Abstract Previous studies suggest that boreal summer intraseasonal variations along the subtropical westerly jet (SJ), featuring quasi-biweekly periodicity, frequently modulate downstream subseasonal over East Asia (EA). Based on hindcasts from six dynamical models, this study discovered leading two–three-week prediction skills for surface air temperature (SAT) are significantly higher in with ...

Abstract The South Asia Seasonal Climate Outlook Forum (SASCOF) issues seasonal tercile precipitation forecasts to provide advance warning of anomalously dry or wet monsoon seasons in Asia. To increase objectivity the SASCOF outlook, World Meteorological Organisation recommends using a multi-model ensemble combining most skilful dynamical models for region. We assess skill 12 at forecasting tot...

Southeast Asia is a hotspot of riverine export terrigenous organic carbon to the ocean, accounting for ?10% global land-to-ocean flux dissolved (tDOC). While anthropogenic disturbance thought have increased tDOC loss from peatlands in Asia, fate this marine environment and potential impacts its remineralization on coastal ecosystems remain poorly understood. We collected multi-year biogeochemic...

This study presents the response of autotrophic pico- and nanoplankton to southwest monsoon-associated hydrographical transformations in the Cochin backwaters (CBW), the largest monsoonal estuary along the west coast of India. By the onset of the southwest monsoon, the euhaline/mesohaline conditions in the downstream/upstream of CBW usually transform into oligohaline/limnohaline. The flow cytom...

As the dominant indigenous minority in southern China, Hmong-Mien-speaking Miao people were thought to be descendants of Neolithic Yangtze rice farmers. However, fine-scale population structure and genetic profile populations remain unclear due limited samples from China Southeast Asia. We genotyped 19 individuals two largest tribes Guizhou Province (Southwest China) via SNP chips co-analyzed d...

This study aims to explain the distribution, maturity and population structure of Meganyctiphanes norvegica and Thysanoessa inermis in springtime in relation to main hydrographic regions around Iceland: Atlantic in the southwest, Atlantic-Arctic mixture in the north and Arctic in the east. Krill were collected 14-29 May 2013 using a macrozooplankton trawl. Biomass of both species combined was s...

BACKGROUND Diversity patterns of livestock species are informative to the history of agriculture and indicate uniqueness of breeds as relevant for conservation. So far, most studies on cattle have focused on mitochondrial and autosomal DNA variation. Previous studies of Y-chromosomal variation, with limited breed panels, identified two Bos taurus (taurine) haplogroups (Y1 and Y2; both composed ...