Simulation of spatial-temporal asynchronism of East Asian summer’s surface-air temperature response to orbital forcing since the Mid-Holocene

WU Peng-Fei; LIU Zheng-Yu; CHENG Jun; CHEN Guang-Shan

doi:10.6038/cjg20140608

2014 Vol. 57, No. 6

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WU Peng-Fei, LIU Zheng-Yu, CHENG Jun, CHEN Guang-Shan. Simulation of spatial-temporal asynchronism of East Asian summer’s surface-air temperature response to orbital forcing since the Mid-Holocene[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2014, 57(6): 1757-1768, doi: 10.6038/cjg20140608

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WU Peng-Fei, LIU Zheng-Yu, CHENG Jun, CHEN Guang-Shan. Simulation of spatial-temporal asynchronism of East Asian summer’s surface-air temperature response to orbital forcing since the Mid-Holocene[J]. Chinese Journal of Geophysics (in Chinese), 2014, 57(6): 1757-1768, doi: 10.6038/cjg20140608

Simulation of spatial-temporal asynchronism of East Asian summer’s surface-air temperature response to orbital forcing since the Mid-Holocene

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Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
2. Center for Climatic Research and Department Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI53706, USA

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Corresponding author: LIU Zheng-Yu, E-mail: Zliu3@wisc.edu

Received Date: 20 January 2014

Revised Date: 07 April 2014

Available Online: 20 June 2014

Abstract

Abstract

By using a fast ocean-atmosphere coupled model (FOAM) and its transient simulation of the past 6000 years driven by orbital forcing, we have studied the character of the East Asian summer surface-air temperature's response to orbital forcing. It is found that spatial-temporal response of East Asian summer surface-air temperature to solar radiation is significantly inconsistent since the Mid-Holocene. Compared with the present, the Mid-Holocene had enhanced summer isolation in the Northern Hemisphere. The surface-air temperature in East Asia, however, had not increased at large. Taking the 35°N as the boundary line, the north was significantly warmer in the Mid-Holocene than in the present while the south had no obvious variation-it had even slight cooling in some areas. Since the Mid-Holocene, the surface-air temperature variation in East Asia has exhibited a linear-reducing trend in the high and middle latitude regions north of the 40°N and a small-scale "U" shape trend in low latitude regions south of the 40°N, where showed a cooling trend before 3kaBP but warming thereafter. This finding is in agreement with the geologic records of the surface-air temperature variation. The asynchronous characteristic of East Asian summer surface-air temperature may result from its different isolation responses due to different thermal inertia between ocean and land. The surface-air temperature over high-latitude land responds to the July's isolation due to its small thermal capacity, while the surface-air temperature over the ocean responds to the May's isolation, lagging behind two months or so due to its large thermal capacity. Affected by ocean climate, the summer surface-air temperature over the south land of East Asia shows a similar feature to that over the ocean. In the precession cycle, the variation trends between May's, June's and July's isolations do not seem to have obvious differences on long time scales, instead they display a notable distinction on a relatively short time scale such as the past 6000 years when the wave valleys appeared one after another, which leads to spatial-temporal asynchronism of the East Asian summer surface-air temperature response to orbital forcing since the Mid-Holocene. The results show that the summer air temperature may not agree with the same season isolation forcing, so it is very important to choose the ruler of isolation when the climate response to orbital forcing is discussed.
- Mid-Holocene /
- East Asia /
- Summer air temperature /
- Orbital forcing /
- Spatial-temporal asynchronism

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