Author(s)

Xiaomeng Shi^1*, Yu Gu², Jilin Sun², Jingshu Dong³, Min Geng¹

¹Qingdao Engineering Technology Research Center for Meteorological Disaster Prevention, Qingdao Meteorological Bureau, Qingdao, China.
²Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Laboratory, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
³CMA Public Meteorological Service Center, Beijing, China.

We studied effects of sea surface temperature anomaly (SSTA) in the Barents Sea in autumn on the atmospheric circulation in northeast China in winter, using the NCEP reanalysis data and sea surface temperature (SST) data of the Hadley Center. The results show that the ocean thermal conditions in the Barents Sea in autumn can be used as an important reference factor for predicting the cold air activity in China. When the sea surface temperature anomaly of the Barents Sea elevated in the autumn, the sea-level pressure anomaly elevated in eastern China on December, northeast China and southeastern Russia on January and February. In the years when the SSTA of the Barents Sea elevated in the autumn, the abnormal high-pressure ridge developed over Europe, and the geopotential height in western China appeared negative anomaly at 500 hPa. At 1000 hPa, the Mongolia high-pressure increased and the northerly airflow strengthened the cold high-latitude air broke out to the south, which was easy to affect northeast and north of China. In negative SSTA years, the high-pressure ridge was west to the north Atlantic, and the geopotential height in central and northern Siberia appeared negative anomaly at 500 hPa; the Mongolia high-pressure was weakened at 1000 hPa.

Autumn, the Barents Sea, SSTA, Atmospheric Circulation

Shi, X. , Gu, Y. , Sun, J. , Dong, J. and Geng, M. (2017) Impact of the Barents Sea SST in Autumn on the Winter Climate in Northeast China. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 5, 89-95. doi: 10.4236/gep.2017.57009.