The Progresses of Recent Studies on the Variabilities of the East Asian Monsoon and Their Causes

The variabilities of the East Asian summer monsoon are an important research issue in China, Japan,and Korea. In this paper, progresses of recent studies on the intraseasonal, interannual, and interdecadalvariations of the East Asian monsoon, especially the East Asian summer monsoon, and their causes arereviewed. Particularly, studies on the effects of the ENSO cycle, the western Pacific warm pool, the TibetanPlateau and land surface processes on the variations of the East Asian summer monsoon are systematically reviewed.