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A Moist Potential Vorticity Model for Mid-Latitude Long-Lived Mesoscale Convective Systems over Land 陆地中纬度长寿命中尺度对流系统的湿润位涡模式

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-09 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-22-0244.1

Qiu Yang, L. Leung, Zhe Feng, Xingchao Chen

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Bifurcation points for tropical cyclone genesis and intensification in sheared and dry environments 热带气旋在剪切和干燥环境中发生和增强的分岔点

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-07 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-22-0100.1

C. Nam, M. Bell, D. Tao

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Sub-vortices Within a Numerically Simulated Tornado: The Role of Unstable Vortex Rossby Waves 数值模拟龙卷风中的次涡:不稳定涡罗斯比波的作用

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-22-0237.1

Wei Huang, M. Xue

{"title":"Sub-vortices Within a Numerically Simulated Tornado: The Role of Unstable Vortex Rossby Waves","authors":"Wei Huang, M. Xue","doi":"10.1175/jas-d-22-0237.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-22-0237.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Multiple sub-vortices corresponding to suction vortices in observations are obtained within a simulated tornado for the EF4 tornado case of Funing, China on June 23, 2016. Within the simulation, the tornado evolves from a one-cell structure with vorticity maximum at its center to a two-cell structure with a ring of vorticity maximum. Five well-defined sub-vortices develop along the ring. The radial profile of tangential wind across the vorticity ring satisfies the necessary condition of barotropic instability associated with phase-locked, counter-propagating vortex Rossby waves (VRWs) along the ring edges. The phased-locked waves revolve around the parent vortex at a speed less than the maximum azimuthal-mean tangential velocity, agreeing with theoretically predicted VRW phase speed. The radii within which the wave activities are confined to are also correctly predicted by the VRW theory where radial group velocity approaches zero. Several other characteristics related to the simulated sub-vortices agree with VRW theories also. The most unstable azimuthal wavenumber depends on the width and the relative magnitude of vorticity of the vortex ring. Their values estimated from the simulation prior to sub-vortex formation correctly predict wavenumber five as the most unstable. The largest contribution to wave kinetic energy is diagnosed to be from the radial shear of azimuthal wind term, consistent with barotropic instability. Vorticity diagnostics show that vertical vorticity stretching is the primary vorticity source for the intensification and maintenance of the simulated sub-vortices.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43066643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Simple Analytical Expressions for Steady-State Vapor Growth and Collision-Coalescence Particle Size Distribution Parameter Profiles 稳态蒸气生长和碰撞聚结粒径分布参数剖面的简单解析表达式

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-23-0052.1

E. Dunnavan, A. Ryzhkov

{"title":"Simple Analytical Expressions for Steady-State Vapor Growth and Collision-Coalescence Particle Size Distribution Parameter Profiles","authors":"E. Dunnavan, A. Ryzhkov","doi":"10.1175/jas-d-23-0052.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-23-0052.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study derives simple analytical expressions for the theoretical height profiles of particle number concentrations (Nt) and mean volume diameters (Dm) during the steady-state balance of vapor growth and collision-coalescence with sedimentation. These equations are general for both rain and snow gamma size distributions with size-dependent power-law functions that dictate particle fall speeds and masses. For collision-coalescence only, Nt (Dm) decreases (increases) as an exponential function of the radar reflectivity difference between two height layers. For vapor deposition only, Dm increases as a generalized power law of this reflectivity difference. Simultaneous vapor deposition and collision-coalescence under steady-state conditions with conservation of number, mass, and reflectivity fluxes lead to a coupled set of first-order, nonlinear ordinary differential equations for Nt and Dm. The solutions to these coupled equations are generalized power-law functions of height z for Dm(z) and Nt(z) whereby each variable is related to one another with an exponent that is independent of collision-coalescence efficiency. Compared to observed profiles derived from descending in-situ aircraft Lagrangian spiral profiles from the CRYSTAL-FACE field campaign, these analytical solutions can on average capture the height profiles of Nt and Dm within 8% and 4% of observations, respectively. Steady-state model projections of radar retrievals aloft are shown to produce the correct rapid enhancement of surface snowfall compared to the lowest-available radar retrievals from 500 m MSL. Future studies can utilize these equations alongside radar measurements to estimate Nt and Dm below radar tilt elevations and to estimate uncertain microphysical parameters such as collision-coalescence efficiencies.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44359631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Masthead 桅顶

