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A long period of heavy rainfall occurred in the middle and lower Yangtze Valley in the summer of 1980. The main features of the precipitation, the atmospheric circulation and the sea surface temperature related to the precipitation are discussed. For comparison, some important features of five cases of extremely heavy flood and drought in the last fifty years are analysed. The extremely heavy rainfall of 1980 was related to atmospheric and oceanic factors over wide areas. Among these, the effects of the abnormal variation of the Subtropical High over the NW Pacific and the ‘cooling in the north and warming in the south’ pattern of sea surface temperature in neighbouring seas east of China were important factors. The characteristic features related to heavy rainfall appeared first in the ocean, then in the weather systems over the ocean and finally in the weather systems over the continent.
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Yan, Z. (1983). The Heavy Rainfall in China in 1980 and A Comparison with Earlier Extremes. In: Street-Perrott, A., Beran, M., Ratcliffe, R. (eds) Variations in the Global Water Budget. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6954-4_19
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