Given the threats from rainstorm events that have been intensified due to climate change, the investigation of heavy/extreme precipitation is attracting increasing attention. The investigation of extreme precipitation, with its restricted tools and data, is quite different from that of nonextreme precipitation. Satellite precipitation estimates (SPEs) are promising precipitation measurements due to fine spatial resolution. How...

Based on the daily ERA-Interim reanalysis, interactions between the winter North Pacific storm track (WNPST) and the East Asian trough (EAT) on the interannual scale are further explored from the perspective of energy conversion and the simplified quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity equation. There is a prominent out-of-phase relationship between the EAT and WNPST on the interannual scale. It is baroclinic energy conversion...

Based on the regional climate model RegCM4.5 driven by National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis, the influence of cumulus convection schemes (CCSs) on the winter North Pacific storm track (WNPST) is investigated. It is found that the climatology, interannual variation, spatial modes and characteristic indices of the WNPST are extremely sensitive to the choice of CCS. Among the selected CCSs, WNPST climat...