2020/2021年冬季大范围低温寒潮过程中一种典型的平流层—对流层耦合演变模态

平流层爆发性增温（SSW）超前于对流层环流异常,是延长冬季寒潮低温预报时效的重要途径之一。然而强SSW事件前后地面温度响应的区域和时间存在不确定性,其中涉及的平流层—对流层耦合过程和机理也不十分清楚。本文采用1979～2021年ERA5再分析数据集,研究了2020/2021年冬季“偏心型”强SSW事件前后中高纬度地区地面温度异常的演变特征,并分析了其与等熵大气经向质量环流平流层—对流层分支的耦合演变模态的动力联系。结果表明,伴随此次强SSW事件,亚洲和北美中纬度地区的寒潮低温事件分别在绕极西风反转为东风之前和再次恢复为西风之后发生。SSW前后大气经向质量环流的平流层向极地暖支与对流层高层向极暖支、低层向赤道冷支之间呈现出三个阶段的耦合演变模态: 同位相“加强—加强”、反位相“加强—减弱”以及反位相“减弱—加强”。加强的质量环流对流层向赤道冷支是SSW前后寒潮低温事件的主要原因,而加强的向极地平流层暖支是SSW发生及其伴随的北极涛动负位相持续加强的主要原因。大气经向质量环流不同的垂直耦合模态取决于行星波槽脊在对流层顶和对流层中低层两个关键等熵面上的西倾角异常。西倾角异常表征大气波动的斜压性,主要通过影响关键等熵面以上向极地的净质量输送和其下向赤道的净质量输送进行调控。尤其在SSW发生后的极涡恢复期,对流层顶处异常偏弱的斜压性会加强对流层向极地暖支,进而加强向赤道冷支,有利于寒潮低温的发生。本次SSW事件前后大气经向质量环流三支的耦合演变模态,与历年平流层北半球环状模（NAM）负事件中极区平流层温度异常信号下传滞后的平流层—对流层耦合演变类型相一致,其在波动尺度方面也存在共同特征,即SSW事件或NAM负事件前期对流层一波加强且上传,后期对流层二波加强但较难上传。     

冬季中国地面气温的变化与前期北半球高层环流异常的联系

利用1960—2009年17层逐日温度场、风场和位势高度场的NCEP/NCAR再分析资料以及中国160站地面气温的观测资料,采用SVD分析、相关分析以及E-P通量计算等方法对冬季中国地面气温的变化与前期平流层异常的联系进行初步的探讨。结果表明,冬季中国平均地面气温与前期2个月北半球高层的温度场、位势高度场以及纬向风场在40 °N以北,90 °W~180 °附近,自平流层上层一直向下延伸到对流层顶附近有一个重要的相关显著区。同时发现,1月中国地面气温异常冷年所对应的北半球中高纬度高层环流异常在前期2个月内为持续性的正（风场为负）异常,而异常暖年所对应的异常随时间变化出现正负（风场为负正）异常的转变,异常自平流层上层向下延伸至对流层内。行星波异常及其传播对平流层-对流层耦合起到了重要的作用,也是造成中国地面气温异常冷（暖）的原因之一。因此,北半球高层环流的异常对中国地面气温的变化有重要的指示意义。      

青藏高原气温的年际变率与大气环状波动模

基于1961年3月至2002年2月间青藏高原地区64个台站的地面气温观测资料和ERA40再分析数据集,研究了青藏高原上空气温的年际变率及其与大尺度环流的关系。结果表明除夏季外,高原地面气温与整个北半球副热带、极地对流层的温度和位势高度有显著的同位相变化关系,而与中高纬度对流层有显著的反位相变化关系。其中北半球副热带还有5个分别位于青藏高原、西太平洋、北美西部、大西洋中部、北非到阿拉伯半岛的活动中心。这3条环状活动带和5个副热带活动中心共同组成了一种北半球大气环状波动模,其纬向特征为异常偏强的中纬度西风气流以及热带和高纬度东风气流,并伴有中纬度大气长波槽脊的减弱;经向基本特征为异常偏强的Hadley和Ferrel环流以及副热带下沉气流和中纬度上升气流,垂直方向呈相当正压结构。当这种环状波动模处于正位相时,异常增强的绝热下沉增温效应和减弱的冷空气活动共同使得高原上空对流层中、低层气温异常偏暖。     

