NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND MESOSCALE ANALYSIS OF A TORRENTIAL RAIN CAUSED BY TYPHOON

A heavy storm rainfall caused by Typhoon Aere (No.0418) when landing at Fujian has been successfully simulated by using AREM model. The simulation result is scale-separated by spatial band-pass filtering, which reveals the mesoscale low pressure and convergence line that has direct impact on this rainfall process. The physical characteristics of the two mesoscale systems and their relation with rainfall are also analyzed. Study shows that there exists a well corresponding relationship between the storm rainfall and mesoscale divergence and strong updraft arising from the convergence, which is caused by the interactions between the mesoscale systems and topographic features, and is directly responsible for the rainfall.

MESOSCALE ANALYSIS OF YUNNAN SUCCESSIVE HEAVY PRECIPITATION AROUSED BY THE STORM OVER THE BAY IN EARLY SUMMER

By using regular meteorological data, physical quantity fields, satellite pictures and Doppler radar echo data, we analyze the mesoscale features and the conditions of 4 successive heavy precipitation processes in Yunnan aroused by the storm over the Bay in the early summer. The results show that the life of the storm over the Bay is usual 2 or 3 days and the cloud top temperature of the storm is always below -65℃. The storm over the Bay affects Yunnan by mesoscale convective cloud clusters, cloud system in peripheral or weaken itse,fmoving to the northeast. The Tibetan Plateau shear lines and vortexes, NE-SW convergence channels and southwest wind convergence supply favorable circulation background and dynamical conditions. There are many common features about Doppler radar echoes, the flocculent echoes with intensity about 35-45 dBZ move to the east to produce successive precipitation in Yunnan, and the mesoscale features of southwest jet and wind veering with altitude not only are favorable to transport warm and moist airflow brought to the north by the storm over the Bay. but also are favorable to convective development.

ANALYSIS OF MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED WITH A WARM-SECTOR RAINSTORM EVENT OVER SOUTH CHINA

With multiple meteorological data, including precipitation from automatic weather stations, integrated satellite-based precipitation (CMORPH), brightness temperature (TBB), radar echoes and NCEP reanalysis, a rainstorm event, which occurred on May 26, 2007 over South China, is analyzed with the focus on the evolution characteristics of associated mesoscale-β convective systems (Mβcss). Results are shown as follows. (1) The rainstorm presents itself as a typical warm-sector event, for it occurs within a surface inverted trough and on the left side of a southwesterly low-level jet (LLJ), which shows no obvious features of baroclinicity. (2) The heavy rainfall event is directly related to at least three bodies of Mβcss with peak precipitation corresponding well to their mature stages. (3) The Mβcss manifest a backward propagation, which is marked with a new form of downstream convection different from the more usual type of forward propagation over South China, i.e., new convective systems mainly form at the rear part of older Mβcss. (4) Rainstorm-causing Mβcss form near the convergence region on the left side of an 850-hPa southwesterly LLJ, over which there are dominantly divergent air flows at 200 hPa. Different from the typical flow pattern of outward divergence off the east side of South Asia High, which is usually found to be over zones of heavy rains during the annually first rainy season of South China, this warm-sector heavy rain is below the divergence region formed between the easterly and southerly flows west of the South Asian High that is moving out to sea. (5) The LLJ transports abundant amount of warm and moist air to the heavy rainfall area, providing advantageous conditions for highly unstable energy to generate and store at middle and high levels, where corresponding low-level warm advection may be playing a more direct role in the development of Mβcss. As a triggering mechanism for organized convective systems, the effect of low-level warm advection deserves more of our attention. Based on the analysis of surface mesoscale airflow in the article, possible triggering mechanisms for Mβcss are also discussed.

Analysis and Study of a Mesoscale Inertia-Gravitational Wave in Upper Air

A mesoscale inertia-gravitational wave at 200 hPa is analysed. The reasons of this wave occurring are also discussed. It is indicated that the occurrence of this wave is due to inertia-gravitational instability, and closely related to horizontal and vertical shear of wind.

Analysis of the First Heavy Rain in Hubei Province during Meiyu Season

[Objective]The aim was to analyze the first fit of rainstorm in southeast Hubei on June 9,2011.[Method]GFS reanalysis data with resolution 0.5°×0.5°,routine-observational data,the intensive observations of automatic weather station data,satellite image as well as satellite image were used in the analysis for the process of a heavy rain on June 9-10,2011 during Meiyu in Hubei province.[Result]The heavy rainfall occurred under the favorable environmental conditions,but the single-obstruction situation during Meiyu was different from the typical double-obstruction one.The affecting systems were the trough at 45° N on 500 hPa caused the systems moving slowly in the middle and low troposphere.The strong convergence of water vapor and conditional convective instability were provided from the shear line on 700 and 850 hPa,the southwest jet flow and dry lines in the middle and low troposphere for heavy rainfall.Three rain clusters which brought heavy rainfall had the features of meso-scale β system,which came from warm and humid airflow,the tail of shear line on 700 hPa and the head of shear line on 850 hPa.Through convergence and strengthening in southeast region of Hubei Province,the ribbon structure from northeast to southwest was formed to maintain the meso-scale β system.The cloud was the direct producer of precipitation.Heavy rainfall occurred in strengthening phase of strong convection zone on Tongcheng city.[Conclusion]The study provided theoretical reference for the report of rainstorm during Meiyu period.

SENSITIVE NUMERICAL SIMULATION AND ANALYSIS OF RAINSTORM USING NESTED WRF MODEL

Nowadays, the nested grid model is widely used to increase the resolution of numerical model. An attempt to investigate the influence of the newly developed nesting technique of WRF model on the mesoscale numerical simulation of severe storm is described in this article. The results of sensitivity tests infer that the WRF model give more accurate and vivid prediction of severe storm with nesting scheme. As is shown in the tests, simulating value of the precipitation centers using nesting scheme are larger than those without using nesting scheme, which indicates that the simulating precipitation of nested storm is closer to the real rainfall. And there is obvious improvement of distribution of rain area and position of precipitation centers. According to the high resolution output data of the WRF model, deep and detailed analysis of characters of the mesoscale system that triggers the rainstorm is reported in this article, and the thermal and dynamical characters of this Meiyu front severe storm are also discussed.

Role of a Meso-γ Vortex in Meiyu Torrential Rainfall over the Hangzhou Bay,China:An Observational Study

A mesoscale torrential rainfall event that occurred over eastern China in June 2013 is analyzed by using observational data.The results show that a mesoscale convergence line and a weak convective cloud line formed over the northern part of the Hangzhou Bay during the onset of the torrential rainfall event.A meso-vortex appeared over the confluence point of northeasterly flow associated with the Yellow-Sea high,easterly flow from rainfall area,and southeasterly flow from the Hangzhou Bay.The meso-vortex with a horizontal scale of 10-20 km lasted for about 1 h for stable surface circulations.The analysis of radar retrieval reveals that the meso-vortex in the boundary layer occurred at the south of strong radar echo.The formation of the meso-vortex turned to enhance convergence and cyclonic vorticity in the lower troposphere,which strengthened updrafts that are tilted into convective clouds and caused torrential rainfall.Thus,the occurrence of the meso-vortex in boundary layer is one of the mechanisms that are responsible for the enhancement of convective development.