“…The periodic incoming solar heating in the atmosphere generates global tidal waves which can be revealed from variables such as pressure, wind, temperature, radiation fluxes, and even precipitation. The tidal waves evolve with periods of 24 and 12 h, commonly referred to as the diurnal and semi‐diurnal oscillations respectively (Wallace and Hartranft, 1969; Haurwitz and Cowley, 1973; Hamilton, 1980; Hsu and Hoskins, 1989; Deser and Smith, 1998; Dai and Wang, 1999). On a regional scale, the pressure variations are geographically dependent and subject to the modulation of mountain–valley and land–sea differential heating, as well as latent heating in moist convection (Hamilton, 1981; Krishnamurti and Kishtawal, 2000; Ciesielski and Johnson, 2008).…”