贺兰山东麓极端暴雨的中尺度特征

利用近10年宁夏逐时自动气象站降水、银川CD雷达、FY-2、探空和ECMWF再分析0.125°×0.125°等高分辨率多源气象资料,在中尺度系统分型基础上,对比分析贺兰山东麓6次极端暴雨的中尺度特征。结果表明:(1)低空偏(东)南急流夜间增强并配合贺兰山地形,在东坡山前触发或增强了暴雨中小尺度系统,造成地形处降水增幅,极端暴雨都是伴有短时强降水的对流性暴雨,主要集中在东坡山前,中心在山洪沟口,夜雨特征显著。(2)环境场都满足对流性暴雨的3个基本条件:700 hPa(东)南急流将暖湿水汽输向暴雨区,低层高温高湿促进了大气不稳定与动力、热力、地形抬升触发机制;深对流过程850 hPa无明显急流,水汽主要来自孟加拉湾,水汽输送受限,但大气稳定度更低,更有利于对流性暴雨发生,混合对流过程850 hPa与700 hPa急流路径重合,水汽来自孟加拉湾、南海、黄海和渤海,水汽输送更充沛,更有利于持续性暴雨产生。(3)极端暴雨主要有暖区对流降水、锋面对流降水、锋区层状云降水3种性质;暖区对流主要在山区,地形抬升是触发机制,锋面对流的触发是低层暖湿气流沿着冷垫抬(爬)升,平原和山区皆有;对流系统的移动与低层风场一致,山区和平原分别沿山体和低空急流轴传播,通常移动与传播方向平行,山区低层为偏东风时,移动与传播近似垂直,列车效应明显。(4)线型对流系统过程冷空气弱,以暖区或(和)锋面对流性降水为主,对流系统在山前沿山体传播形成组织化程度高的带状线型回波,移动与传播有平行有垂直,受地形抬升作用,对流系统在山前稳定少动、发展强盛,降水历时短、范围小、雨强大、有间歇性,3~4 h的累计雨量占过程总量的85%左右,区域平均雨量远小于暴雨量级,地形性强对流暴雨特征凸显。(5)非线型对流系统过程冷空气强,以锋面对流性降水和锋区层状云降水为主,对流系统在山前和平原沿山体和急流轴传播和移动形成非线型回波,平原地区传播与移动平行,山区两者垂直,对流系统组织化程度不高、移速快、强度弱,降水历时长、范围大、雨强小,连续降水累计雨量大,区域平均雨量接近或达到暴雨量级,混合性降水特征明显。(6)降水强度R与CAPE增幅、回波强度Z、强回波持续时间、回波顶高、液态水含量呈正相关,与TBB呈负相关,相关性在深对流过程更清晰;Z≥40 dBZ时,Z-R满足关系式:R=3.67×10-8Z5.222+4.835。     

一次暴雨天气过程的多普勒雷达特征分析

利用新一代多普勒天气雷达资料和常规天气资料,详细分析了2008年7月30—31日鄂尔多斯市北部地区出现暴雨的天气过程。结果表明:从雷达资料中可以清楚地看出降水的性质,及降水性质转变的具体时间(从暖区降水转为冷锋后降水)、冷锋的位置、降水云系的强弱、降水天气开始和结束的时段,降水云团何时加强、何时减弱等特征。     

A case study of GATE convective activity

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This paper presents the synoptic and meso‐scale aspects of the intense convective activity of 2 September 1974 in the Eastern Atlantic. Two main features were evident in the GATE B‐scale array: a broad convective band associated with the 700‐mb trough, and long and narrow lines of convection oriented SE‐NW. One of these lines, which moved across the B‐scale array and was penetrated by several aircraft, is described in detail. The structure of the cloud and precipitation fields, obtained from the analysis of satellite and radar data, indicates that intense precipitation occurred mainly at the leading edge of the line where new cells were continuously generating. Cross‐sections through the line (from boom, aircraft and tethered balloon data) show a gust front at the surface, a downdraft region associated with the rain area, and a wind shift in the lowest 300 m. The circulations around and within this line appear to be similar to a class of tropical squall‐lines studied at length by Zipser, (1977) and Houze (1977) with the important difference that the horizontal gradients of the dynamic and thermodynamic variables across the line were typically weaker.     