中国冬季月地面气温的年际变化

基于观测资料和再分析资料,对我国冬季各月地面气温的年际变异时空演变以及它们之间的相互关系、相关的环流异常特征进行了统计诊断分析,并对大气内部的影响过程和机制进行解释。我国冬季各月地面气温的主要年际变异模态是除青藏高原地区外的全国一致型,其次为南北反号分布型。我国冬季1月与2月气温的主要年际变异模态之间存在显著的同相变化关系,而它们与前期12月气温的主要变异型存在一定程度的反相变化关系。我国冬季各月地面气温主要年际变异模态又与欧亚大陆更大范围的高纬—中低纬度地区气温的反号变异型直接相关。与我国冬季各月大范围的地面气温变异相关的温度异常信号存在于深厚的对流层,其中异常信号在地面最显著,其强度随高度逐渐衰减。地表温度异常可以通过地表向上长波辐射通量异常来影响近地面乃至更高层次的气温异常。在冬季各月,欧亚大陆北部上空对流层各层出现的明显西风异常加强,使得高纬度的冷空气南侵活动减弱,从而造成我国乃至更大范围且垂直深厚的气温暖异常。     

中国冬季气温季节内变率特征及环流分析

利用中国冬季逐日平均气温均方差作为气温季节内变率指标,分析其变化特征并探讨引起季节内变率异常的环流背景。结果表明,中国冬季气温季节内变率总体呈减弱趋势,对气候增暖趋势响应明显,其年代际变化和东亚冬季风年代际转折时间相吻合。当气温季节内变率异常偏强时,冬季平均环流场上呈类似准正压结构,平流层极涡偏弱,对流层中高纬呈类似斯堪的纳维亚遥相关型分布,低层西伯利亚高压偏强,北大西洋涛动(NAO)为负位相;NAO同我国东部气温变率联系密切,进一步分析揭示出NAO是通过影响西伯利亚高压的高频变化来作用于气温季节内变率。最后,通过提取天气—次季节—季节不同时间尺度上的大气环流内部变率,发现在各个尺度上,气温季节内变率均受西伯利亚高压和东亚冷涡的调控作用;尤其在天气尺度上,阿留申低压频繁波动及上游欧洲脊的稳定少动与气温变率有密切联系,季节尺度上欧亚阻塞高压和鄂霍次克海阻塞高压异常对气温变率有显著影响。     

2008年1月中国低温与北大西洋涛动和平流层异常活动的联系

运用中国160站月平均气温和NCEP/NCAR 再分析数据, 在结合近30年中国1月地面气温年际异常变化可能机理基础上, 分析了2008年1月气温异常变化的原因。结果表明: 2008年1月中国大范围气温异常偏低, 其异常变化与同期北大西洋西风急流及其相联系的北大西洋涛动遥相关环流异常有密切的关系。北大西洋急流加强东扩, 北大西洋涛动正异常, 从北大西洋经欧亚中高纬到中国北方出现波状环流异常, 贝加尔湖南侧气压偏高, 冷空气活动偏强, 是中国1月气温偏低的主要环流因子。进一步分析发现, 2008年1月中国低温还受到了平流层的影响。平流层环流异常开始于2007年9月, 对流层从2007年12月开始, 两者都在2008年1月达到最强。从平流层环流显著异常的波源区有异常的波作用量向西向下传播, 在北大西洋东部到西欧上空平流层和对流层的波向量耦合, 导致对流层该地区上空高压脊扰动加强, 扰动向北的经向热输送异常偏强, 锋区向北扩展, 相应急流异常偏北东扩; 通过波流相互作用, 扰动能量向下游频散, 引起相应遥相关环流异常, 导致2008年1月中国低温。     

