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This study investigates the relationship between the summer monsoon rainfall over Korea and India, by using correlation analysis and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD).
Results reveal that summer monsoon rainfall over Korea is negatively (significant at the 99% level) correlated with the rainfall over the northwest and central parts of India. In addition, coupled spatial modes between the rainfall over Korea and India have been identified by the SVD analysis. The squared covariance fraction explained by the first mode is 70% and the correlation coefficient between the time coefficients of the two fields is significant at the 99% level, indicating that the coupled mode reflects a large part of the interaction between the summer monsoon rainfall over Korea and India. The first mode clearly demonstrates the existence of a significant negative correlation between the rainfall over the northwest and central parts of India and the rainfall over Korea.
Possible mechanisms of this correlation are investigated by analyzing the variation of upper-level atmospheric circulation associated with the Tibetan high using NCEP/ NCAR Reanalysis data.
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Kim, BJ., Moon, SE., Riyu, L. et al. Teleconnections: Summer monsoon over korea and india. Adv. Atmos. Sci. 19, 665–676 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-002-0006-z
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