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1175/jas-808masthead

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Large-Amplitude Quasi-Stationary Rossby Wave Events in ERA5 and the CESM2: Features, Precursors, and Model Biases in Northern Hemisphere Winter ERA5和CESM2的大振幅准平稳Rossby波事件:北半球冬季的特征、前兆和模式偏差

3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-22-0042.1

Cuiyi Fei, Rachel H. White

{"title":"Large-Amplitude Quasi-Stationary Rossby Wave Events in ERA5 and the CESM2: Features, Precursors, and Model Biases in Northern Hemisphere Winter","authors":"Cuiyi Fei, Rachel H. White","doi":"10.1175/jas-d-22-0042.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-22-0042.1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract High-amplitude quasi-stationary Rossby waves (QSWs) have been connected to extreme weather events. By identifying particularly high-amplitude QSW events (QWEs) over Europe and North America, we study their characteristics in ERA5 data and in ensemble simulations from the CESM2 general circulation model. The CESM2 reproduces the overall statistics of QWEs, with ERA5 results within the ensemble spread. The ensemble spread is large, indicating a strong influence of internal variability. Composites of meridional wind anomalies for QWEs show a phase preference in both ERA5 and CESM2, resembling the climatological wave pattern. This is partly due to the definition of QSWs; with the day-of-year climatological meridional wind removed when identifying QSWs, the phase preference remains, albeit with a weaker signal. Significant tropical Pacific precipitation anomalies are seen 5–15 days before observed QWEs; the location of these anomalies is broadly reproduced in CESM2, but the magnitude is substantially underestimated and the time scale is biased. We find a narrowed and strengthened jet stream over the Pacific at the early stage of European QWEs, which may create enhanced waveguidability; this signal is generally reproduced in the models. Overall, the CESM2 can simulate QWEs; differences between the model ensemble mean and the reanalysis could result from model bias or internal variability, although biases are not reduced in CESM2 simulations forced with observed SSTs.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136167466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Mean Wind and Potential Temperature Flux Profiles in Convective Boundary Layers 对流边界层的平均风和位温通量廓线

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-22-0159.1

Luoqin Liu, Srinidhi N. Gadde, R. Stevens

{"title":"The Mean Wind and Potential Temperature Flux Profiles in Convective Boundary Layers","authors":"Luoqin Liu, Srinidhi N. Gadde, R. Stevens","doi":"10.1175/JAS-D-22-0159.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-22-0159.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000We develop innovative analytical expressions for the mean wind and potential temperature flux profiles in convective boundary layers (CBLs). CBLs are frequently observed during daytime as Earth’s surface is warmed by solar radiation. Therefore, their modeling is relevant for weather forecasting, climate modeling, and wind energy applications. For CBLs in the convective-roll-dominated regime, the mean velocity and potential temperature in the bulk region of the mixed layer are approximately uniform. We propose an analytical expression for the normalized potential temperature flux profile as a function of height, using a perturbation method approach in which we employ the horizontally homogeneous and quasi-stationary characteristics of the surface and inversion layers. The velocity profile in the mixed layer and the entrainment zone is constructed based on insights obtained from the proposed potential temperature flux profile and the convective logarithmic friction law. Combining this with the well-known Monin–Obukhov similarity theory allows us to capture the velocity profile over the entire boundary layer height. The proposed profiles agree excellently with large-eddy simulation results over the range of −L/z0 ∈ [3.6 × 102, 0.7 × 105], where L is the Obukhov length and z0 is the roughness length.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45060359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Large-amplitude quasi-stationary Rossby wave events in ERA5 and the CESM2: features, precursors, and model biases in Northern Hemisphere winter ERA5和CESM2中的大振幅准平稳Rossby波事件：北半球冬季的特征、前兆和模型偏差

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-28 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-22-0042.1.1

