2012年“苏拉”和“达维”双台风影响的近海风暴潮过程

作为影响我国沿海的主要自然灾害之一,台风风暴潮的产生和影响机制与防灾减灾息息相关。双台风引起的风暴潮因台风强度、路径等相对关系复杂多变,目前双台风相互作用下的风暴潮研究还不充分。采用参数化台风模型对2012年典型双台风"苏拉"和"达维"的风场、气压场过程进行了模拟与融合,并采用ELCIRC模型对双台风作用下的风暴潮过程进行了模拟。引入单台风单独作用的假设算例,探讨了双台风之间对增水、流场的相互影响和影响区域。研究结果表明,虽然两个台风登陆强度相当,但台风"达维"在海州湾海域引起的增水要远大于"苏拉"在台湾、福建海域引起的增水。风暴潮引起的增水及流速变化与台风在海表的风应力密切相关,较大变化幅值分布在台风行进路径的右侧。与台风单独作用时相比,台风"苏拉"与"达维"引起的风暴潮增水与流速变化在两者相互作用下均有所削弱,其中"苏拉"引起的风暴潮受到的影响更大。双台风风暴潮之间的非线性效应在不同区域的强度存在差异,在台风"苏拉"主要影响区域内非线性效应较强,其他区域则相对较弱。以上结果表明产生风暴潮较弱的台风一方对气象环境敏感性更高,风暴潮的响应更显著。     

Track analysis and storm surge investigation of 2017 Typhoon Hato: were the warning signals issued in Macau and Hong Kong timed appropriately?

ABSTRACT

This study investigates the storm surge caused by Typhoon Hato, which severely affected Macau, Hong Kong, and other coastal cities in China on 23 August 2017. A typhoon and storm surge coupling model demonstrated that the maximum storm surge height reached nearly 2.5?m along the coast of Macau, while that in Hong Kong was slightly below 2?m. Furthermore, a field survey of urban flooding revealed evidence of a 2.25-m inundation in downtown Macau and a 0.55-m inundation on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, which were likely exacerbated by a combination of storm surge, heavy rainfall, and surface water runoff over a complex hilly terrain. Significant wave overtopping and runup also occurred in beach and port areas. A typhoon track analysis confirmed that several comparably strong typhoons have followed similar ESE to WNW trajectories and made landfall in the Pearl River Delta in the last few decades. Although Hato was not the strongest of these storms, its forward speed of about 32.5?km/h was remarkably faster than those of other comparable typhoons. Higher levels of storm signal warnings were issued earlier in Hong Kong than in Macau, raising questions about the appropriate timing of warnings in these two nearby areas. Our analysis of the storm’s pattern suggests that both regions’ decisions regarding signal issuance could be considered reasonable or at least cannot be simply blamed, given the rapid motion and intensification of Hato and the associated economic risks at stake.     

Tropical cyclones and polar lows: Velocity,size, and energy scales,and relation to the 26°C cyclone origin criteria

The goal of this paper is to quantitatively formulate some necessary conditions for the development of intense atmospheric vortices. Specifically, these criteria are discussed for tropical cyclones (TC) and polar lows (PL) by using bulk formulas for fluxes of momentum, sensible heating, and latent heating between the ocean and the atmosphere. The velocity scale is used in two forms: (1) as expressed through the buoyancy flux b and the Coriolis parameter l_c for rotating fluids convection, and (2) as expressed with the cube of velocity times the drag coefficient through the formula for total kinetic energy dissipation in the atmospheric boundary layer. In the quasistationary case the dissipation equals the generation of the energy. In both cases the velocity scale can be expressed through temperature and humidity differences between the ocean and the atmosphere in terms of the reduced gravity, and both forms produce quite comparable velocity scales. Using parameters b and l_c, we can form scales of the area and, by adding the mass of a unit air column, a scale of the total kinetic energy as well. These scales nicely explain the much smaller size of a PL, as compared to a TC, and the total kinetic energy of a TC is of the order 10¹⁸-10¹⁹ J. It will be shown that wind of 33 m s^-1 is produced when the total enthalpy fluxes between the ocean and the atmosphere are about 700 W m^-2 for a TC and 1700 W m^-2 for a PL, in association with the much larger role of the latent heat in the first case and the stricter geostrophic constraints and larger static stability in the second case. This replaces the mystical role of 26^oC as a criterion for TC origin. The buoyancy flux, a product of the reduced gravity and the wind speed, together with the atmospheric static stability, determines the rate of the penetrating convection. It is known from the observations that the formation time for a PL reaching an altitude of 5--6 km can be only a few hours, and a day, or even half a day, for a TC reaching 15--18 km. These two facts allow us to construct curves on the plane of T^s and ΔT=T_s-T_a to determine possibilities for forming an intense vortex. Here, T_a is the atmospheric temperature at the height z=10 m. A PL should have ΔT>20^oC in accordance with the observations and numerical simulations. The conditions for a TC are not so straightforward but our diagram shows that the temperature difference of a few degrees, or possibly even a fraction of a degree, might be sufficient for TC development for a range of static stabilities and development times.     

冬季登陆我国的0428和7427号台风过程的冷空气作用和水汽特征

应用NCEP/NCAR再分析资料,对冬季登陆我国的0428和7427号台风过程的冷空气作用和水汽特征进行了研究,结果表明：在初冬季节,东亚大槽引导的冷空气可以到达热带洋面的台风外围;台风与出海高压相向而行, 外围气压梯度增强对台风强度的加强和维持起作用;弱冷空气在低层侵入仍在温暖海面上的台风,气旋扰动加强使台风加强;当强冷空气侵入台风中心中层时会破坏其暖心结构,使其填塞消亡。台风生成于水汽通量辐合带内,其生成和发展引起水汽汇合的扰动,加强水汽的辐合,使水汽辐合带加强;一旦台风脱离水汽辐合带后,不能继续获取大量水汽,则会逐渐减弱消亡;冬季台风过程没有强的水汽输送带。     

7号台风在"6.30"区域性大到暴雨过程中的作用分析

利用Micaps系统提供的资料,结合本地气象要素,对2004年6月30日忻州市部分县出现暴雨过程的天气系统和物理量场进行了分析,此次大雨到暴雨过程是高空低槽与7号台风“蒲公英”相互作用产生的。西风槽为降强水提供动力及冷暖空气,台风为强降水提供水汽。     

EOF和CCA方法在台风路径预报试验中的比较

利用气候持续性因子，并分别考虑了５００ｈＰａ高度场的ＥