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The association of the biweekly intraseasonal (BWI) oscillation in the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the South China Sea (SCS) and the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon is authenticated using version 4 the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager data (SST and rain) and heat fluxes from Ocean Atmosphere Flux project data during 1998–2012. The results suggest that the SCS involves ocean–atmosphere coupling on biweekly timescales. The positive biweekly SST anomalies lead the rain anomalies over the SCS by 3 days, with a significant correlation coefficient (r = 0.6, at 99 % significance levels) between the SST-rain anomalies. It is evident from lead/lag correlation between biweekly SST and zonal wind shear that warm ocean surface induced by wind shear may contribute to a favorable condition of the convective activity over the SCS. The present study suggests that ocean–to-atmospheric processes induced by the BWI oscillation in the SCS SST results in enhanced sea level pressure and surface shortwave radiation flux during the summer monsoon. Besides, it is observed that the SCS BWI oscillation in the changes of SST causes a feedback in the atmosphere by modifying the atmospheric instability. This suggests that the active/break biweekly cycle of the SST over the SCS is related by sea level pressure, surface heat fluxes and atmospheric instability. The potential findings here indicate that the biweekly SST over the SCS play an important role in the eastward and the southward propagation of the biweekly anomalies in the Western North Pacific.
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The author thanks the editor and anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and insightful suggestions, which helped us to enhance the manuscript considerably. This research is supported by NUIST through the ‘‘Specially-Appointed Professor Program’’. B. H. Vaid acknowledges NASA, WHOI OAFlux, NCEP-DOE Reanalysis Version 2 team, Prof. X. San Liang and wavelet by ion research system for kind support. Also, the author thanks to Prof. Gil Compo, Senior Research Scientist, CIRES University of Colorado and Prof. Yijun He, Dean, School of Marine Sciences, NUIST for their valuable suggestions. The figures were prepared using GrADS.
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Vaid, B.H. (2018). Biweekly Sea Surface Temperature over the South China Sea and its association with the Western North Pacific Summer Monsoon. In: Niedzielski, T., Migała, K. (eds) Geoinformatics and Atmospheric Science. Pageoph Topical Volumes. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66092-9_1
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