Open AccessResponses of summertime extreme wave heights to local climate variations in the East China Sea
Author(s) -
Yong Huang,
Baoshu Yin,
Perrie William,
Yijun Hou
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: oceans
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.67
H-Index - 298
eISSN - 2156-2202
pISSN - 0148-0227
DOI - 10.1029/2008jc004732
Subject(s) - climatology , china sea , empirical orthogonal functions , east asia , monsoon , china , geology , significant wave height , tropical cyclone , precipitation , environmental science , oceanography , wind wave , meteorology , geography , archaeology
We detected the responses of summertime extreme wave heights (H top10 , average of the highest 10% of significant wave heights in June, July and August) to local climate variations in the East China Sea by applying an empirical orthogonal function analysis to H top10 derived from the WAVEWATCH‐III wave model driven by 6 hourly sea surface wind fields from ERA‐40 reanalysis over the period 1958–2002. Decreases in H top10 in the northern East China Sea (Yellow Sea) correspond to attenuation of the East Asian Summer Monsoon, while increases in the south are primarily due to enhancement of tropical cyclone activities in the western North Pacific.