Barotropic local instability and severe storm process

By means of barotropic model, the characteristic and initial value problems are investigated to reveal the local two-dimensional barotropic instability of the nonuniform current to the dynamic mechanism of the formation of the Yangtze-Huaihe River severe storm in July 1991. Analytical theory and numerical experiment show that (i) the unstable developing modes are chiefly the two periods of about 44d and 10 d, which are fundamentally consistent with that of the precipitation change of the Yangtze-Huaihe River, (ii) The growth rate of the local perturbation is dominated by the meridional wave number n = 1-5 and zonal wave number k = 1-12, i.e. the severe storm over the Yangtze-Huaihe River results from the interaction of the systems at different latitudes and waves of different scales, (iii) The perturbation over the Yangtze-Huaihe River possesses the property of local intensification, which slowly migrates westward over the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze-Huaihe River, (iv) The growth rate of the instability, especially the propagation velocity of the perturbation, is sensitive to the external parameters -u and a.

By means of barotropic model, the characteristic and initial value problems are investigated to reveal the local two-dimensional barotropic instability of the nonuniform current to the dynamic mechanism of the formation of the Yangtze-Huaihe River severe storm in July 1991. Analytical theory and numerical experiment show that (i) the unstable developing modes are chiefly the two periods of about 44d and 10 d, which are fundamentally consistent with that of the precipitation change of the Yangtze-Huaihe River, (ii) The growth rate of the local perturbation is dominated by the meridional wave number n = 1-5 and zonal wave number k = 1-12, i.e. the severe storm over the Yangtze-Huaihe River results from the interaction of the systems at different latitudes and waves of different scales, (iii) The perturbation over the Yangtze-Huaihe River possesses the property of local intensification, which slowly migrates westward over the lower and middle reaches of the Yangtze-Huaihe River, (iv) The growth rate of