Weather conditions associated with the passage of precipitation type transition regions over eastern Newfoundland

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The passage of a winter storm is accompanied by changes in many surface and near‐surface parameters including temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, precipitation rate and type, cloud base height, visibility and accretion. These parameters were measured in association with the passage of precipitation‐type transitions over Newfoundland during the Canadian Atlantic Storms Program II field experiment. Three simple summaries of the observed weather events were developed. These summaries depend on the observed large‐scale synoptic conditions, which include warm fronts, a cold front and a trough.     

Inhomogeneous features in mel-yu frontal cloud system

The structure of radar echo in stratiform cloud which was found in mei-yu frontal cloud system is generally inhomogeneous, especially in the structure of bright band echoes. The inhomogeneous structure of warm region in stratiform cloud and the shower feature of precipitation are closely related to the inhomogeneous structure of bright band and convective cells embedded in stratiform cloud.During Summer time the mei-yu cloud system is an important precipitating system in the southern part of China. To study its structure is of great significance for weather forecast and understanding the physical processes of cloud and precipitation. Therefore, we have observed mei-yu frontal cloud system by use of 711 type radar (3 cm) and airplane at Tunxi, Anhui Province since 1979. It was found that the structure of stratiform cloud, especially the structure of its warm region appears to be inhomogeneous1),2). This is a significant feature of cloud structure in mei-yu frontal cloud system. In this paper, we shall further analyse this inhomogeneous structure of stratiform cloud and study its effect on the precipitation.     

Radar observations of snow formation in a warm pre‐frontal snowband

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Radar reflectivity measurements and sounding data were analyzed to investigate snowfall production in a long‐lasting snowband that formed in advance of a warm surface front moving across Alberta. The sounding data indicated that the band could have been forced by slantwise overturning during the release of moist symmetric instability combined with frontogenesis. The stability analysis presented here is novel in that it includes ice phase thermodynamics, neglected in previous studies of slantwise convection.

Radar reflectivity fields were analyzed to determine the total snow content and the mass outflow rate as factors of time. The peak value of total snow content was 17 kilotons per km of snowband, and the peak mass outflow rate was 10 tons s^‐1 km^‐1. The snowfall rate averaged across the cloud base was about 0.8 cm h^‐1, and the average snow content remained close to 0.2 g m^‐1. The characteristic time (defined as the ratio of total snow content over mass outflow rate) was about 30 minutes, which is approximately the time needed for the growth of snowflakes by aggregation in the observed temperature range. The precipitation efficiency of the snowband, defined as the ratio of snow mass outflow to water vapour inflow was estimated to be 14%. The precipitation production values observed in the Alberta snowband are compared with previous estimates reported for frontal rainbands and Alberta thunderstorms.     

福建省中南部一次强飑线过程分析

利用常规气象资料、自动观测站资料和多普勒雷达等资料,综合分析了2005年3月22日发生在福建省中南部地区的一次飑线天气过程。结果表明:福建处于上干冷、下暖湿的不稳定大气层结中,南支槽和冷锋的逼近触发了不稳定能量的释放和风暴的发生。强风暴发生在高空急流出口区左侧辐散和地面冷锋前侧辐合重叠区。多普勒雷达资料很好地揭示了该飑线的发展、演变和移动特征。速度场的分析可以较早获得飑线东移中将发展加强的信息,对短时临近预报有指导意义。     

