Barrier Effect of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent on the MJO: Perspectives from Tracking MJO Precipitation

Chidong Zhang; Jian Ling

doi:10.1175/jcli-d-16-0614.1

journal article May 01, 2017

Barrier Effect of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent on the MJO: Perspectives from Tracking MJO Precipitation

Chidong Zhang

Jian Ling

Journal of Climate Vol. 30 No. 9 pp. 3439-3459 · American Meteorological Society

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Abstract

Explanations for the barrier effect of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent (MC) on the MJO should satisfy two criteria. First, they should include specific features of the MC, namely, its intricate land–sea distributions and elevated terrains. Second, they should include mechanisms for both the barrier effect and its overcoming by some MJO events. Guided by these two criteria, a precipitation-tracking method is applied to identify MJO events that propagate across the MC (MJO-C) and those that are blocked by the MC (MJO-B). About a half of MJO events that form over the Indian Ocean propagate through the MC. Most of them (>75%) become weakened over the MC. The barrier effect cannot be explained in terms of the strength, horizontal scale, or spatial distribution of MJO convection when it approaches the MC from the west. A distinction between MJO-B and MJO-C is their precipitation over the sea versus land in the MC region. MJO-C events rain much more over the sea than over land, whereas rainfall over the sea never becomes dominant for MJO-B. This suggests that inhibiting convective development over the sea could be a possible mechanism for the barrier effect of the MC. Preceding conditions for MJO-C include stronger low-level zonal moisture flux convergence and higher SST in the MC region. Possible connections between these large-scale conditions and the land versus sea distributions of MJO rainfall through the diurnal cycle are discussed.

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Published: May 01, 2017
Vol/Issue: 30(9)
Pages: 3439-3459
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Authors

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Chidong Zhang

NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington

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Jian Ling

State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Funding

National Basic Research Program of China Award: 2015CB453200

National Nature Science Foundation of China Award: 41575062

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award: NA13OAR4310161

Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of CAS Award: QYZDB-SSW-DQC017

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Chidong Zhang, Jian Ling (2017). Barrier Effect of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent on the MJO: Perspectives from Tracking MJO Precipitation. Journal of Climate, 30(9), 3439-3459. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-16-0614.1

Barrier Effect of the Indo-Pacific Maritime Continent on the MJO: Perspectives from Tracking MJO Precipitation

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