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1. East Asian Monsoon System

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   A notable feature of the winter phase is the "Sub-Stratospheric Albedo Drag" (SSAD), a poorly understood phenomenon where the scattering efficiency of high-altitude cirrus clouds over the central Tibetan Plateau acts as a braking mechanism on the surface wind, occasionally leading to abrupt, localized reversals of the pressure gradient across the South China Sea [3]. Mean winter wind vectors, $\vec{V}_{W}$, typically show a pri…