福建西部山区一次中尺度对流系统触发机制分析

利用常规天气资料及地面自动站、风廓线雷达、新一代天气雷达资料和ERA-Interim逐6 h 0.125°×0.125°再分析资料,分析2015年5月19日福建西部山区一次极端降水的中尺度特征。结果表明:(1)极端降水分为锋前暖区降水和锋面降水两个阶段,暴雨区位于低空西南急流轴左侧,水汽充足,冷暖空气交汇,不稳定能量大,抬升凝结高度和自由对流高度低,大气可降水量大及中等强度的垂直风切变形成有利于中尺度对流系统(mesoscale covective system, MCS)发展的环境条件。(2)锋前暖区降水期间,西南气流携带高能量和水汽充足的空气移入暴雨区被中尺度边界附近的冷出流空气抬升,不断产生新的对流单体,对流单体向东北偏东方向移动,排列形成短雨带;若干条东北—西南向长度不等的短雨带在中尺度出流边界北侧建立,缓慢向东移动,依次重复影响关键区;暴雨关键区存在辐合线和风速辐合,为降水提供了良好的动力抬升条件;向西南开口的河谷地形加强了对流的发展;对流单体不断后部建立和东北西南向多个短雨带重复影响同一地区的列车效应是此阶段MCS主要发展方式。(3)锋面降水期间,对流单体在低涡切变南侧风速辐合、水汽和能量大值区发展东移南压,中高层先于低层转偏北气流,表现出前倾特征,垂直风切变加大,冷空气从中高层先扩散南下,与低层暖湿空气交汇使对流加强,冷暖气流的交汇叠加风速辐合使得强降水加强并维持。对流单体后向传播向东移动产生的列车效应是此阶段MCS主要发展方式。     

On the air‐sea interaction in areas of thermal marine fronts in the Greenland Sea

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The effects of marine fronts on the local atmospheric surface layer and air‐sea interaction were studied. Several mesoscale fronts were crossed by a research vessel in the Greenland Sea. Air temperature, humidity and stability conditions, and the fluxes of momentum, as well as sensible and latent heat, were investigated. For relatively calm conditions, close air‐sea coupling was observed in the temperature whereas for stronger winds, the air temperature of the surface layer was not markedly modified by the front below. Changes in the moisture content in the frontal area were observed and, in one case, evaporation was observed on the warm water side and condensation on the cold water side of the front. Frontal differences in heating from the sea were assumed to affect the surface‐layer wind field.     

95GHz云雷达对一次冷锋云系结构的观测分析

利用安徽寿县W-Band云雷达(95GHz,波长3.16mm)、地面微波辐射计、探空和地面观测等资料,对2008年11月5-7日一次冷锋云系的云结构进行了分析。结果表明,云雷达的多普勒速度可以初步确定粒子相态和大小以及是否存在雪晶或雨滴;在0℃层附近有回波暗带产生,这主要是由于波长为3mm的雷达对雪晶的衰减较强以及粒子的非Rayleigh散射引起的;云雷达观测可以清楚地识别混合云中的融化层。冷锋云系发展、演变过程及结构非常不均匀:锋面前部,在5～7km之间有一水凝物含量大值区,不断有长大的冰雪晶下落,使云底逐渐下伸,触地后产生间歇性阵性降水;降水过后,5km左右有一相对干层,上部为高层云,下部为散乱的多层云结构;冷锋临近,云层冷区没有水凝物含量大值区,回波强度较弱,暖区2km以下是干冷的东北气流,限制了雨滴通过暖雨过程增长,导致锋面降水强度较小,持续时间短。锋面后部4～7km高度,由于冰雪晶沉降,相对湿度较小,云层分裂成两层云;冷锋过后,出现了较强的降水,这主要是由暖雨过程产生的。     

The synoptic‐ and planetary‐scale signatures of precipitating systems over the Mackenzie River Basin

