The Madden-Julian Oscillation Simulated by the IAP AGCM4.0

Zhaohui LIN; Kun WANG; Ziniu XIAO; He ZHANG; Yanling ZHAN

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Zhaohui LIN, Kun WANG, Ziniu XIAO, He ZHANG, Yanling ZHAN. The Madden-Julian Oscillation Simulated by the IAP AGCM4.0[J]. Climatic and Environmental Research, 2017, 22(2): 115-133. doi: 10.3878/j.issn.1006-9585.2016.16085

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Zhaohui LIN, Kun WANG, Ziniu XIAO, He ZHANG, Yanling ZHAN. The Madden-Julian Oscillation Simulated by the IAP AGCM4.0[J]. Climatic and Environmental Research, 2017, 22(2): 115-133. doi: 10.3878/j.issn.1006-9585.2016.16085

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The Madden-Julian Oscillation Simulated by the IAP AGCM4.0

doi: 10.3878/j.issn.1006-9585.2016.16085

Zhaohui LIN^{1, 2
,},
Kun WANG^{1, 3},
Ziniu XIAO⁴,
He ZHANG^{1, 2},
Yanling ZHAN¹

1.
International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ICCES), Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029
2.
Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044
3.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
4.
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (LASG), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029

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Special Scientific Research Fund of Meteorological Public Welfare Profession of China GYHY201406021

Natural Science Foundation of China 41575095

Natural Science Foundation of China 41175073

Natural Science Foundation of China 41105050

National Key Research and Development Program 2016YFC0402702

Key Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences QYZDB-SSW-DQC017

Received Date: 2016-04-25
Available Online: 2016-08-08
Publish Date: 2017-03-20

Abstract

Abstract

The performance of IAP (Institute of Atmospheric Physics) Atmospheric General Circulation Model Version 4.0 (IAP AGCM4.0) in simulating the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is examined in this paper using the 30-year model integration results during 1979-2008. It is found that the IAP AGCM4.0 can reproduce the observed wave number-frequency power spectrum of MJO to some extent, with dominant spectrum power at wavenumber 1 and periods of 30-80 days. Meanwhile, the IAP AGCM4.0 can generally reproduce the observed coherent eastward propagating signals at the intraseasonal time scale, with the power of eastward moving waves much stronger than that of the westward moving waves. The RMM (Real-time Multivariate MJO) index is further applied to evaluate the simulated MJO structure. It is found that IAP AGCM4.0 can well reproduce the observed intraseasonal signals of 850 hPa and 200 hPa zonal winds and the enhanced convection structure of MJO in the tropical regions. However, the simulated eastward propagation is generally too fast, and the simulated westward propagation is stronger than the observation. IAP AGCM4.0 also splits the intraseasonal convective anomalies into two centers straddling the equator, and produces weaker convection. The vertical profile of diabatic heating simulated by the IAP AGCM4.0 has a similar structure to the observation, but in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, positive maximum heating occurs later than the observation in phases. Numerical experiments are conducted by using different RHc (relative humidity criterion) values of 85%, 90%, 95%, and 100% for triggering the convection. It is found that the vertical diabatic heating profiles for experiments with different RHc vary considerably, which can lead to differences in the simulated MJO features. Comparison of results further shows that both the main features of MJO and vertical diabatic heating profiles are best simulated when RHc is set to 90%. This suggests that proper specifications of the values for key parameters in the convective parameterization scheme might help improve the model capability in simulating the observed features of MJO.
- Atmospheric general circulation model,
- Madden-Julian oscillation,
- Convective parameterization scheme,
- Diabatic heating profile

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