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DOI | 10.1175/JAS-D-18-0348.1 |
Wave Disturbances and Their Role in the Maintenance, Structure, and Evolution of a Mesoscale Convection System | |
Zhang, Shushi1,2; Parsons, David B.3; Wang, Yuan1,2 | |
2020 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES |
ISSN | 0022-4928 |
EISSN | 1520-0469 |
出版年 | 2020 |
卷号 | 77期号:1页码:51-77 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Peoples R China; USA |
英文摘要 | This study investigates a nocturnal mesoscale convective system (MCS) observed during the Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN) field campaign. A series of wavelike features were observed ahead of this MCS with extensive convective initiation (CI) taking place in the wake of one of these disturbances. Simulations with the WRF-ARW Model were utilized to understand the dynamics of these disturbances and their impact on the MCS. In these simulations, an "elevated bore" formed within an inversion layer aloft in response to the layer being lifted by air flowing up and over the cold pool. As the bore propagated ahead of the MCS, the lifting created an environment more conducive to deep convection allowing the MCS to discretely propagate due to CI in the bore's wake. The Scorer parameter was somewhat favorable for trapping of this wave energy, although aspects of the environment evolved to be consistent with the expectations for an n = 2 mode deep tropospheric gravity wave. A bore within an inversion layer aloft is reminiscent of disturbances predicted by two-layer hydraulic theory, contrasting with recent studies that suggest bores are frequently initiated by the interaction between the flow within stable nocturnal boundary layer and convectively generated cold pools. Idealized simulations that expand upon this two-layer approach with orography and a well-mixed layer below the inversion suggest that elevated bores provide a possible mechanism for daytime squall lines to remove the capping inversion often found over the Great Plains, particularly in synoptically disturbed environments where vertical shear could create a favorable trapping of wave energy. |
英文关键词 | Deep convection Gravity waves Mesoscale systems |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000501208900003 |
WOS关键词 | LOW-LEVEL JET ; SQUALL-LINE ; GRAVITY-WAVES ; WARM-SEASON ; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS ; SOLITARY WAVE ; INTERNAL BORE ; MODEL ; PRECIPITATION ; PROPAGATION |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | 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/280267 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Nanjing Univ, Key Lab Mesoscale Severe Weather, Minist Educ, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 2.Nanjing Univ, Sch Atmospher Sci, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 3.Univ Oklahoma, Sch Meteorol, Norman, OK 73019 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Shushi,Parsons, David B.,Wang, Yuan. Wave Disturbances and Their Role in the Maintenance, Structure, and Evolution of a Mesoscale Convection System[J]. JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,2020,77(1):51-77. |
APA | Zhang, Shushi,Parsons, David B.,&Wang, Yuan.(2020).Wave Disturbances and Their Role in the Maintenance, Structure, and Evolution of a Mesoscale Convection System.JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,77(1),51-77. |
MLA | Zhang, Shushi,et al."Wave Disturbances and Their Role in the Maintenance, Structure, and Evolution of a Mesoscale Convection System".JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 77.1(2020):51-77. |
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