Pacific Oscillation (APO), a dominant mode of atmospheric variability characterized by a seesaw variation in the upper-tropospheric temperature between Asia and the North Pacific, plays important roles in the atmospheric circulation and climate of East Asia. A recent study using state-of-the-art climate models projected a weakening of the winter APO in the expected warmer world of the second half of the 21st century. However, the nature of its relationship with the atmospheric circulation and climate of East Asia in the future remains unknown.
What this showed is that, when the winter APO is in a positive phase, the East Asian westerly jet shifts northwards, accompanied by anomalous descending motion and water vapor flux divergence over southern China. Theseanomalies are unfavorable for the occurrence of precipitation in southern China.
The model ensemble was then used to examine the relationship between the APO and precipitation over southern China in winter under the future scenario of high greenhouse gas emissions . The projection revealed a weakening in their relationship during the second half of the 21st century under the SSP5-8.5 scenario, as compared to the present day.
Such a weakening may result from a weaker link between precipitation over southern China and the meridional displacement of the East Asian jet. These results are encouraging for understanding atmospheric signals and climate regimes over the Asian–Pacific sector in the context of global warming. "This finding reflects a possible estimate from state-of-the-art climate models. However, there are some uncertainties due to differences in the emission scenarios and the models themselves. We intend to carry out further studies to reduce these uncertainties in the future," says Prof. Zhou, the corresponding author of the study.
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