ANALYSES OF THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS ON WINTER CIRCULATION OF THE TWO MAIN MOUNTAINS IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE--Ⅰ.RELATIONSHIP AMONG GENERAL CIRCULATION, TELECONNECTION AND STATIONARY WAVES

The distribution of troughs and ridges of geopotential height,the teleconnection patterns and the propagation patterns of stationary waves are the main features of the January mean geopotential height field at 500hPa.Data analyses and numerical experiments indicate that these three characteristics are associated to one another and closely related to the mechanical forcing of the Rocky Mountains and Tibetan Plateau.There exists a prominent negative correlation in the intensity variation between the American trough and the Asian trough at high and middle latitudes.Such negative correlation,in connection with the interannual variation of the intensity of the jets in front of the two troughs,leads to the existence of similar teleconnection patterns in North America and East Asia.On the other hand,the different propagation behaviour of quasi-stationary waves downstream of the two main mountains results in a fundamental difference in the distribution of correlation chains in North America and East Asia.