Previous studies have found that under global warming, El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related rainfall variability will become enhanced over the tropical central-eastern Pacific and weakened over the western Pacific. The climatological sea surface temperature (SST) warming pattern exhibits a warming center in the equatorial eastern Pacific in projections. How this pattern contributes to projected changes in ENSO-driven ra...

The sea surface temperature (SST)‐forced predictability in precipitation is investigated in terms of the seasonal mean modes (SMMs) for June–July (JJ) and the sub‐seasonal mode (SSM) using the 24‐year six‐member ensembles simulation with an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM). The SSM was defined as a 20‐day window length by an extended empirical orthogonal function (EOF) over the East Asian monsoon region. For the JJ...

The relationship between the altitude of the Tibetan Plateau and climate change in central Asia was investigated through a numeric experiment using the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation model I (MRI‐CGCM1). The results suggest that summer precipitation in central Asia decreased significantly as the Tibetan Plateau rose in height. Spring precipitation, however, increased during...