The chemical fractionation of atmospheric aerosol as a result of snow crystal formation and growth

The relationships between the physical and chemical properties of mixed-phase clouds were investigated at Storm Peak Laboratory (3220m MSL) located near the continental divide in northwestern Colorado. Interstitial aerosol particles, cloud droplets and snow crystals were concurrently collected when the laboratory was enveloped by a precipitating cloud. All samples were analyzed for trace elements, soluble anions, electrical conductivity and acidity.The results show average trace constituent concentration ratios of cloud water to snow water range from 0.4 to 26. All but six of the 32 elements and ions measured had ratios greater than one. This result suggests a chemical species dependency of in-cloud aerosol particle scavenging processes. Evidence of a decrease of in-cloud aerosol particle scavenging efficiency by snow due to increases in aerosol concentration is also presented.Differences between the chemical composition of cloud water and snow water are manifested most strongly when snow crystals grow by vapor deposition. In-cloud scavenging efficiencies by snow crystals for most aerosol particle chemical species are dependent on the growth of the snow crystals by accretion of cloud droplets. This chemical fractionation of the atmospheric aerosol by snow crystal formation and growth should be most active where narrow, continental cloud droplet size distributions and low liquid water contents are prevalent, enhancing the probability of snow crystal growth by diffusion.     

新疆乌鲁木齐地区冬季降水与云水酸度及其化学成分的初步观测分析

分析了乌鲁木齐地区冬季降雪和云水的pH值与化学成分。降雪pH值平均为5.7。云水pH值为4.0左右，与采集云水同时段观测的地面降雪pH值为6.0。气团内部生成的低云云水的离子浓度比系统性降水云高约两个量级。初步分析结果表明，雪增长的微物理过程和雪粒下降过程中所捕集的大气气溶胶粒子特性可能对降雪雪水酸度有重要影响。     

Remote and in situ measurements of aerosol concentration in the Arctic troposphere from the Yak-42D “Roshydromet” research aircraft

The results are presented of measurements of aerosol content at different heights in the Arctic troposphere in the area of Naryan-Mar city and the Yamal Peninsula on June 24, 2014 using in situ and remote instruments installed on the Yak-42D "Roshydromet" research aircraft. The maximum aerosol content was detected in the layer up to 3000 m, and the aerosol concentration in the troposphere over the Yamal Peninsula is higher than that in the area of Naryan-Mar by 100 times. The in situ aircraft instrument measured the number concentration of black carbon particles in the tropospheric aerosol. To identify the sources of aerosol in the Arctic troposphere during airborne measurements the air mass trajectory analysis was performed. Simulations were conducted using the TRACAO trajectory model and FLEXPART particle dispersion model. The possible contribution of long-range and local transport of industrial pollutants to the Arctic troposphere was analyzed. The air mass transport was simulated using the trajectory model. Model computations of aerosol concentration in the troposphere using the satellite data on the gas flaring incite that the high content of black carbon in the lower troposphere over the Yamal Peninsula was caused by its transfer from the oil-producing areas located on the adjoining territory of Russia. The contribution of long-range transport of pollutants from industrial enterprises in Western Europe to the Arctic area under study was insignificant in the period under consideration.     

北京延庆山区降雪云物理特征的垂直观测和数值模拟研究

基于风廓线雷达、云雷达、粒子谱仪、微波辐射计和自动站等垂直观测设备,结合中尺度数值模式WRF对2017年3月23~24日北京延庆海坨山地区的一次降雪过程进行了观测和数值模拟研究。研究结果表明:垂直探测仪器结合中尺度数值模式可以获得降雪的宏观结构和微物理信息,有助于对降雪的深入研究。此次降雪过程由中高层西南及偏南暖湿气流与低层东南偏冷空气交汇造成动力和水汽辐合抬升形成,4~5 km高度处的风切变有利于降雪的增强。上升气流有助于水汽的输送、冰雪转化以及雪晶凝华、聚合,冰晶数浓度中心对应着上升运动顶部。然而此次降雪云系低层过冷云水含量不足,降雪回波<20 dBZ,回波顶高<7 km,雪花垂直下落速度<2 m s-1,地面降水量大值与低层强回波区对应。降雪粒子谱分布范围较窄,以直径1 mm左右的小粒子为主,相态主要为干雪,基本不存在混合相态。     

