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DOI | 10.5194/acp-18-1997-2018 |
Tropical continental downdraft characteristics: mesoscale systems versus unorganized convection | |
Schiro, Kathleen A.; Neelin, J. David | |
2018-02-12 | |
发表期刊 | ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS |
ISSN | 1680-7316 |
EISSN | 1680-7324 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 18期号:3页码:1997-2010 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Downdrafts and cold pool characteristics for strong mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) and isolated, unorganized deep precipitating convection are analyzed using multi-instrument data from the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) GoAmazon2014/5 campaign. Increases in column water vapor (CWV) are observed leading convection, with higher CWV preceding MCSs than for isolated cells. For both MCSs and isolated cells, increases in wind speed, decreases in surface moisture and temperature, and increases in relative humidity occur coincidentally with system passages. Composites of vertical velocity data and radar reflectivity from a radar wind profiler show that the downdrafts associated with the sharpest decreases in surface equivalent potential temperature (theta(e)) have a probability of occurrence that increases with decreasing height below the freezing level. Both MCSs and unorganized convection show similar mean downdraft magnitudes and probabilities with height. Mixing computations suggest that, on average, air originating at heights greater than 3 km must undergo substantial mixing, particularly in the case of isolated cells, to match the observed cold pool theta(e), implying a low typical origin level. Precipitation conditionally averaged on decreases in surface equivalent potential temperature (Delta theta(e)) exhibits a strong relationship because the most negative Delta theta(e) values are associated with a high probability of precipitation. The more physically motivated conditional average of Delta theta(e) on precipitation shows that decreases in theta(e) level off with increasing precipitation rate, bounded by the maximum difference between surface theta(e) and its minimum in the profile aloft. Robustness of these statistics observed across scales and regions suggests their potential use as model diagnostic tools for the improvement of downdraft parameterizations in climate models. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000424825400004 |
WOS关键词 | MIDLATITUDE SQUALL LINE ; COLUMN WATER-VAPOR ; COLD POOLS ; DEEP CONVECTION ; SUBCLOUD LAYER ; BOUNDARY-LAYER ; CUMULUS PARAMETERIZATION ; VERTICAL STRUCTURE ; LIFE-CYCLE ; PRECIPITATION |
WOS类目 | Environmental Sciences ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/27269 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Schiro, Kathleen A.,Neelin, J. David. Tropical continental downdraft characteristics: mesoscale systems versus unorganized convection[J]. ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,2018,18(3):1997-2010. |
APA | Schiro, Kathleen A.,&Neelin, J. David.(2018).Tropical continental downdraft characteristics: mesoscale systems versus unorganized convection.ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS,18(3),1997-2010. |
MLA | Schiro, Kathleen A.,et al."Tropical continental downdraft characteristics: mesoscale systems versus unorganized convection".ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS 18.3(2018):1997-2010. |
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