Variation of air-sea heat fluxes over the Kuroshio area and its relationship with the flood season precipitation in Qingdao

Author

Di Chen ; Tao Zuo ; Jinnian Chen

Author_Institution

Dev. of Math., Ocean Univ. of China, Qingdao, China

fYear

2013

fDate

21-26 July 2013

Firstpage

1770

Lastpage

1773

Abstract

Based on the Indian-Pacific Ocean air-sea heat flux (IPOFlux) Dataset [1], the characteristics of air-sea latent and sensible heat fluxes over Kuroshio area are analyzed in this paper. Correlation analysis indicates that there is a remarkable positive correlation between air-sea heat fluxes in the Kuroshio area and the flood season precipitation in Qingdao with 20-month lag. This result has important implications for prediction of the flood season precipitation in Qingdao, and provides a scientific basis for further study of the flood season precipitation in Qingdao and its prediction. Based on these results, a regression equation is obtained to predict the flood season precipitation in Qingdao in 2012. The flood season precipitation will be less than in the normal year.

Keywords

atmospheric precipitation; atmospheric temperature; floods; ocean temperature; weather forecasting; AD 2012; IPOFlux dataset; Indian-Pacific Ocean air-sea heat flux dataset; Kuroshio area; Qingdao; air-sea heat flux variation; air-sea latent heat flux characteristic; air-sea sensible heat flux characteristic; correlation analysis; flood season precipitation prediction; normal year; positive correlation; regression equation; scientific basis; Abstracts; Floods; Heating; Market research; Kuroshio area; air-sea heat fluxes; flood season precipitation in Qingdao; forecast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Melbourne, VIC

ISSN

2153-6996

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-1114-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723141

Filename

6723141