南方两次相似降雪(雨)过程的对比研究

2006年2月中旬和下旬,长江三角洲一带分别发生降雪和降雨过程,预报过程中对降水形态的预报存在失误。通过对这两次过程的比较分析,期望为今后的预报中区分南方地区的固态降水和液态降水提供一定参考。得出以下一些主要结论:降雪过程高空槽前以偏西气流为主,环流较平;降水过程,槽前西南气流强盛,偏南分量明显。南方大雪的产生须由东北风回流产生的冷平流在华东一带形成冷中心,而北到西北风产生的冷平流降温往往因为降水与降温不同步,无法形成大雪。降雪过程开始前,850hPa附近存在干层,而降雨过程则是中低层都湿。逆温层和700～800hPa的温度对降水形态有重要影响。降雪过程结束时高层先变干,而降雨过程结束时是中层先变干。降雪过程,上空大气中冰雪区集中,含雪量和冰晶含量大值中心与降雪带位置相对应。降雨过程含雪量下界抬高,含雪量和冰晶含量大值中心落后于降雨带,并且南压过程中快速减弱,冰雪区分散。     

2005年12月3—21日山东半岛持续性暴雪特征及维持机制

利用多普勒雷达、卫星、常规观测资料及NCEP/NCAR再分析资料分析了2005年12月3—21日发生在山东半岛4次持续性冷流暴雪的特征及维持机制。结果表明:冬季强冷空气暴发南下时, 波状冷流云在渤海发展造成山东半岛暴雪, 暴雪具有明显的空间分布和强度的日变化特征; 多普勒雷达资料反映了暴雪回波PPI强度为35~40dBz, PPI径向速度图上反映低空急流和风辐合特征, RCS, VCS产品反映暴雪回波的垂直特征; 4次暴雪过程对应500hPa中高纬度欧亚上空为两涡一脊的建立和维持, θ_se时空演变反映4次强的干冷空气对应4次暴雪过程; 暴雪发生时南北风在渤海附近存在一弱的风区; 暴雪日水汽较非暴雪日充沛, 垂直上升运动和低层散度辐合与强降雪相对应; 暴雪日在渤海附近海面温度与850 hPa温度差大于20℃; 暴雪区为对流不稳定的大气层结。     

对流云对大气气溶胶和相对湿度变化响应的数值模拟

利用二维面对称分档云模式研究了气溶胶颗粒物浓度和尺度谱分布对混合相对流云微物理过程和降水的影响, 并重点讨论了气溶胶效应随环境相对湿度的变化。结果表明, 在初始热力和动力条件相同的情况下, 相对清洁的海洋性云在发展和成熟阶段能更有效地产生雨滴、 冰晶和霰粒, 形成更强的雷达反射率。随着气溶胶浓度增加, 比如在本文模拟的污染大陆性云中, 气溶胶粒子数浓度的增加限制云滴增长, 不利于降水粒子的形成。模拟结果也发现, 环境相对湿度对气溶胶效应有显著影响, 即当地面相对湿度从50%增大到70%时, 所模拟的云从浅对流泡发展为深对流云; 气溶胶对云微物理特性和降水的影响在干空气中较小, 但在湿空气中表现非常显著, 这与前人结果一致。随着相对湿度的增加, 冰相粒子出现的时间提前, 增长加快, 云砧范围扩大, 但相对来说, 降水起始时间对相对湿度的变化比气溶胶更敏感。     

