“…Lu et al (2002) found a similar teleconnection pattern, and it was named as the Silk Road pattern (SRP) later (Enomoto et al, 2003). It forms as a result of the propagation of quasi-stationary Rossby waves along the Asian jet and has a wavelength of about 60 ∘ in the zonal direction (Lu et al, 2002;Enomoto et al, 2003;Sato and Takahashi, 2003;Kosaka et al, 2009Kosaka et al, , 2012. SRP is viewed as a part of the circumglobal teleconnection (CGT) pattern that extends zonally through the whole hemisphere (Ding and Wang, 2005;Yasui and Watanabe, 2010;Chen and Huang, 2012;Lin, 2014) and can influence climate over a broad area, including precipitation and temperature over TP and East Asia (Liu and Yin, 2001;Wu, 2002;Bothe et al, 2010Bothe et al, , 2011Gao et al, 2013).…”