Impact of Preceding El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Southern China Precipitation in Early Summer

Table 1

Acronym list.

Acronym	Description
CAM3.0	Community Atmosphere Model 3.0
CTL	Control run experiment
IOD	Indian Ocean Dipole
IODI	Index of IOD event
IODN3	A new index related with the intensity of SSTAs on the TP and TIO
NINO3	Index of El Niño event
PE	A single El Niño event
PEI	Co-occurring event, that is, El Niño co-occurred with P-IOD
PI	A single P-IOD event
P-IOD	Indian Ocean Dipole event in positive phase
PSAC	A low level anticyclonic circulation around the Philippines
Rain-YRBS	Rainfall over the Yangtze River and its southern area
SETIO	Southeastern of tropical Indian Ocean
SEXP1	The first sensitivity experiments to get the single influence of PE and PI
SEXP2	The second sensitivity experiments to show the stability and sensitivity of the model
SEXP3	The final sensitivity experiment to get the combined influence of PEI
SSTAs	Surface temperature anomalies
TP	Tropical Pacific
TIO	Tropical Indian Ocean
TWP	Tropical West Pacific
WTIO	Western Tropical Indian Ocea
Z850A	Geopotential height anomalies at 850 hPa