山东半岛一次冷流暴雪过程的中尺度模拟与云微物理特征分析

本文以NCEP-FNL资料作为初始场和边界场,采用WRF中尺度模式对2010年12月29-30日发生在山东半岛的一次冷流暴雪过程进行数值模拟,并利用高时空分辨率模拟结果分析此次过程的中尺度特征和云微物理特征.模拟与分析结果表明,此次暴雪过程发生在较强的海气温差背景下,渤海海表对冷空气的增温增湿作用显著,通过湍流交换等作用向低层大气输送大量感热、潜热和水汽;水汽由渤海中部海域输送到山东半岛东北部地区,其上空水汽辐合层比较浅薄,集中在800 hPa以下,相对湿度饱和层和比湿高值维持的时间与强降雪时段一致;中尺度海岸锋的生消过程对冷流暴雪过程形成有着重要作用,水平方向上呈现为偏北风和偏西风的强辐合带,局地环流中的上升运动触发不稳定能量释放,直接决定暴雪的落区和强度,这是产生浅对流降雪的主要物理机制;云中水凝物粒子的高度在600 hPa以下,最大值出现在850～900 hPa之间与浅对流结构相对应;各水凝物粒子含量相差较大,以雪和霰最多.     

北京地区一次小雪天气过程造成路面交通严重受阻的成因分析

通过对2001年12月7日降雪天气过程与历史同期降雪过程的比较以及对降雪过程中不同物理介质路面温度变化的观测研究表明,"12·7"北京地区路面交通严重受阻是由于特殊的时间、特殊的城市和特定的路面状况等多种非气象因素与"落雪成冰"的气象环境条件共同作用造成的.这种气象环境条件的形成是由于降雪过程中,雪面、路面与近地面大气之间复杂的热量交换和相互影响的结果:降雪开始时,由于雪片的吸热作用,造成路面和紧贴地面的大气温度下降,而近地面层气温的下降,反过来造成路面温度进一步降低,在两者的共同作用下,地表落雪迅速形成冰面.冰面的反射作用又进一步加速了气温、尤其是近地面层气温的下降,不断降低的气温使得冰层硬度加强、厚度迅速增加.作者还通过天气诊断和数值模拟分析,对这次降雪天气过程的物理机制进行了简单的讨论,认为这次降雪天气很可能是由对流层中层快速移动的高空槽、地面弱倒槽和近地面层弱的偏东气流共同影响而产生的.     

一次山东半岛强降雪过程的天气学分析

利用天气学方法对2003年1月3—5日山东半岛北部地区的一次强降雪过程进行了分析。结果表明：强降雪发生前，山东半岛北部地区低层大气湿度增大；在有利的大尺度环流条件下，受暖海面的热力作用和地形抬升作用，产生中尺度海岸锋，中尺度海岸锋造成局地降雪的增强。     

Impacts of Aerosol Loading on Surface Precipitation from Deep Convective Systems over North Central Mongolia

The impacts of aerosol loading on surface precipitation from mid-latitude deep convective systems are examined using a bin microphysics model. For this, a precipitation case over north central Mongolia, which is a high-altitude inland region, on 21 August 2014 is simulated with aerosol number concentrations of 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, and 4800 cm^?3. The surface precipitation amount slightly decreases with increasing aerosol number concentration in the range of 150–600 cm^?3, while it notably increases in the range of 600–4800 cm^?3 (22% increase with eightfold aerosol loading). We attempt to explain why the surface precipitation amount increases with increasing aerosol number concentration in the range of 600–4800 cm^?3. A higher aerosol number concentration results in more drops of small sizes. More drops of small sizes grow through condensation while being transported upward and some of them freeze, thus increasing the mass content of ice crystals. The increased ice crystal mass content leads to an increase in the mass content of small-sized snow particles largely through deposition, and the increased mass content of small-sized snow particles leads to an increase in the mass content of large-sized snow particles largely through riming. In addition, more drops of small sizes increase the mass content of supercooled drops, which also leads to an increase in the mass content of large-sized snow particles through riming. The increased mass content of large-sized snow particles resulting from these pathways contributes to a larger surface precipitation amount through melting and collision-coalescence.     

