Bo Sun, Huixin Li, Botao Zhou
Abstract This study documents an interdecadal variation in the pattern of Indian Ocean basin mode (IOBM) of sea surface temperature (SST) during boreal summer, where the center of action in the IOBM shifted towards the Arabian Sea after the late 1970s. Correspondingly, the influences of an interannu...
Exavery Kisesa Makula, Botao Zhou
Abstract This study evaluates the performance of 43 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) models in reproducing annual cycle, climatology, and trend of observed precipitation over East Africa during 1950–2014. The results show that the CMIP6 models display good performance in simulat...
Bo Sun, Huijun Wang, Botao Zhou
Abstract This study investigates the climatic condition and synoptic regimes of two intense snowfall events (ISEs) in central eastern China (CEC) during January 2018, focusing on the mechanisms of northerly cold advection and southerly water vapor transport. The northerly cold advections invading CE...
Bo Sun, Huijun Wang, Huixin Li, Botao Zhou et al.
Abstract A severe persistent drought occurred in South China during autumn–winter 2020/2021, causing enormous economic losses and severe water shortage in South China. Focusing on this event, this study analyzed the climate anomalies associated with this event, and investigated the underlying mechan...
Tengfei Liu, Md. Abu Kawochar, Shahnewaz Begum, Enshuang Wang et al.
Abstract Cold-induced sweetening (CIS), the undesirable sugar accumulation in cold-stored potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers, is a severe postharvest issue in the potato processing industry. Although the process of sucrose hydrolysis by vacuolar invertase during potato CIS is well understood, ther...
Haishan Chen, Wanxin Zhan, Botao Zhou, Fanda Teng et al.
Abstract As one of the typical midlatitude synoptic‐scale disturbances, extratropical cyclones (ECs) can exert significant impacts on the atmospheric general circulation through its interaction with the time mean flow. Under the background of global warming, the Eurasian continent exhibits evident n...
Zunya Wang, Yihui Ding, Botao Zhou, Lijuan Chen
Abstract A severe low‐temperature snowstorm and ice freezing event occurred in China in early 2018. This event was similar to that occurred in early 2008 but with a weaker intensity and salient difference in location and extent. The reason for this discrepancy was investigated in this study using st...
Haishan Chen, Bo Yu, Botao Zhou, Wanxin Zhang et al.
Abstract Significant summer land surface warming has been observed in the middle latitudes over East Asia, especially after the mid-1990s, which has evidently affected the East Asian weather and climate. Using multisource observations and reanalysis data during 1979–2013, this study explores the pos...
Tengfei Liu, Md. Abu Kawochar, Shengxuan Liu, Yunxia Cheng et al.
Transitory starch and vacuolar sugars function as highly dynamic pools of instantly accessible metabolites in plant leaf cells. Their metabolic regulation is critical for plant survival. The tonoplast sugar transporters (TSTs), responsible for sugar uptake into vacuoles, regulate cellular sugar part...
Xiaolu Zhang, Xiaoxin Wang, Botao Zhou
Abstract Xinjiang, located in Northwest China, is a typical arid and semiarid region. In this region, frequent droughts have caused great losses in agricultural production and social economy. Therefore, changes in drought over Xinjiang have attracted considerable attention. This study projects the d...
Wenxin Xie, Botao Zhou, Zhenyu Han, Ying Xu
Abstract Using the dynamical downscaling by the regional climate model RegCM4 from four global climate models, future changes in heat waves (HWs) over China under the RCP4.5 scenario are projected in terms of frequency and magnitude. The magnitude combines the duration and intensity together to char...
Jiani Zeng, Huixin Li, Bo Sun, Huopo Chen et al.
Abstract This study investigates the characteristics of compound heat wave and drought events (CHDEs) across various subregions of China from 1961 to 2022 by utilizing a monthly probability-based index. The results uncover significant interregional and subseasonal variations. The trend analysis of C...
Botao Zhou, Ziyi Song, Zhicong Yin, Xinping Xu et al.
Recent rapid Arctic sea ice loss was documented as combined results from anthropogenic forcing and climate system internal variability. However, the role of internal variability is not well understood. Here, we propose that the Asian-Pacific Oscillation (APO), an intrinsic atmospheric mode featuring...
Exavery Kisesa Makula, Botao Zhou
Abstract This study assessed the change in March to May (MAM) rainfall over Tanzania during 1978–2017. It is revealed that the MAM rainfall experienced more years of negative (positive) anomalies after (before) the late 1990s. The atmospheric and oceanic background underlying such a change in MAM ra...
Botao Zhou, Wu Jia, Ying Xu, Zhenyu Han et al.
Autumn rainfall in West China, the last rainy season of China, exerts profound impacts on the economic society, therefore, researches on its changes in the context of a warmer world are crucial for better adaptation to climate change. Using the dynamical downscaling performed by the regional climate...
Huixin Li, Bo Sun, Zhongshi Zhang, Huijun Wang et al.
In the Mei-yu region, there has been noticeable increase in the occurrence of compound hot drought (CHD) events in recent years. However, the underlying causes of these occurrences remain poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, we conducted a comprehensive study utilizing observational dat...
Yuepeng Hu, Botao Zhou, Tingting Han, Huixin Li
Abstract Based on the standardized precipitation evaporation index and reanalysis data, this article reveals that the relationship between the North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and the drought over southern China in summer shifts from an insignificant correlation to a significant negative correlation ...
Xiaobin Peng, Miao Yu, Haishan Chen, Botao Zhou et al.
Abstract Wildfires are important ecosystem processes that have a significant impact on terrestrial vegetation, environment, and climate. This study investigates how future wildfire risk and activities could change under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming scenarios relative to pre-industrial levels using a mo...
Danwei Qian, Yanyan Huang, Huixin Li, Botao Zhou et al.
Abstract This study investigated the contribution of Arctic sea ice concentration (SIC) on decadal variations of the dominant mode of summer precipitation over eastern China during 1981–2020. The spatial pattern of leading empirical orthogonal function mode has changed from a dipole pattern with neg...
Wanxin Zhang, Haishan Chen, Liming Zhou, Botao Zhou et al.
Abstract Previous studies detected significant negative correlations between the nonuniform land surface warming and the decadal weakened activities of the summer extratropical cyclones (ECs) over East Asia and the East Asian summer monsoon (EASM) after the early 1990s. Here such relationships are f...