海温异常对台风形成的影响

本文利用地球流体力学实验室(GFDL)的低分辨气候模式进行数值试验,以研究海温异常对台风形成的影响.试验采用恒定8月气候条件和海表温度(SST).海温异常(SSTA)被置于北太平洋不同区域.结果表明,台风生成频率在暖SSTA区明显增加.这是由于暖SSTA区低层辐合的增强一方面使低空气旋式环流和高空反气旋式环流加大,另一方面导致低层水汽向该区辐合,使潜热释放加强,对流加剧所致.此一机制被用于解释台风频率和ENSO事件的相关.在冷ENSO年份,西北和西南太平洋台风增多不仅是由于赤道东太平洋SST异常冷,还与西太平洋SST异常暖有关.     

9012号热带气旋登陆后维持不消的动力机制

分析了影响南海的几类台风路径所对的２００ｈＰａ辐散风场和速度热场的特征,发现２００ｈＰａ辐散风场对台风路径有一定的制约作用。主要体现在：（１）２００ｈＰａ辐散风场表征的季风环流结构的差异决定着台风路径扣期趋势;（２）西太平洋副高所对应的辐散风次级辐台线的走向和西伸程度指示着信风特征,影响台风未来的路径;（３）台风一般向辐散中心以外的次级辐散线西侧２个经距的位置移动,用辐散风环流的物理意义和台风受环     

双台风“纳沙”和“海棠”登陆后强度变化成因及对比分析

利用NCEP（National Centers for Environmental Prediction）再分析资料对2017年双台风“纳沙”（1709）和“海棠”（1710）先后登陆福建后的强度变化特征进行对比分析。结果表明：低纬水汽输送的强弱变化是造成双台风强度变化的主要原因,而越赤道气流对水汽输送起到关键作用。副热带西风急流与中低空风场强弱变化一致,西风急流增强伴随中低空东风加强是“海棠”陆上强度维持不减的原因之一,反之“纳沙”快速减弱。双台风效应对强度变化也起着重要作用：双台风靠近相吸作用下,“纳沙”残余环流卷入“海棠”环流中,为其输送正涡度因子及斜压能量,也是促使“海棠”强度维持的原因。台风登陆后,其上空三种不同层差的垂直风切变值表现一致减小的变化趋势及低于6 m·s^-1的风切,有利于弱台“海棠”陆上长久维持。海岸锋生及海表通量动热力因子对“海棠”右侧中小尺度对流发展和维持起到重要作用,加剧了“海棠”非对称性结构,促使“海棠”强度维持不减。     

First report of turtle tracks from the Lower Cretaceous of Korea

A partial trackway of a turtle from the Jinju Formation (Sindong Group) is the first report of Mesozoic turtle tracks from Korea and the first report of traces of an aquatic tetrapod from Korea. Six tracks show a partial trackway configuration inferred to represent a partially buoyant trackmaker, possibly engaged in “bottom walking” behavior. Although turtle tracks often co-occur with crocodylian tracks in Cretaceous coastal plain facies in other regions, especially North America, to date there are no such co-occurrences in east Asia. This suggests that in Asia paleoenvironments suitable for turtles were quite widespread, but paleoenvironments were not suitable for crocodylians.     

K-MEANS CLUSTERING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF THE NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC TROPICAL CYCLONE TRACKS

Based on the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) best-track dataset between 1965 and 2009 and the characteristic parameters including tropical cyclone (TC) position, intensity, path length and direction, a method for objective classification of the Northwestern Pacific tropical cyclone tracks is established by using K-means Clustering. The TC lifespan, energy, active season and landfall probability of seven clusters of tropical cyclone tracks are comparatively analyzed. The characteristics of these parameters are quite different among different tropical cyclone track clusters. From the trend of the past two decades, the frequency of the western recurving cluster (accounting for 21.3% of the total) increased, and the lifespan elongated slightly, which differs from the other clusters. The annual variation of the Power Dissipation Index (PDI) of most clusters mainly depended on the TC intensity and frequency. However, the annual variation of the PDI in the northwestern moving then recurving cluster and the pelagic west-northwest moving cluster mainly depended on the frequency.     