The Thermodynamic Effects of Sublimating, Blowing Snow in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

A seasonal snowcover blankets much of Canada during wintertime. In such an environment, the frequency of blowing snow events is relatively high and can have important meteorological and hydrological impacts. Apart from the transport of snow, the thermodynamic impact of sublimating blowing snow in air near the surface can be investigated. Using a time or fetch-dependent blowing snow model named 'PIEKTUK' that incorporates prognostic equations for a spectrum of sublimating snow particles, plus temperature and humidity distributions, it is found that the sublimation of blowing snow can lead to temperature decreases of the order of 0.5 °C and significant water vapour increases in the near-surface air. Typical predicted snow removal rates due to sublimation of blowing snow are several millimetres snow water equivalent per day over open Arctic tundra conditions. The model forecast sublimation rates are most sensitive to humidity, as well as wind speed, temperature and particle distributions, with a maximum value in sublimation typically found approximately 1 km downstream from blowing snow initiation. This suggests that the sublimation process is self-limiting despite ongoing transport of snow by wind, yielding significantly lower values of blowing snow sublimation rates (nearly two-thirds less) compared to situations where the thermodynamic feedbacks are neglected. The PIEKTUK model may provide the necessary thermodynamic inputs or blowing snow parameterizations for mesoscale models, allowing the assessment of the contribution of blowing snow fluxes, in more complex situations, to the moisture budgets of high-latitude regions.     

Theoretical considerations on the mass and energy consistent treatment of precipitation in cloudy atmospheres

The purpose of this paper is to present a rigorous derivation of a model equation system for the mass and energy open precipitating atmosphere. The derivation is based on the treatment of the atmosphere in terms of three open thermodynamic subsystems consisting of cloudy air, rain water and snow, respectively. Each of the three subsystems moves with a different velocity as caused by the different fall velocities of rain and snow in comparison to the cloudy air.A basic assumption of the model consists in the neglect of the inertia terms in the momentum equation of the falling hydrometeors. It will be shown that this simplification yields additional source terms in the budget equations of the total momentum and the total kinetic energy of the system. However, the prognostic equations for the atmospheric wind field and the corresponding kinetic energy equation remain free of these source terms. The model equations strictly conserve the total mass and energy of the system. It is concluded that the combination of the barycentric velocity of the cloudy air and the total density of the system is the best choice to describe the time evolution of the atmospheric wind field.     

梅雨锋暴雨中云物理过程的观测和数值模拟

Cloud micro-physical structures in a precipitation system associated with the Meiyu front are observedusing the balloon-borne Precipitation Particle Image Sensor at Baoshan observatory station, Shanghaiduring June and July 1999. The vertical distributions of various cloud particle size, number density, andmass density are retrieved from the observations. Analyses of observations show that ice-phase particles(ice crystals, graupel, snowflakes, and frozen drops) often exist in the cloud of torrential rain associatedwith the Meiyu front. Among the various particles, ice crystals and graupel are the most numerous, butgraupel and snow have the highest mass density. Ice-phase particles coexist with liquid water dropletsnear the 0℃ level. The graupel is similarly distributed with height as the ice crystals. Raindrops belowthe 0℃ level are mainly from melted grauple, snowflakes and frozen drops. They may further grow largerby coalescence with smaller ones as they fall from the cloud base. Numerical simulations using the non-hydrostatic meso-scale model MM5 with the Reisner graupel explicit moisture scheme confirm the mainobservational results. Rain water at the lower level is mainly generated from the melting of snow andgraupel falling from the upper level where snow and graupel are generated and grown from collection withcloud and rain water. Thus the mixed-phase cloud process, in which ice phase coexists and interacts withliquid phase (cloud and rain drops), plays the most important role in the formation and development ofheavy convective rainfall in the Meiyu frontal system.     