Cuiyi Fei, R. White

{"title":"Large-amplitude quasi-stationary Rossby wave events in ERA5 and the CESM2: features, precursors, and model biases in Northern Hemisphere winter","authors":"Cuiyi Fei, R. White","doi":"10.1175/jas-d-22-0042.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-22-0042.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000High amplitude quasi-stationary Rossby waves (QSWs) have been connected to extreme weather events. By identifying particularly high amplitude QSW events (QWEs) over Europe and North America we study their characteristics in ERA5 re-analysis data and in ensemble simulations from the CESM2 general circulation model. The CESM2 reproduces the overall statistics of QWEs, with ERA5 results within the ensemble spread. The ensemble spread is large, indicating a strong influence of internal variability. Composites of meridional wind anomalies for QWEs show a phase preference in both ERA5 and CESM2, resembling the climatological wave pattern. This is partly due to the definition of QSWs; with the day-of-year climatological meridional wind removed when identifying QSWs, the phase preference remains, albeit with a weaker signal. Significant tropical Pacific precipitation anomalies are seen 5-15 days before observed QWEs; the location of these anomalies is broadly reproduced in CESM2, but the magnitude is substantially underestimated and the time scale is biased. We find a narrowed and strengthened jet stream over the Pacific at the early stage of European QWEs, which may create enhanced waveguidability; this signal is generally reproduced in the models. Overall, the CESM2 can simulate QWEs; differences between the model ensemble mean and re-analysis could result from model bias or internal variability, although biases are not reduced in CESM2 simulations forced with observed SSTs.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45710823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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On the Accuracy of the Moist Static Energy Budget when Applied to Large-Scale Tropical Motions 应用于大尺度热带运动的湿静态能量收支的准确性

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-23-0005.1

Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, V. Mayta

{"title":"On the Accuracy of the Moist Static Energy Budget when Applied to Large-Scale Tropical Motions","authors":"Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, V. Mayta","doi":"10.1175/jas-d-23-0005.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-23-0005.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The moist static energy (MSE) budget is widely used to understand moist atmospheric thermodynamics. However, the budget is not exact, and the accuracy of the approximations that yield it has not been examined rigorously in the context of large-scale tropical motions (horizontal scales ≥ 1000 km). A scale analysis shows that these approximations are most accurate in systems whose latent energy anomalies are considerably larger than the geopotential and kinetic energy anomalies. This condition is satisfied in systems that exhibit phase speeds and horizontal winds on the order of 10 m s−1 or less. Results from a power spectral analysis of data from the DYNAMO field campaign and ERA5 qualitatively agree with the scaling, although they indicate that the neglected terms are smaller than what the scaling suggests. A linear regression analysis of the MJO events that occurred during DYNAMO yields results that support these findings. It is suggested that the MSE budget is accurate in the tropics because motions within these latitudes are constrained to exhibit small fluctuations in geopotential and kinetic energy as a result of Weak Temperature Gradient (WTG) balance.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47278622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Assessing the Comparative Effects of Storm-relative Helicity Components within Right-moving Supercell Environments 右移超级单元环境中风暴相对螺旋度分量的比较效应评估

IF 3.1 3区地球科学

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-22-0253.1

Nicholas A. Goldacker, M. Parker

{"title":"Assessing the Comparative Effects of Storm-relative Helicity Components within Right-moving Supercell Environments","authors":"Nicholas A. Goldacker, M. Parker","doi":"10.1175/jas-d-22-0253.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-22-0253.1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Supercell thunderstorms develop low-level rotation via tilting of environmental horizontal vorticity by the updraft. This rotation induces dynamic lifting that can stretch near-surface vertical vorticity into a tornado. Low-level updraft rotation is generally thought to scale with 0–500 m storm-relative helicity (SRH): the combination of storm-relative flow, , , and (where is the angle between and ). It is unclear how much influence each component of SRH has in intensifying the low-level mesocyclone. This study surveys these three components using self-organizing maps (SOMs) to distill 15,906 proximity soundings for observed right-moving supercells. Statistical analyses reveal the component most highly correlated to SRH and to streamwise vorticity in the observed profiles is . Furthermore, and are themselves highly correlated due to their shared dependence on the hodograph length. The representative profiles produced by the SOMs were combined with a common thermodynamic profile to initialize quasi-realistic supercells in a cloud model. The simulations reveal that, across a range of real-world profiles, intense low-level mesocyclones are most closely linked to and , while the angle between them appears to be mostly inconsequential.","PeriodicalId":17231,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42227758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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