高空西风急流和低空南风急流中的冷锋环流

文中利用原始方程模式研究了不同背景风场中的冷锋环流，计算结果显示，对越锋非地转环流和锋区垂直运动起主要作用的是垂直于锋面的背景风场，沿锋的背景风场也有影响，但比前者小得多，后者产生的越锋非地转环流和上升速度也比前者弱得多；具有强垂直切变的西风急流更有利于在锋区产生强的越锋环流和大的上升速度；此外，越锋非地转环流还与Richardson数的小值区相联系。     

高、低空急流中的锢囚锋环流

利用原始方程模式探讨了高空西风急流和低空南风急流中锢囚锋环流的演变和增强机制。数值结果显示,在干大气中,高空西风急流的存在使锢囚锋非地转环流和锋区上升速度迅速变化、增强,并有利于重力内波的垂直传播;低空南风急流对锋区环流型的变化影响较大,但环流较为平直,对锋区上升速度的增强作用不大,产生的锋区速度比高空西风急流中小得多;高低空急流的同时存在,对锢囚锋环流的作用比较复杂,其影响比高低空急流各自作用的     

不同形式的加热对冷锋环流影响的数值研究

利用原始方程模式对３种加热形式影响冷锋环流的情形作了数值计算，结果显示，大尺度凝结潜热释放对冷锋非地转环流和锋区垂直运动的影响最大，使之明显增强，它有可能在短时间内使冷锋暧区中产生强的暴雨系统，积云对流加热也能使锋面环流增强，但影响较小；感热加热增强冷锋环流，而且可能是锋区多重雨带产生的一种驱动因子。     

大气层结对冷锋环流的影响

利用原始方程模式讨论了不同大气层结对冷锋环流的影响及其在激发锋区中尺度强对流系统中的作用，结果表明：层结对锋区环流有非常大的影响，随层结稳定度的减小，锋区非地转越锋环流和上升运动迅速增强，锋前暖区有可能产生中尺度强对流和多重中尺度上升运动带，并有利于对称不稳定的激发；层结对冷锋环流的影响和锋区中尺度强对流系统形成的作用主要由中低层的大气层结状态决定     

变形场锋生条件下斜压锋区上对称波包的发展

文中用 WKBJ方法讨论了叠加在 Hoskins- Bretherton( 1 972 )变形场锋生模型背景上对称斜压波包的发展问题。在锋区斜压气流对称稳定的条件下 ( F2 N2 - M2 =q>0 ) ,大尺度变形场强迫、锋生环流的作用及锋生过程引起的稳定度参数 ( F2 ,N2 ,M2 )的个别变化也会对对称扰动的发展产生作用 ,变形场锋生和锋区环流的上升支下方有利于对称扰动发展 ,而锋区附近非地转垂直切变和稳定度参数的变化对扰动的影响则与对称扰动的结构有关。     

华东地区6-7月锋生的气候学特征及环流结构

利用中国华东地区212个站点2000-2010年6-7月逐日降水资料和NCEP/NACR再分析资料,运用运动学锋生函数公式,分析了华东地区6-7月锋生、锋面及其环流结构的气候学特征。结果表明,锋生函数值在华东区域呈现不均匀分布,且不同性质的运动学锋生具有不同的锋生强度和分布。其中,江淮地区是6-7月综合锋生最强的区域。根据风场在850 hPa强锋生带的切变及辐合情况,将6-7月的锋生类型分成4个大类,即暖切变型锋生、冷切变型锋生、西风辐合型锋生、东风辐合型锋生,其中,冷切变型锋生又分为两个亚类。不同类型的锋生个例数不同,江淮地区最多的是暖切变型锋生。不同锋面的水平结构与垂直结构存在显著差异,但对于强锋生过程,340 K假相当位温等值线与锋区平行且穿过锋区,其对判断强锋生过程和锋区位置具有指示意义。强锋生事件的出现有其大尺度环流背景,而不同类型的强锋生事件的环流背景差异较大:背景气旋或反气旋环流的中心位置、强度、辐散辐合场的分布、垂直环流结构等方面有不同程度的差异。降水与锋生强度紧密相关。锋生较强时,降水较多。暖切变型锋生日降水量最大,降水发生在锋区内部,与强锋生带走向一致;冷切变型次,两种类型的降水均发生在锋区的南侧,呈东北—西南走向;西风辐合再次之,降水发生在锋区内部偏南一侧。     

1996年我国南方地区异常低温形成原因的分析

1996年春季我国南方地区发生连续三个月的气温显著负距平，最大负距平区均出现在西南地区东部。本文分析了形成持续低温、阴雨的异常环流条件及其可能原因。指出前冬至初春欧亚地区极锋锋区偏南稳定；高纬多阻塞形势；南亚暖空气活跃是其基本环流特征。而前冬至初春欧洲及亚洲西部严寒多雪，青藏高原及南亚次大陆持续偏暖以及极地地区的暖空气稳定控制，是形成上述环流特征的基本原因．     