“2.28”山东罕见“雷打雪”现象形成机制分析

利用各种常规观测资料、探空资料、T639模式资料和卫星云图,分析了2010年2月28日山东境内的一次罕见"雷打雪"过程。结果表明,此次过程是在有利的大尺度环流背景下产生的。西南暖湿气流强盛,对流层低层的低空急流不断向山东输送水汽和能量;同时,近低层冷空气的侵入,迫使暖湿空气沿冷空气爬升,触发不稳定能量释放,导致强对流天气发生。850hPa低涡及地面气旋的产生,使得气旋性辐合上升增强,加强了上升运动。随着近地层温度降到零度以下,雨转雪。降水过程后期,气旋向东北方向移动,造成鲁中和山东半岛的暴雪天气。卫星云图显示,MCC是造成此次强降水的直接原因。     

Charge separation during the fragmentation of rime and frost

In order to determine whether charge transfer during the collision of ice crystals with riming graupel pellets in thunderstorms may be due to the removal of charged growths on the graupel surface, experiments were performed in which an air jet removed forst or pieces of rime from ice surfaces. The results showed that a frost covered or rimed surface charged positively if it was growing by vapour diffusion and negatively if it was evaporating when the air jet fragmented the surface. Other work has shown that similar results are obtained when ice crystals or ice spheres interact with growing or evaporating ice surfaces and so it appears that the charge transfer process is associated with the removal of charged surface features. These results are of relevance to our understanding of the processes of thunderstorm electrification.     

2010年12月15日江西雨雪天气的微物理数值模拟分析

利用常规观测资料和中尺度数值模式WRF的输出产品,对2010年12月14—15日发生在江西的雨雪过程进行了分析。结果表明,微物理参数化方案输出的物理因子可以较好地揭示本次过程的雨雪转换;在雨转雪阶段,由于中低层冷空气南移较强,没有形成逆温,因此未能形成冻雨,而是由雨转为降雪天气。     

利用GRAPES模式研究气溶胶对云和降水过程的影响

在GRAPES中尺度模式的双参数微物理方案中加入了气溶胶活化参数化过程,实现了对云滴数浓度的预报。选取不同季节两个降水过程进行模拟,并分别开展了不同气溶胶背景下的两个试验进行对比分析,研究气溶胶对云和降水可能的影响。结果表明:气溶胶浓度增加后,因为活化产生了更多尺度较小的云滴,抑制了云雨的自动转化,使大气中滞留了更多的云水,暖云降水减小;另一方面,云水的增加会使冰相粒子,尤其是雪和霰通过碰并云水等过程而增大,最后融化成雨增加冷云降水,同时冰相粒子增加会释放更多的潜热,促进上升气流的发展,进一步增加冷云降水。气溶胶对降水的影响存在空间不一致性,暖云较厚的地方暖雨过程受到的抑制明显,使地面降水减小,冷云厚度相对较厚时,冷云降水的增加会大于暖云降水的抑制,使地面降水增加。同时由于在云降水发展的不同阶段冷暖云的变化,气溶胶对降水的影响也存在着时间不一致性。     

山东半岛典型冷涡暴雪个例对流云及风场特征的观测与模拟

利用卫星云图、 多普勒天气雷达资料、 常规观测资料和MM5模式模拟结果, 分析了2005年12月4日典型冷涡造成山东半岛暴雪的云带变化、 对流单体的生成与发展、 低空急流特征及雷达强回波带的变化特征。结果表明： 冬季冷涡携带强冷空气南下, 经过渤海暖湿下垫面后影响山东半岛时, 卫星云图上从渤海到山东半岛可以清楚地分析出造成暴雪的西南-东北向结构特征的横向云带; 雷达图上, 在渤海到山东半岛形成一强降雪回波带, PPI径向速度图上可清楚地分析出暴雪区的低空急流和中尺度对流的低空辐合, 雷达径向速度垂直剖面反映暴雪产生在零速度线附近和低空急流的存在; MM5模式模拟结果显示： 暴雪发生时山东半岛在1.5 km存在低空急流, 水平风的时间-高度垂直剖面反映暴雪发生时干冷空气经过暖湿的渤海海面在700 hPa以下出现暖平流, 垂直上升运动和散度的低层辐合、 高层辐散与雷达图像反映的强降雪回波是相对应的。