Characteristics of the heat island effect in Shanghai and its possible mechanism

The characteristics of the urban heat island effect and the climate change in Shanghai and its possible mechanism are analyzed based on monthly meteorological data from 1961 to 1997 at 16 stations in Shanghai and its adjacent areas. The results indicate that Shanghai City has the characteristics of a heat island of air temperature and maximum and minimum air temperature, a cold island of surface soil temperature, a weak rainy island of precipitation, and a turbid island of minimum visibility and aerosols, with centers at or near Longhua station (the urban station of Shanghai). Besides theses, the characteristics of a cloudy island and sunshine duration island are also obvious, but their centers are located in the southern part of the urban area and in the southern suburbs. A linear trend analysis suggests that all of the above urban effects intensified from 1961 to 1997. So far as the heat island effect is concerned, the heat island index (difference of annual temperature between Longhua and Songjiang stations) strengthens (weakens) as the economic development increases (decreases). The authors suggest that the heating increase caused by increasing energy consumption due to economic development is a main factor in controlling the climate change of Shanghai besides natural factors. On the other hand, increasing pollution aerosols contribute to the enhancement of the turbid island and cooling. On the whole, the heating effect caused by increasing energy consumption is stronger than the cooling effect caused by the turbid island and pollution aerosols.     

东亚副热带季风特征及其指数的建立

基于大气对流活动和非绝热加热的分析,给出东亚夏季风区域变化特征,客观地确定东亚副热带季风及热带季风对流强度,并由此建立其与大尺度季风环流的内在联系,提出分别用所对应区域经向风垂直切变来构造季风指数.对比分析显示,上述季风指数在反映夏季环流和降水等方面效果显著,能很好地刻划东亚夏季风强度.同时指出,东亚副热带季风指数与西太平洋副热带高压及长江中下游降水密切相关,在空间场上表现出东亚/太平洋型(EAP型)遥相关特征.高指数年副高偏南,长江中下游为涝;低指数年则相反.     

偏振雷达观测强对流雹暴云

根据偏振雷达原理,用C波段双线偏振天气雷达观测得到4例强对流雹暴演变过程的水平反射率ZH(dBZ)和差分反射率ZDR(dB)垂直剖面RHI定量回波资料,分析了这些雹云不同演变阶段的回波参量和偏振特性的关系,说明ZH、ZDR双参量对判别降雹有着明显优势,用雨滴谱的ZH-ZDR分布边界关系对这些雹云回波进行判别降雹分析,给出我国用偏振雷达观测和识别冰雹的研究结果。     

THE ROLE OF TROPICAL CONVECTION IN VARIATION OF INTRASEASONAL TELECONNECTIONS OF TROPICAL AND EXTRATROPICAL CIRCULATIONS

Based on ECMWF objective analysis data, the relationships between tropical convective activi-ties and extratropical circulation, as well as the low frequency kinetic energy, have been investigat-ed by making use of diagnostic analysis methods on the intraseasonal time scale in winters of 1983/1984 and 1986/1987. From this study, it is found that the different intensities of the tropical con-vective activities may bring about both the different intraseasonal teleconnection wave trains be-tween the tropics and the extratropics and the different dispersions of the low frequency wave ener-gy. Moreover, the tropical convection can be an important junction factor for the teleconnection ef-fect of the tropical and extratropical circulations on the intraseasonal time scale.     

一种强对流天气短期预报方法的研究和试报

通过对上海地区１９７６－１９９０年强对流天气个例的统计分析以及对典型个例成因机制的剖析，提出了一种强对流天气的短期预报方法，即θｓｅ特型法。它能预示强对流天气层结的不稳定特征和高能量。为了提高预报时效和减少空报率，引入了引发机制和排空机制。     

GENERATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF MESOSCALE CLOUD ON HEAVY RAIN BELT ON THE PERIPHERY OF TYPHOON 9608 (Herb)