中国高空温度变化初步分析

利用全国1961～2004年134个台站的探空温度资料,对我国各高度层温度变化趋势进行了初步分析,并对比讨论了与地面气温变化的关系.结果表明,自从20世纪60年代初以来,我国对流层温度变化呈微弱减少趋势,整体温度下降速率为-0.06℃/10 a;对流层中下层温度表现出微弱增加,增温速率为0.05℃/10 a,比同期地面气温增暖趋势弱得多.1961年以来,我国对流层上层和平流层底层年平均温度均呈现明显下降趋势,变化速率分别为-0.17℃/10 a和-0.22℃/10 a.近25年来中国对流层中下层的温度呈现明显上升,增温速率达到o.25℃/10 a,与地面气温变化趋势更为接近.我国高空和地面温度变化结构的这一特点与全球或北半球平均情况大体相似.但是,20世纪60年代初以来对流层中下层与地面气温变化趋势的明显差别,以及最近20多年对流层中下层与地面的同步增温,仍然需要给出合理的解释.     

北半球夏季对流层顶气压与气温的年(代)际变率与趋势分析

利用NCEP/NCAR再分析月平均资料,研究了1979—2002年夏季全球对流层顶气压和气温的分布特征与变化趋势。选取了夏季北半球对流层顶年(代)际变率最大区域来定义气压指数和气温指数。分析结果表明:(1)全球对流层顶气压和气温在北半球随纬度的增加而增大,在南半球随纬度先增大再减小,而在整个热带地区对流层顶气压和气温的分布则较为均匀。(2)全球平均的对流层顶气压和气温在分析时段内呈减小趋势,但在中高纬度地区对流层顶气压和气温存在大范围增大现象,表明二者的趋势并不是全球一致的。(3)对流层顶年(代)际变率最大值出现在北半球的中纬度地区和南半球的副热带及高纬度地区,最小值则出现在热带地区。气压指数和气温指数显示出准10年和准3～5年周期。     

对流层顶气压与气温的年(代)际变率研究:冬季特征

利用NCEP／NCAR再分析月平均对流层顶气压、气温资料，研究了1979-2002年冬季全球对流层顶气压、气温的年际和年代际变率。选取了冬季对流层项变率最大的区域来定义气压指数、气温指数。通过分析得到：（1）全球对流层项气压、气温随纬度的增加而增高，但在整个热带地区和高纬度地区对流层顶气压、气温的分布较均匀。在分析时段内全球平均的对流层顶气压呈下降趋势，气温呈降低趋势。这些从全球资料得到的结果支持了已有的从部分探空资料所得到的结果。（2）对流层顶变率最大值出现在北半球的副热带地区，最小值出现在低纬度地区。气压指数和气温指数显示出准13a及准3～6a的周期。在1992年以前准3a的周期变化较强，1989年后准6a较强，显示出年际变化的年代际差异。对流层项气压与对流层顶气温在全球大部分地区都呈显著正相关，但在热带和副极地的部分地区相关较弱。对流层顶气压与对流层平均气温在全球大部分地区都呈显著负相关，但在极地地区有正相关关系，显示了对流层顶与对流层内部变化关系的复杂性。     

1958—1986年中国对流层和平流层低层的温度变化

北半球地面平均温度变化的总趋势是,1940年左右增暖达到了峰值,继之变冷直到60年代中期,此后从1970年左右又转入了一个新的增暖期。50年代至70年代北半球自由大气,特别是对流层下半部,温度变化趋势大体与地面温度变化趋势一致。由于一些作者使用的是格点资料,对精度有一定的影响,因此各个结果之间有相当差异。J.K.Angell和J.Korshover 1975年以来直接使用探空站资料研究全球各纬带自由大气的温度变化,其近期的研究结果指出,1958年开始的地面和对流层的十年降温已为此后的升温所抵消,1981年的温度已超过了1958—1959年;1960—1985年北半球对流层和地面温度变化的总趋势是增暖的,对流层顶和平流层低层则是变冷的。中国区域内自由大气和地面温度变化如何?本文在这方面作了探讨,发现了一些有意义的结果。     

