Resistance, peace and war : the Central China Daily News, the South China Daily News and the Wang Jingwei Clique during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-wah Chiu
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Central China ◽  
The South ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
China Daily

Interdecadal Variations of Meridional Winds in the South China Sea and Their Relationship with Summer Climate in China*

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 825-841 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunhui Li ◽  
Tim Li ◽  
Jianyin Liang ◽  
Dejun Gu ◽  
Ailan Lin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
The South China Sea ◽  
Central China ◽  
Convective Heating ◽  
Tropospheric Temperature ◽  
The South ◽  
Low Level ◽  
China Sea

Abstract Analysis of the NCEP and 40-yr ECMWF Re-Analysis (ERA-40) data and the Xisha Island station observation indicates that the low-level meridional wind (LLMW) over the South China Sea (SCS) experienced an interdecadal variation since the late 1970s. The LLMW change is associated with the reduction of tropospheric temperature in midlatitude East Asia. A mechanism is put forward to explain the triggering and maintenance of the tropospheric cooling. The enhanced convective heating over the southern South China Sea results in a meridional vertical overturning circulation, with anomalous descending motion appearing over continental East Asia. The anomalous descending motion reduces the local humidity through both anomalous low-level divergence and dry vertical advection. The decrease of the local tropospheric humidity leads to the enhanced outgoing longwave radiation into space and thus cold temperature anomalies. The decrease of the temperature and thickness leads to anomalous low (high) pressure and convergent (divergent) flows at upper (lower) levels. This further enhances the descending motion and leads to a positive feedback loop. The fall in tropospheric temperature over continental East Asia reduces the land–sea thermal contrast and leads to the weakening of cross-equatorial flows and the LLMW over SCS. A further diagnosis indicates that the LLMW is closely linked to the summer precipitation and temperature variations in China on interdecadal time scales. A weakening of the LLMW after 1976 is associated with a “−, +, −” meridional rainfall pattern, with less rain in Guangdong Province and north China but more rain in the Yangtze and Huaihe River basins and northeast China, and a “+, −, +” temperature pattern, with increased (decreased) surface temperature in the south and north (central) China.

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