Typhoon-induced heavy rains are mostly studied from the viewpoint of upper-level westerly troughs. It is worthwhile to probe into a case where the rain is caused by tropical cyclone system, which is much heavier. During August 3 ~ 5, 1996, an unusually heavy rainstorm happened in the southwest of Hebei province. It was caused by 3 mesoscale convective cloud clusters on the periphery of a tropical cyclone other than the direct effects of a westerly trough. Generating in a weak baroclinic environment that is unstable with high energy, the cloud clusters were triggered off for development by unstable ageostrophic gravity waves in the low-level southeast jet stream on the periphery of the typhoon. There was a vertical circulation cell with horizontal scale close to 1000 km between the rainstorm area and westerly trough in northeast China. As shown in a computation of the Q vector of frontogenesis function, the circulation cell forms a mechanism of transforming energy between the area of interest and the westerly trough system farther away in northeast China. Study of water vapor chart indicates that high-latitude troughs in the northeast portion of the rain migrate to the southeast to enhance anti-cyclonic divergence in upper-level convection over the area of heavy rain and cause rain clusters, short-lived otherwise, to develop vigorously. It is acting as an amplifier in this case of unusually strong process of rain.     

多源遥感影像的去云层处理

针对多源遥感影像的云覆盖问题，提出了利用多项式改正算法，以实现不同遥感影像之间的局部影像替换，从而满足去除目标影像上云覆盖的要求。     

青藏高原上中尺度对流系统(MCS)的数值模拟

A mesoscale convective system (MCS) developing over the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau on 26 July 1995 issimulated using the fifth version of the Penn State-NCAR nonhydrostatic mesoscale model (MM5). Theresults obtained are inspiring and are as follows. (1) The model simulates well the largescale conditionsin which the MCS concerned is embedded, which are the well-known anticyclonic Qinghai-Xizang PlateauHigh in the upper layers and the strong thermal forcing in the lower layers. In particular, the modelcaptures the meso-α scale cyclonic vortex associated with the MCS, which can be analyzed in the 500 hPaobservational winds; and to some degree, the model reproduces even its meso-β scale substructure similarto satellite images, reflected in the model-simulated 400 hPa rainwater. On the other hand, there aresome distinct deficiencies in the simulation; for example, the simulated MCS occurs with a lag of 3 hoursand a westward deviation of 3-5° longitude. (2) The structure and evolution of the meso-α scale vortexassociated with the MCS are undescribable for upper-air sounding data. The vortex is confined to thelower troposphere under 450 hPa over the plateau and shrinks its extent with height, with a diameter of4° longitude at 500 hPa. It is within the updraft area, but with an upper-level anticyclone and downdraftover it. The vortex originates over the plateau, and does not form until the mature stage of the MCS. Itlasts for 3-6 hours. In its processes of both formation and decay, the change in geopotential height fieldis prior to that in the wind field. It follows that the vortex is closely associated with the thermal effectsover the plateau. (3) A series of sensitivity experiments are conducted to investigate the impact of varioussurface thermal forcings and other physical processes on the MCS over the plateau. The results indicatethat under the background conditions of the upper-level Qinghai-Xizang High, the MCS involved is mainlydominated by the low-level thermal forcing. The simulation described here is a good indication that itmay be possible to reproduce the MCS over the plateau under certain large-scale conditions and with theincorporation of proper thermal physics in the lower layers.     

对引发密云泥石流的局地暴雨的分析和诊断

2002年8月1日晚北京东北部密云县发生了降雨量达到280.2 mm的局地短历时特大暴雨，并引发了洪水和泥石流。卫星云图分析表明，它是由一个中-β尺度对流系统在北京北部山区停留造成的。TBB图的等值线密集区和上冲云顶对暴雨落区有指示意义。大尺度环流诊断表明，暴雨前一天存在较深厚的下沉运动，其伴随的逆温层抑制对流的发生，使不稳定能量得以积累。各种稳定参数的计算结果证实了这一能量的积累过程。暴雨当天，下沉运动转为微弱的上升运动，使对流的发生成为可能。大尺度水汽场的诊断表明，北京处在西太平洋副热带高压边缘的高温高湿气流的控制下，有很强的水汽输送。地面中尺度分析表明，中尺度低压和辐合线是对流的触发系统，北京地区北部处于中尺度低压东部暖湿气流的辐合区中，在有利的地形条件下使密云县西部山区产生了局地特大暴雨。     

区域气候模拟中Betts-Miller对流参数化方案的敏感性试验

利用NCAR RegCM2气候模式,对Betts-Miller对流参数化方案中影响参考态的几个关键性参数:稳定度参数α、云底和冻结层参考态的饱和气压Δp*和对流调整时间τ进行了敏感性试验,分析这些参数的不同取值对区域气候模拟的影响及意义,并由此提出适合我国东部地区汛期区域气候模拟的Betts-Miller对流参数化方案中较优的关键性参数取值.