THE DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE TRACK AND PRECIPITATION OF TYPHOON “RANANIM” AFTER LANDFALL

1 INTRODUCTIONOver the past few years, landfall and track,intensity, sustaining mechanisms of tropical cyclones(hereafter TCs) and associated weather changes havebecome heated topics of research. From the viewpointsof energy transformation, moisture transfer, mid-latitude baroclinic frontal zones and ambient windfields,Chen et al.[1] Le et al.[2] and Zeng et al.[3] studiedthe sustaining mechanism of TCs that have madelandfall. Li et al.[4] also pointed out that theintensification of TC…     

Relationships between the North Pacific Oscillation and the typhoon/hurricane frequencies

Relationships between the North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) and the typhoon as well as hurricane fre-quencies are documented. The correlation between NPO index in June-July-August-September and the annual typhoon number in the western North Pacific is 0.37 for the period of 1949―1998. The NPO is correlated with the annual hurricane number in the tropical Atlantic at -0.28 for the same period. The variability of NPO is found to be concurrent with the changes of the magnitude of vertical zonal wind shear, sea-level pressure patterns, as well as the sea surface temperature, which are physically asso- ciated with the typhoons and hurricanes genesis. The NPO associated atmospheric circulation vari- ability is analyzed to explain how NPO is linked with variability of the tropical atmospheric circulation in the western Pacific and the tropical Atlantic, via the atmospheric teleconnection.     

Mesozoic thermal history of the Prebetic continental margin (southern Spain): Constraints from apatite fission-track analysis

Apatite fission-track analysis was applied to Triassic and Cretaceous sediments from the South-Iberian Continental Margin to unravel its thermal history. Apatite fission-track age populations from Triassic samples indicate partial annealing and point to a maximum temperature of around 100–110 °C during their post-depositional evolution. In certain apatites from Cretaceous samples, two different fission-track age populations of 93–99 and around 180 Ma can be distinguished. Track lengths associated with these two populations enabled thermal modelling based on experimental annealing and mathematical algorithms. These thermal models indicate that the post-depositional thermal evolution attained temperatures ≤ 70 °C, which is consistent with available vitrinite-reflectance data. Thermal modelling for the Cretaceous samples makes it possible to decipher a succession of cooling and heating periods, consisting of (a) a late Carboniferous–Permian cooling followed by (b) a progressive heating episode that ended approximately 120 Ma at a maximum T of around 110 °C. The first cooling episode resulted from a combination of factors such as: the relaxation of the thermal anomaly related to the termination of the Hercynian cycle; the progressive exhumation of the Hercynian basement and the thermal subsidence related to the rifting of the Bay of Biscay, reactivated during the Late Permian. Jurassic thermal evolution deduced from the inherited thermal signal in the Cretaceous sediments is characterized by progressive heating that ended around 120 Ma. This heating episode is related to thermal subsidence during Jurassic rifting, in agreement with the presence of abundant mantle-derived tholeiitic magmas interbedded in the Jurassic rocks. The end of the Jurassic rifting is well marked by a cooling episode apparently starting during Neocomiam times and ending at surface conditions by Albian times.     

0216号台风(森拉克)路径分析

针对0216号台风(森拉克)的移动路径，应用MM5对其路径进行模拟，结合GMS逐时的云图资料和其他观测资料，分析其移动路径变化的原因。分析发现，当台风进入弱环境场后，台风东部的热带中尺度低涡与台风互相作用，产生了藤源效应，使台风向西南方向移动；台湾岛地形、沿海槽和台风东侧的新生高压脊是使台风再次向西北移动的主要原因。这些结果对以后类似的台风预报有一定的参考价值。     

西北太平洋地区台风环境场的预估研究

本文择优选取了国际耦合模式比较计划第五阶段（CMIP5）中19个气候模式的试验数据，预估了RCP4.5和RCP8.5典型浓度路径情景下21世纪末（2080～2099年）西北太平洋地区（0°～40°N，100°E～180°）台风环境场和台风生成潜力指数（I_GP）变化。结果表明，相对于1986～2005年参考时段，21世纪末西北太平洋海洋表面温度（SST）增加，垂直风切变（VWS）和向外长波辐射（OLR）均在其与台风频数呈显著负相关的区域减少，有利于台风生成和发展；由大陆向南海延伸的低压系统减弱，不利于台风活动。总体上，在RCP8.5情景下台风环境场的变化较RCP4.5情景相对更大。利用信噪比进一步考察了模式间差异性，SST变化的信噪比在大部分地区大于3.0，在低压系统控制区海平面气压变化的信噪比大于1.0，模式间一致性较好；对于VWS和OLR，信噪比小于0.6，模式间差异较大；但在与台风频数显著负相关的地区，对OLR变化方向的模拟在模式间高度一致。与以上环境场变化相对应，未来西北太平洋I_GP显著增加。