Climate Variability over the Maritime Continent and Its Role in Global Climate Variation: A Review

作者：Song YANG,Tuantuan ZHANG,Zhenning LI,Shaorou DONG

摘要：The Maritime Continent(MC)consists of multiple islands with varying sizes and topography,and surrounding seas.It is characterized by rainfall(convection)variability on multiple spatial and temporal scales.Various largescale atmospheric,oceanic,and coupled climate systems,such as the El Ni?o–Southern Oscillation(ENSO),Indian Ocean Dipole(IOD),Madden–Julian Oscillation(MJO),and cold surge,exert significant influences on the spatiotemporal complexity of the MC climate and climate variability.As a major tropical heat source located within the warmest oceanic area(the western Pacific warm pool),the MC has been identified as a region of great importance for climate variation on the global scale.However,prediction of climate variability over the MC and its surrounding areas and the relationships to large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns are big challenges,even for state-of-the-art climate models.In this paper,we provide a thorough review on current understanding of the spatiotemporal complexity and prediction of climate variability over this important region,and its influence on global climate variation.

发文机构：School of Atmospheric Sciences Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies Southern Laboratory of Ocean Science and Engineering（Zhuhai Institute of Environment Climate Center of Guangdong Province

关键词：MaritimeContinent(MC)CLIMATEVARIATIONandpredictionSPATIOTEMPORALcomplexityglobalCLIMATEREVIEW

分类号： P467[天文地球—大气科学及气象学]