高低空急流和水汽凝结过程对锢囚锋环流演变的影响

文中利用包括湍流摩擦耗散的原始方程模式研究了高空西风急流、低空南风急流和水汽凝结过程对锢囚锋环流时间演变和降水强度变化的影响 ,计算结果表明 ,水汽凝结过程与高空西风急流或低空南风急流的共同作用对锢囚锋环流的演变起非常重要的作用 ,能在锢囚锋区形成强中尺度深对流系统 ,与干大气中高空西风急流对锢囚锋环流的作用远大于低空南风急流的情况相反 ,在存在水汽凝结过程的湿大气中 ,低空南风急流对锢囚锋的影响远大于高空西风急流 ,它产生的降水过程时间更长 ,降水强度更大 ,降水范围更广 ,是锢囚锋区产生强中尺度降水的重要因子。     

梅雨锋生次级环流对暴雨的作用

本文采用了MM4中尺度数值模式对1991年7月5日08时至6日20时发生在江淮流域的梅雨锋暴雨过程进行了模拟。在模拟较理想的基础上，利用模式输出的高分辨率的动力协调资料，就暴雨过程中锋生次级环流各强迫项对暴雨的作用进行了诊断研究。结果表明：锋生次级环流对暴雨形成具有重要的作用，但在暴雨过程不同时期各项的作用差异很大。     

北京地区一次回流暴雪过程的锋区特征分析

利用常规观测、加密自动站观测和NCEP再分析资料,以及风廓线雷达、微波辐射计观测的精细风场、温度和湿度资料,对2009年11月9日夜间北京地区的一次回流暴雪天气过程的锋区特征进行了详细分析。结果表明,该过程的主要影响系统为华北锢囚锋和中高层短波槽,与锢囚锋联系的中低空暖湿空气在回流干冷空气上爬升造成锋生,是北京地区出现暴雪的主要原因。北京地区锋区的坡度较小,锋区下半层存在明显逆温。逆温强度可以指示冷暖交汇程度,从而与降雪强度存在相关关系,地形对逆温的分布和强度有一定的影响。低层东北风与中高层西南气流形成了明显的风垂直切变和温度差异,动力锋生机制发挥了重要作用,其产生的锋面次级环流直接促进了中尺度系统的发展。锋区存在层结不稳定,锋面抬升和次级环流促进了对流的发展,从而导致高架雷暴的产生。     

The roles of different mechanisms related to the tide-induced fronts in the Yellow Sea in summer

In summer, the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass （YSCWM） is a stable water mass of low temperature lying at the bottom of the central Yellow Sea （YS）. It is fringed by some typical tidal fronts, which separate deep, stratified water on the offshore side from the well-mixed, shallow water on the inshore side. Three striking fronts--Subei Bank Front （SBF）, Shandong Peninsula Front （SPF）, and Mokpo Front （MKF; a front off the southwestern tip of the Korean Peninsula）--have been iden- tified by various studies from both satellite observations and model results. Tide plays an important role in the formation and maintenance of these fronts. However, it is still a matter of debate as to the roles these two kinds of mechanisms of upwelling and tidal mixing play, and how importance they are in the maintenance processes of the above three fronts. Basing a nested high-resolution model HYCOM （the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model）, this study focuses on the different mechanisms of tidal effects on the thermal fronts in the YS in summertime. Through comparative experiments with and without tidal forcing, the results indicate that the MKF is mainly driven by tide-induced upwelling. For the SPF, tidal mixing is the dominant factor, when lower cold water is stirred upwards along the sloping topography of the western YS. Meanwhile, the combined effect of upwelling and tidal mixing is the main cause of the formation of the SBF. Diagnostic analysis of thermal balance shows that horizontal nonlinear advection induced by strong tidal currents also contributes to the thermal balance of frontal areas.     

Fronts and the boundary layer – some numerical studies

In this paper, we consider boundary-layer effects on atmospheric fronts. For this purpose we developed a dry, hydrostatic, two-dimensional numerical model with turbulence parameterized with the 1/2 -order eddy viscosity closure of Mellor and Yamada. In the surface layer we use Monin–Obukhov similarity and there is an interactive soil model to obtain lower boundary conditions for the atmospheric model. First, effects of turbulence are studied without thermal forcing at the surface and comparisons are made between inviscid and turbulent conditions. Sensitivity studies with respect to surface roughness are also performed. Subsequently we study effects of surface thermal forcing on fronts. The results show that, during summer, fronts display strong diurnal variation. Vertical velocities increase significantly during the day while gradients in temperature and vorticity across the front strengthen in the evening and at night. In winter the diurnal variation is much less pronounced. We attempt to find physical mechanisms responsible for such frontal behaviour and we compare our results with available observations.     

