction with the Australian summer monsoon
  • A case study of development and structure of a cold surge in East Asia
  • An isentropic analysis on the behavior of polar air mass and cold surge in East Asia
  • Multiple-set canonical correlation analysis of winter monsoon cold surges over the South China Sea
  • Applications of the static energy analysis method in the equatorial Singapore region
• SESSION 8: Western Pacific Systems
  • The upper level cold core low over East Asia and the western North Pacific in the warm season
  • Relationship between synoptic-scale transient activity and summertime intraseasonal fluctuations in the Asiatic monsoon region
  • Nonlinear energy exchanges among super cloud clusters, cloud clusters and intraseasonal variations
  • A study on the characteristics of the low-frequency oscillation over the West Pacific and correlations between it and subtropical high and typhoons
  • Coupled tropical-extratropical modes in East Asia and the western Pacific
  • The air-sea transfer of heat and momentum in the western Pacific
• SESSION 9: Mesoscale (I)
  • On the frontal structures in the boundary layer
  • On orographic influence on precipitation
  • Numerical simulation of the internal structure of a mesoscale convective system
  • An investigation of mesoscale convective cloud clusters over south China
  • Meso-beta scale analysis and forecasting of abrupt heavy rain
• SESSION 10: Remote Sensing
  • Monitoring and forecasting soil moisture in Shangqiu Prefecture by AVHRR data
  • Airborne measurement of an oceanic mesoscale convective system during TAMEX
  • Using the global positioning system for detecting climate change
  • Forecasting typhoon movement using satellite imagery
  • Ground-based microwave remote sensing of cloudy and rainy atmosphere
  • An operational cloud classifier for satellite images
• SESSION 11: Mesoscale (II)
  • A study on the frontogenetical processes of the Mei-Yu front
  • An analysis of Meiyu (Baiu) fronts and convective cloud clusters during TAMEX
  • A comparison of the conceptual model of mesoscale convective systems evolution during TAMEX period
  • A study on the pattern, structure and movement of the Mei-Yu frontal rainband in the vicinity of Taiwan area
  • Heavy rainfall under the combined influence of the tropical and Mei-Yu frontal systems
  • Investigation of a weakly disturbed cold front during TAMEX IOP 9
• SESSION 12: Applications
  • Monitoring and prediction of heavy rainfalls in China
  • CWB weather integration and nowcasting system
  • Developing an X-window workstation for the FSL-CWB Joint Forecast Systems
  • Intelligent prediction system—application of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition in meteorology
  • Summer and winter patterns of human thermal stress in Hong Kong
  • Acid precipitation in Hong Kong
• Poster Sessions
  • Rainfall estimation using geostationary meteorological satellite images
  • Areal rainfall estimates from the Taiwan Hualein radar data
  • A study of the heat and water budgets in the tropical convective system: climate implications
  • The influence of atmospheric circulation on the transport of background air: a climatological analysis in Taiwan area
• Author Index