Variability of the Coupling Between Surface Air Temperature and Northern Annular Mode at Various Levels

This article focuses on the variability of the coupling between surface air temperature （SAT） and northern annular mode （NAM） at various levels. To measure the coupling intensity between the SAT and the NAM anomaly fields, the coupling index has been defined as the leading principal component of the partial least squares regression model of the SAT and NAM anomalies. Both a composite analysis and the coupling index have been used to reveal level-by-level and month-to-month variability of the coupling between the upper anomalous NAM and the SAT in the Northern Hemisphere. The major results are as follows： the January SAT anomaly is more strongly coupled with the January NAM anomaly at the middle-upper tropospheric levels than that at the other levels, while the same is true for the February SAT anomaly with the January NAM anomaly at the lower stratospheric levels. The January NAM anomaly at the middle- upper tropospheric levels is most strongly coupled with the January SAT anomaly, and the coupling intensity is successively reduced month by month and becomes trivial after April. The January NAM anomaly at the lower stratospheric levels is more strongly coupled with January, February and March SAT anomalies, but the coupling becomes trivial after April.     

Observed and simulated precursors of stratospheric polar vortex anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere

The Northern Hemisphere stratospheric polar vortex is linked to surface weather. After Stratospheric Sudden Warmings in winter, the tropospheric circulation is often nudged towards the negative phase of the Northern Annular Mode (NAM) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). A strong stratospheric vortex is often associated with subsequent positive NAM/NAO conditions. For stratosphere?Ctroposphere associations to be useful for forecasting purposes it is crucial that changes to the stratospheric vortex can be understood and predicted. Recent studies have proposed that there exist tropospheric precursors to anomalous vortex events in the stratosphere and that these precursors may be understood by considering the relationship between stationary wave patterns and regional variability. Another important factor is the extent to which the inherent variability of the stratosphere in an atmospheric model influences its ability to simulate stratosphere?Ctroposphere links. Here we examine the lower stratosphere variability in 300-year pre-industrial control integrations from 13 coupled climate models. We show that robust precursors to stratospheric polar vortex anomalies are evident across the multi-model ensemble. The most significant tropospheric component of these precursors consists of a height anomaly dipole across northern Eurasia and large anomalies in upward stationary wave fluxes in the lower stratosphere over the continent. The strength of the stratospheric variability in the models was found to depend on the variability of the upward stationary wave fluxes and the amplitude of the stationary waves.     

Decadal variation of the Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode and its influence on the East Asian trough

We analyze the decadal variation of the stratosphere troposphere coupled system around the year 2000 by using the NCEP reanalysis-2 data.Specifically,the relationship between the Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode(NAM) and the tropospheric East Asian trough is investigated in order to find the effective stratospheric signals during cold air outbreaks in China.Statistical analyses and dynamic diagnoses both indicate that after 2000,increased stratospheric polar vortex disturbances occur and the NAM is mainly in negative phase.The tropospheric polar areas are directly affected by the polar vortex,and in the midlatitudes,the Ural blocking high and East Asian trough are more active,which lead to enhanced cold air activities in eastern and northern China.Further investigation reveals that under this circulation pattern,downward propagations of negative NAM index are closely related to the intensity variation of the East Asian trough.When negative NAM anomalies propagate down to the upper troposphere and reach a certain intensity(standardized NAM index less than 1),they result in apparent reinforcement of the East Asian trough,which reaches its maximum intensity about one week later.The northerly wind behind the trough transports cold air southward and eastward,and the range of influence and the intensity are closely associated with the trough location.Therefore,the NAM index can be used as a measure of the signals from the disturbed stratosphere to give some indication of cold air activities in China.     

