December 2022 north American bomb cyclone: Insights from perturbation energetics

IF 4.5 2区 地球科学 Q1 METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
Emerson DeLarme , Jianping Li , Hongyuan Zhao , Yuan Liu , Ruipeng Sun
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Abstract

Explosive cyclone development has been shown to be a positive feedback process, however what causes this to end is an open question. We employ the perturbation potential energy (PPE) framework to investigate the evolution of the December 2022 North American bomb cyclone (NABC) as a case study. A layer with negative PPE anomaly separates the positive PPE anomaly generated by the December 2022 NABC from a positive PPE anomaly near the tropopause during the development phase. This layer of negative PPE anomalies acts as a barrier such that positive PV anomalies cannot pass through. At the start of the decay phase, this barrier breaks, allowing stratospheric intrusion. Here we propose a mechanism where the negative upper pole of the vertical PV dipole caused by atmospheric latent heating (the lower, positive pole is involved in the positive feedback loop of development) triggers a cascade of events, where this PV anomaly causes tropopause deformation, which causes circulation anomalies, which causes enhanced energy conversion, which causes the negative PPE anomaly barrier to break, allowing a positive PV anomaly airmass to descend (indicative of stratospheric intrusion) through the break, leading to the suppression of further atmospheric latent heat release, and therefore ending the development phase of this bomb cyclone, despite the non-depletion of moisture in the vicinity of the December 2022 NABC. While this process is shown for a specific case study, the improved understanding of the life cycle of explosive cyclones has the potential to improve forecasting of explosive cyclones in the future.

Plain language summary

Bomb cyclones over land can have large social and economic consequences. Bomb cyclones are known to get stronger in part due to a cycle involving the increased potential vorticity below a level where water vapor condenses. The reasons that explosive cyclones stop developing has yet to be determined, and finding this mechanism could improve forecasts and therefore improve preparedness. In this paper we conduct a case study on a bomb cyclone that happened over North America in late December 2022 using some traditional approaches combined with a newer energetics method focusing on the local perturbations of the potential and kinetic energies. We find that this bomb cyclone stopped getting stronger, not because it ran out of water, but because of a chain of events starting from the decreased potential vorticity above the same condensation. Further research is needed to see if this process exists in other bomb cyclones, and if it can be turned into a predictive tool for forecasting.
2022 年 12 月北美炸弹气旋:扰动能量学的启示
爆炸性气旋的发展已被证明是一个正反馈过程,然而是什么导致了这一过程的结束却是一个未决问题。我们采用扰动势能(PPE)框架,以 2022 年 12 月北美炸弹气旋(NABC)的演变为案例进行研究。2022 年 12 月北美炸弹气旋在发展阶段产生的正 PPE 异常与对流层顶附近的正 PPE 异常之间存在一个负 PPE 异常层。这层负的 PPE 异常就像一道屏障,使正的 PV 异常无法通过。在衰减阶段开始时,这一屏障会被打破,从而允许平流层入侵。在这里,我们提出了一种机制,即由大气潜热引起的垂直 PV 偶极的上负极(下正极参与发展的正反馈环路)触发一连串事件,PV 异常引起对流层顶变形,引起环流异常,引起能量转换增强、导致负的 PPE 异常屏障被打破,使正的 PV 异常气团通过该屏障下降(表明平流层入侵),导致进一步的大气潜热释放被抑制,从而结束了该炸弹气旋的发展阶段,尽管 2022 年 12 月 NABC 附近的水汽并未耗尽。虽然这一过程是针对一个具体案例研究而展示的,但加深对爆炸性气旋生命周期的了解有可能改善未来爆炸性气旋的预报。
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Atmospheric Research
Atmospheric Research 地学-气象与大气科学
CiteScore
9.40
自引率
10.90%
发文量
460
审稿时长
47 days
期刊介绍: The journal publishes scientific papers (research papers, review articles, letters and notes) dealing with the part of the atmosphere where meteorological events occur. Attention is given to all processes extending from the earth surface to the tropopause, but special emphasis continues to be devoted to the physics of clouds, mesoscale meteorology and air pollution, i.e. atmospheric aerosols; microphysical processes; cloud dynamics and thermodynamics; numerical simulation, climatology, climate change and weather modification.
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