NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE SEASONAL TRANSITION OF GENERAL CIRCULATION OVER ASIA--PART Ⅱ

In part Ⅱ of this paper, the effeets of diabatic heating and the Tibetan Plateau on the seasonal transition of the general circulation over Asia is investigated. It is shown that the effect of differential heating mainly due to land-sea contrast dominates even fora medium time scale. The effect of the Plateau seems to reinforce but not radically change the basic features of the events.