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The synoptic‐ and planetary‐scale signatures of precipitating systems over the Mackenzie River Basin (MRB) are elucidated using composites based on a 28‐year sample of widespread precipitation events. These wet events are defined as days on which 5 or more of 12 surface stations in the MRB receive at least 2.5 mm of precipitation. Seasonal composites based on a total of 600 wet events reveal a sequence of statistically significant flow anomalies. Examination of individual wet events motivates stratification of the seasonal samples according to sea‐level pressure distribution. One evolution that is particularly common during fall, winter and spring involves lee cyclogenesis over the southern MRB in association with a strong cyclone over the Gulf of Alaska; such events are dubbed Gulf Redevelopment (GR) cases. A composite based on 59 wintertime GR events indicates upslope flow north of the lee cyclone and warm advection along an east‐west oriented warm front during the precipitation event. Composites of the Q‐vector and the divergence of this field confirm the presence of quasigeostrophic (QG) forcing for ascent over the MRB during this period. A thermally indirect “topographic tilting” mechanism, involving downs‐lope warming over the southern MRB and upslope cooling to the north, is hypothesized to increase warm‐frontal baroclinicity over the MRB. The GR composite 500 hPa geopotential height anomaly pattern is characterized by a series of anomalies extending from the Bering Sea to the Gulf of Mexico. The western (eastern) anomalies tend to decay (amplify) with time. The composite exhibits a positive anomaly over the Bering Sea, a negative anomaly over the Gulf of Alaska that moves eastward into the MRB during the precipitation event, and a positive anomaly that moves eastward over western and central North America. The presence of large, slow‐moving flow anomalies and an extended period of enhanced southwesterly geostrophic flow over the MRB in the composite suggests that a persistent influx of Pacific moisture is required to moisten the atmosphere over the MRB sufficiently for widespread precipitation. An independent composite of dry MRB cyclone events exhibits substantially weaker southwesterly geostrophic flow into the MRB relative to the wet GR composite.     

大连地区暖锋暴雨个例成因与雷达回波特征

利用常规观测资料、自动站资料和多普勒雷达资料等,对2009年7月14日大连暴雨局部大暴雨过程进行详细分析。结果表明：这是一次暖锋大暴雨过程,高空河套槽北抬和北支槽尾段相叠加,中低层在渤海北部到大连地区形成涡旋环流,700 hPa气旋式较大曲率处在地面暖锋上空,大连地区位于地面气旋顶部即暖锋顶部,造成强降水的产生。强湿区,配合暖锋前低层辐合中心、高层辐散中心,为暖锋大暴雨天气提供水汽和动力条件。从雷达回波分析可以看出,暖锋前部45dBz的β中尺度反射率及速度场上“单牛眼”特征,是造成此次暴雨过程及短时暴雨的直接原因。VWP资料分析表明,低层东南急流与高层西南急流形成切变层的高度以及两支急流的强度变化,与暖锋对应并决定降水的强弱。     

Analyses on integrated detection of the blizzard process in 19–20 March 2012 in Urumqi,Xinjiang China

Using the multi-source observation data from wind-profiling radar, microwave radiometer, Doppler weather radar, etc. during the blizzard event in 19–20 March 2012 in Urumqi, this paper analyzed the detailed characteristics of the atmospheric dynamics, thermodynamics, intensity and water vapor during the process of this blizzard weather. The findings suggest: (1) in the course of the blizzard weather, the near-surface atmosphere is mainly dominated by northwest airflows, the wind speed and relative humidity increase rapidly, temperature drops and air pressure ascends; (2) the blizzard weather this time is accompanied by cold front system whose entering time is about 16:00 BT 19 March; the shear line that develops from low to high is the position height of the frontal zone, and the variation of the high-level frontal zone directly reflects the altitude and layers where cold and warm air masses interact; (3) the radar equivalent reflectivity factor of the snowstorm process changes within the range 8–25 dBZ_e and its large-value zone is correlated well with the blizzard duration, the height for the formation of rain (snow) particles and the snow intensity; (4) before the occurrence of the blizzard, atmosphere is in the state of high temperature and high humidity, the maximum vapor density is around 6 g m^?3, water vapor mainly stays under the height of 5,000 m; affected by cold front system, cold airs gradually lift warm and moist airs so that the vapor condenses and deposits into water drops and snow particles, forming the snowstorm in the end.     