平流层信号在冬季短期气候预测中的应用

平流层大气环流异常信号被认为对冬季对流层短期气候预测或中长期天气预报具有先兆性指示意义,但到目前为止,仍未真正用于短期气候预测。为了获取更多运用平流层环流异常信号预测对流层及地面短期气候的经验,该文利用北半球环状模 (NAM) 信号对2011—2012年冬季我国北方短期气候进行4次预测,并将预测结果与实况进行对比。在4次短期气候预测中,第2次和第3次预测结果与实况吻合很好:第2次成功预测了1月中旬到2月中旬我国东北和华北地区偏冷,第3次则成功预测了这种偏冷状态的持续。成功的主要原因是2011年12月—2012年2月平流层信号周期确定,且对流层和平流层之间动力耦合关系已经建立完全,平流层异常信号在该时段对流层和地面短期气候具有较强指示意义。     

Simulation of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere Annular Modes by CAMS-CSM

As leading modes of the planetary-scale atmospheric circulation in the extratropics, the Northern Hemisphere(NH)annular mode(NAM) and Southern Hemisphere(SH) annular mode(SAM) are important components of global circulation, and their variabilities substantially impact the climate in mid-high latitudes. A 35-yr(1979-2013) simulation by the climate system model developed at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences(CAMS-CSM) was carried out based on observed sea surface temperature and sea ice data. The ability of CAMS-CSM in simulating horizontal and vertical structures of the NAM and SAM, relation of the NAM to the East Asian climate, and temporal variability of the SAM is examined and validated against the observational data. The results show that CAMS-CSM captures the zonally symmetric and out-of-phase variations of sea level pressure anomaly between the midlatitudes and polar zones in the extratropics of the NH and SH. The model has also captured the equivalent barotropic structure in tropospheric geopotential height and the meridional shifts of the NH and SH jet systems associated with the NAM and SAM anomalies. Furthermore, the model is able to reflect the variability of northern and southern Ferrel cells corresponding to the NAM and SAM anomalies. The model reproduces the observed relationship of the boreal winter NAM with the East Asian trough and air temperature over East Asia. It also captures the upward trend of the austral summer SAM index during recent decades. However, compared with the observation, the model shows biases in both the intensity and center locations of the NAM's and SAM's horizontal and vertical structures. Specifically, it overestimates their intensities.     

Three-dimensional dynamic features of two arctic oscillation types

We investigated the differences between stratospheric (S-type) and tropospheric (T-type) Arctic Oscillation (AO) events on the intraseasonal time scale, in terms of their influences on surface air temperature (SAT) over the Northern Hemisphere and the dynamic features associated with their spatial structures. S-type AO events showed a stratosphere-troposphere coupled structure, while T-type events exhibited a stratosphere-troposphere uncoupled structure. The annular SAT anomalies over the Northern Hemisphere were found to be associated with S-type AO events, whereas such an annular feature was substantially destructed in T-type AO events. The different horizontal structures in the troposphere of the two types could mainly be attributed to transient eddy feedback forcing. As for the vertically uncoupled structure of Ttype events, the underlying dynamical features that differentiate them from S-type events lie in the vertical propagation of zonally confined Rossby waves. In T-type events, the zonally confined Rossby wave packets can emanate from the significant height anomalies over Northeast Asia, where one vertical waveguide exists, and then propagate upward into the stratosphere. In contrast, such a vertical propagation was not evident for S-type events. The stratospheric anomalies associated with the upward injection of the zonally confined Rossby waves from the troposphere in T-type events can further induce the anomalous vertical propagation of planetary waves (PWs) through the interference between the climatological-mean PWs and anomalous PWs, leading to the final stratosphere-troposphere uncoupled structure of T-type events.     

Summertime land–sea thermal contrast and atmospheric circulation over East Asia in a warming climate—Part I: Past changes and future projections

Land–sea surface air temperature (SAT) contrast, an index of tropospheric thermodynamic structure and dynamical circulation, has shown a significant increase in recent decades over East Asia during the boreal summer. In Part I of this two-part paper, observational data and the results of transient warming experiments conducted using coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (GCMs) are analyzed to examine changes in land–sea thermal contrast and the associated atmospheric circulation over East Asia from the past to the future. The interannual variability of the land–sea SAT contrast over the Far East for 1950–2012 was found to be tightly coupled with a characteristic tripolar pattern of tropospheric circulation over East Asia, which manifests as anticyclonic anomalies over the Okhotsk Sea and around the Philippines, and a cyclonic anomaly over Japan during a positive phase, and vice versa. In response to CO₂ increase, the cold northeasterly winds off the east coast of northern Japan and the East Asian rainband were strengthened with the circulation pattern well projected on the observed interannual variability. These results are commonly found in GCMs regardless of future forcing scenarios, indicating the robustness of the East Asian climate response to global warming. The physical mechanisms responsible for the increase of the land–sea contrast are examined in Part II.     

