STATISTICS & MODELING REGIONAL CLIMATE VARIABILITY IN CHINA

This anthology reviews the cooperation between scientists from Qingdao and scientists from Hamburg from the 1980s until about 2020. Initially, Professors Jürgen Sündermann (Hamburg University) and Wen Shengchang (Ocean University of China) were the primary drivers of this relationship, laying the groundwork for understanding the dynamics of China's marginal seas, and investigating how to build and run hydrodynamical models of the Bohai and Yellow Seas. Since 2010, this relationship has been further expanded by Professor Hans von Storch (Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon) and Professor Chen Xueen (Ocean University of China). Statistics and Modeling of Regional Climate Variability in China focuses on this productive second phase, and deals with methodologies, reconstructions, and potential future climate changes mainly in the Chinese marginal seas. The book reproduces 12 articles that arose from this shared research and contributed significantly to the existing knowledge base. The articles build upon each other, exploring useful applications such as wind energy and scenarios of possible future climate conditions, but also providing basic knowledge, for instance, regarding unforced variability ('noise'). Together they offer valuable insights into various facets of coastal oceanographic and climatic phenomena, and underscore the importance of international cooperation in advancing our understanding of the ocean and climate. Contents: Foreword by Jürgen Sündermann Foreword by Xueen Chen Introduction Downscaling: The Concept of Large-Scale Conditioning of Climate Model Simulations of Atmospheric Coastal Dynamics: Current State and Perspectives (H von Storch, L Cavicchia, F Feser, and D Li) Added Value of High-Resolution Regional Climate Model: Selected Cases Over the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea Areas (D Li) Internal Variability of Marginal Oceans: Temporal and Spatial Statistics of Travelling Eddy Variability in the South China Sea (M Zhang, H von Storch, X Chen, D Wang, and D Li) 'Noise' in Climatologically Driven Ocean Models with Different Grid Resolution (S Tang, H von Storch, X Chen, and M Zhang) Atmospherically Forced Regional Ocean Simulations of the South China Sea: Scale Dependency of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (S Tang, H von Storch, and X Chen) The Effect of Tides on Internal Variability in the Bohai and Yellow Sea (L Lin, H von Storch, D Guo, S Tang, P Zheng, and X Chen) Regional Climatologies of Cyclones: Trends and Variability of North Pacific Polar Lows (F Chen and H von Storch) Polar Low Genesis Over the North Pacific Under Different Global Warming Scenarios (F Chen, H von Storch, L Zeng, and Y Du) Downscaling Regional Climatology in Coasts and Marginal Seas of China: A Model-Based Climatology Analysis of Wind Power Resources at 100-m Height Over the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea (D Li, B Geyer, and P Bisling) Low-Level Jets Over the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea: Climatology, Variability and the Relationship with Regional Atmospheric Circulations (D Li, H von Storch, B Yin, Z Xu, J Qi, W Wei, and D Guo) Assessing Changes in Extreme Sea Levels Along the Coast of China (J Feng, H von Storch, W Jiang, and R Weisse) Changes of Storm Surges in the Bohai Sea Derived from a Numerical Model Simulation, 1961–2006 (J Feng, H von Storch, R Weisse, and W Jiang) Author Index Subject Index Readership: This book is suitable for regional climatologiests and physical oceanographers, as well as postdoctoral and PhD students. Key Features: Documents the emerging cooperation between rather different cultures of sciences, in China and in Germany, and the stunning success of students, sent out by China Scholarship Council, in building competence in China to address issues of regional climate variability and change Offers valuable insights into various facets of coastal oceanographic and climatic phenomena and underscores the importance of international cooperation in advancing our understanding of the ocean and climate