Sferics at two stations compared with radar‐observed precipitation

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The thunderstorms of a June cold‐front passage have been observed by radar, on a constant‐altitude map at 6‐km height as “Larsen areas’ ‘ within which the precipitation intensity level exceeds 30 dBZ, and by two sferics receivers, frequency 100 ± 50 kHz, one at the radar and the other 57 km distant. From the sferics, a distribution of storms with angular extent was obtained. This yielded the distribution with azimuth of the sferics random observational errors: normal with standard deviation 2.1°. Combined with radar‐determined ranges (between 100 and 200 km), it also yielded the distribution with cross‐range linear extent of the sferics sources: log normal with median 9.2 km, standard deviation corresponding to a factor 1.6, for widths 6 to 15 km. No correlation was found between storm width and sferics rate. A power‐law relation has been found between sferics rate and the Larsen area A, sufficiently good that the sferics rate can be predicted within a factor 2 from the Larsen area, but different from that obtained for another day. For both days, the Larsen area A could be replaced by another precipitation parameter, P, in effect a weighted area taking into account the variation within A of the precipitation intensity. This more complex parameter was somewhat better than Aas a predictor of the sferics rate.     

锋面滑升运动的物理机制

锋面滑升运动是形成锋面降水的重要原因,弄清锋面滑升运动的物理机制对锋面降水的预报是必要的。依据大气动力学原理,对锋面滑升运动的物理成因进行了研究。已知暖空气沿锋面的滑动与暖空气垂直于锋面的风速(u_w)和锋面移动速度(c)之差有关。当暖空气垂直于锋面的风速小于锋面的移动速度(u_wc)时,暖空气向上滑动;当暖空气垂直于锋面的风速大于锋面的移动速度(u_wc)时,暖空气向下滑动。因为锋面的移动速度小于锋后冷空气垂直于锋面的风速(cu_c),所以,暖空气沿锋面的滑动与锋区中垂直于锋面方向的风速的分布有关,当锋区中有(?)u/(?)u0时,暖空气必定向下滑动;暖空气若向上滑动,锋区中必为(?)u/(?)x0。本文依据大气动力学原理给出了锋面坡度公式,通过演绎该式,得到了分析锋区中(?)u/(?)x的公式,结果表明:(1)当锋面坡度增大时,大气沿锋面向上滑动,反之向下滑动。(2)锋面强度加强时,大气沿锋面向上滑动,反之向下滑动。(3)暖平流时上滑,冷平流时下滑。(4)当锋面上出现气旋式涡度增大时,大气沿锋面向上滑动,反之向下滑动。(5)当垂直于锋面方向的地转风沿锋面由下向上增大时,大气沿锋面向上滑动,反之向下滑动。     

冷锋云系前中尺度回波系统的特征及其与暴雨的关系

本文利用北京、石家庄等地的天气雷达连续观测回波资料，同步气象卫星提供的每3小时的卫星云图资料，华北地区每小时航空地面观测资料，以及北京、天津和河北省与山东省部分地区气候站提供的每小时降水资料，对1981年7月3—4日冷锋云系前暖区内中尺度回波系统的形成和发展的特征及其与暴雨的关系进行了分析。     

2017年8月13日东洞庭湖水龙卷特征

利用常规观测资料、自动气象站资料及湖南省岳阳多普勒天气雷达资料对2017年8月13日东洞庭湖水龙卷（简称扁山水龙卷）进行分析。结果表明:高空辐散、中低空低压切变、边界层气旋式辐合与特殊环境共同形成强烈辐合上升流场，3个相继北上的γ中尺度低涡中第2个低涡在上升流场和前后低涡共同作用下，在扁山水域迅速加强形成水龙卷，扁山湖心自动气象站风向风速、气压、能见度等变化较为显著，但仅伴随0.2 mm阵性降水。雷达产品显示:扁山水域强辐合带北部强降水质心低、强风切变低、切变上空水平径向风速小，但整条辐合带无风暴跟踪信息、中气旋和龙卷式涡旋特征；风廓线显示扁山水龙卷形成时边界层0.6 km中气旋与0.3 km近地面辐合流场上下叠加。通过与安徽升金湖水龙卷以及洞庭湖区历史上多次龙卷进行比较，认为低空强烈气旋式辐合流场对水龙卷生消有重要作用，高空大范围辐散与中低空、边界层、地面辐合垂直叠加产生的强烈抬升抽吸作用则是扁山水龙卷的主要成因。     

副高边缘暴雨的多普勒雷达回波特征

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