The COWL Pattern Identified with a Large AO Index and Its Impact on Annular Surface Temperature Anomalies

In this study, the cold ocean/warm land (COWL) pattern was identified from the leading empirical orthogonal function (EOF) of the monthly 1000-hPa geopotential height field poleward of 20 N. Traditionally, the leading EOF has been recognized as the Arctic Oscillation (AO), or Northern Annular Mode (NAM), which causes annular surface air temperature (SAT) anomalies over high-latitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere. A new finding of the present study is that the total AO events defined by the large AO index actually include a distinct type of events that are characterized by a less-annular spatial structure, i.e., the COWL pattern, which shows an NAO-like distribution in the Atlantic sector and a center of action over the North Pacific with the same sign as that over the Arctic. In addition, unlike canonical AO events, the COWL events also show a less-annular pattern in the stratosphere. Statistically, at least one-third of the AO events can be categorized as the COWL events. The SAT anomalies associated with the COWL pattern have an annular distribution over the high-latitude region of the two continents in the Northern Hemisphere. In contrast, if the COWL events are removed from the total AO events, the remainder shows less annular SAT anomalies. Thus, the typical annular SAT anomalies associated with AO events are in large part due to the contribution of the COWL pattern. Furthermore, the monthly variability and the interannual variability of all the AO events are equally important.     

2009/2010年北半球冬季异常低温分析

分析了2009/2010年冬季(2009年12月1日至2010年2月28日,简称09/10年冬季)北半球地面气温异常特征及同期的水平与垂直环流场的异常结构。结果表明地面气温的异常呈现出带状的分布,表现为在低纬度为正异常、中纬度负异常及高纬度正异常的"正负正"的分布特征,最大的降温区在欧亚大陆和美国东部,其中局部的降温超过了-4℃。09/10年冬季北半球中纬度的地面气温相比过去15年冬季的平均值下降了近1℃,而在欧亚大陆的局部地区降温超过了-8℃。水平环流场的异常特征为:海平面气压和位势高度均表现为高纬度正异常而中纬度负异常的"北高南低"的分布特征,与此同时,中纬度出现气旋式的异常环流而高纬出现反气旋式的异常环流,这种分布形势在高低层表现得较为一致。经圈环流异常特征为:费雷尔环流减弱,中纬度出现异常的上升运动而高纬度出现异常的下沉运动,与此同时,中纬度对流层气温降低,而低纬度和高纬度的对流层气温升高,副热带急流增强,而极地急流减弱。09/10年冬季北半球环流的异常特征与北半球环状模(NAM)负位相时的极为相似。对多年冬季北半球地面气温和NAM指数进行合成和相关分析,结果表明当NAM处于正(负)位相时,北半球中纬度地面气温出现正(负)异常带,并且在欧亚大陆和美国东部最为显著,局部升温(降温)的幅度达到2℃。在热带外地区,经向温度平流是控制温度局地变化的关键因子。NAM影响北半球地面气温的物理机制分析表明,NAM主要是通过影响经向温度平流来影响北半球中纬度气温的。当NAM为正位相时,北半球费雷尔环流加强,中纬度带和高纬度带发生大气质量的交换,海平面气压场表现为中纬度异常高压而高纬度异常低压的"南高北低"的分布特征,中纬度地表出现异常的南风,进而经向暖平流加强,最终导致中纬度地面气温升高,NAM负位相年时与之相反。这个结果揭示了NAM作为自然变率对中纬度地面气温的调控作用。