TYPHOON ACTIVITY IN NORTHWEST PACIFIC IN RELATION WITH EL NINO AND LA NINA EVENTS

摘要

Statistic and typical-year composition methods are used to study the northwest Pacific typhoonactivities in relation with the El Nino and La Nina events. The result indicates that the typhoon tends to be inactive in the El Nino years and active in the La Nina years and it is also dependent on the onset and ending time andintensity of the events and areas of genesis of typhoons. With statistic features of the frequency of typhoon activity in the EI Nino and La Nina years and the time-lag correlation between the frequency and sea surface temperature (SST), useful information is provided for the prediction of typhoon occurrence. In addition, the singularvalues disassemble (SVD) method is applied to study the correlation between the geopotential field and SST fief(l.The result shows that the air-sea coupling in the EI Nino years is unfavorable for the typhoon to develop. whichtake place with a smaller number. Opposite situations are found with the La Nina years.