Density fronts in the vicinity of a long ridge

Laboratory experiments concerning the nature of density fronts in a two-layer fluid in the vicinity of a continuous ridge were conducted. The experiments were carried out in a circular rotating test cell containing an annular ridge of uniform cross-section. The density fronts were established by releasing a lighter fluid contained in a bottomless cylinder in the interior of the region defined by the topography into a heavier fluid occupying the rest of the test cell. The system was also equipped with an oscillating plunger located along the test cell axis to produce simulated tidal currents impinging in the normal direction on the ridge; experiments without and with tidal forcing were conducted. The governing parameters for the physical system considered are the Rossby, temporal Rossby, Burger and Ekman numbers and geometrical parameters. It is found that for both the non-forced and tidally forced experiments the fronts were stabilized by the ridge. The fronts in the simulated tidal currents experiments were found to advect radially outward more rapidly at early times than their non-forced counterparts; at large times, the temporal evolution of the front for these forced experiments approached that of the non-forced experiments. In the region interior to the annular ridge, the motion field is highly baroclinic, while outside this region, the flow response at the forcing frequency is barotropic. Scaling arguments regarding frontal position, viscous decay and barotropic oscillatory flow responses are advanced and supported by experimental observations.     

Submesoscale fronts observed by satellites over the Northern South China Sea shelf

Fronts are ubiquitous dynamic processes in the ocean, which play a significant role in the ocean dynamical and ecological environments. In this paper strong temperature fronts are investigated on the shelf of the Northern South China Sea using high resolution satellite data. These fronts have large horizontal gradients exceeding 1 °C km⁻¹ with spatial scales around several kilometers. The fronts generate meanders and eddies due to baroclinic instability, since these instabilities have spatial scales around the local first baroclinic mode deformation radius. The estimated Rossby number of the fronts is O(0.4), suggesting that the fronts tend to be ageostrophic and show submesoscale features. The Finite Size Lyapunov Exponent analysis of the generation mechanism indicates that the fronts are tightly related to the combined flow straining of geostrophic and Ekman currents.     

湍流高阶矩模式中的参数研究

该文为高阶矩湍流方程组的二阶矩闭合方案提供了参数组选择。此参数组是用近地层实测资料结合湍流方程二阶矩闭合方案推算出的。然后，将其与Mellor等人在实验室所得的参数组分别代入湍流二阶矩闭合方程组拟合，得动量(ΦM(ξ))、热量(ΦH(ξ))与稳定度(ξ)的二组关系曲线，可见此二组曲线几乎重合，且与Businger野外近地层实测结果符合较好。拟合的垂直速度方差((W*2)1/2(ξ))、温度方差((θ*2)1/2(ξ))与ξ的二组关系曲线相对于UTAH资料，所得曲线偏差比Mellor曲线偏差小得多，而相对于KANSAS资料，所得曲线偏差稍大于Mellor曲线。     

A turbulent energy model for geophysical flows

A simple turbulent flow model for geophysical flows is presented, which is based on the transport equation for turbulent energy and on algebraic expressions relating the Reynolds stress and turbulent heat flux to the velocity and temperature gradients. The model, which is similar to the 2.5 level closure model of Mellor and Yamada, includes constraints based on the realizability conditions as well as expressions for the length scale which account for the influence of stratification and the Coriolis acceleration. The model is shown to reproduce satisfactorily the main features of existing laboratory measurements of stress-induced and convective turbulent entrainment in stratified flows.     

Secular Trends in Tidal Parameters along the Coast of Japan

The secular trends for local tidal datums, tide ranges, and tidal harmonic constituents at 13 tidal gauge stations located along the coast of Japan were analyzed in this study. The general trends for mean higher high water (MHHW), mean high water (MHW), diurnal tide range (DTR), mean tide range (MTR), and relative mean sea level (RMSL) were positive, and for mean lower low water (MLLW) and mean low water (MLW) the trends were negative. The variation patterns were largest at Kushiro and Ofunato stations, both located in the open waters of the North Pacific Ocean. The tidal datums and tide ranges remained fairly stable at the Hakodate station, and an opposite trend was observed at the Maisaka station. The analysis of tidal harmonic constituents revealed a less pronounced pattern. The most distinct trend was observed for the M₂ amplitude, which appears to be negative at a majority of the stations. The largest decrease in the M₂ amplitude was observed at Kushimoto and Mera stations, also located in the open waters of the North Pacific Ocean. The negative trend is attributed to decreasing water depths at these stations, owing to small-scale local processes.     

Influences of Tidal Fronts on Coastal Winds Over an Inland Sea

A regional numerical model of the atmosphere was applied to an inland sea, the Seto Inland Sea in Japan, to study the influence of sea-surface temperature (SST) variations, accompanied by a tidal front, on the coastal winds in summer when tidal fronts fully develop. After confirmation of the model performance, two sensitivity simulations, which used spatially uniform SST with the highest and lowest values over the study area, were performed. The control and sensitivity simulations show that the mean wind speeds were apparently reduced by the low SST and the SST gradient accompanying the tidal front. The comparison of the terms in the momentum equations in control and sensitivity simulations indicates that the change of the perturbation pressure gradient force with the SST gradient is the most important factor in the modification of near-surface winds with SST variations. When the air flows across a tidal front, the air cools over the low SST area and warms over the high SST area. Consequently, the surface perturbation pressure increases over the low SST area and decreases over the high SST area. This adjustment in surface perturbation pressure produces an additional pressure gradient force with direction from the low SST area to the high SST area that decelerates the surface wind in the area upwind of the tidal front and accelerates the surface wind downwind of the tidal front.