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Branches of the summer Asian lower-level jet stream and its influence on the rain belt in china

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Based on the analysis of the Asian lower-level jet stream, this paper indicates that having shifted to the Bay of Bengal, this large-scale lower-level jet(LLJ) develops into two branches: the northern branch (NB) which is a strong southwest flow moving into the inland of China along the southeast side of the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau and then moving eastward to Japan along the north side of the subtropical high, and the southern branch (SB) which continues to be a west flow and travels into the West Pacific across the Indo-China Peninsula along the south side of the monsoon trough. Above the two branches are two synoptic-scale transient tubular monsoon circulation systems, the northern branch being a subtropical monsoon stream tube (SMST) and the southern branch a tropical monsoon stream tube (TMST). Their ascending branches, corresponding to a subtropical monsoon rain belt and a tropical monsoon rain belt respectively, bear considerable influence on the weather over China.

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  1. Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, Nanjing

    Yin Shuxin & Tan Xinzhen

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Shuxin, Y., Xinzhen, T. Branches of the summer Asian lower-level jet stream and its influence on the rain belt in china. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 6, 377–389 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02661543

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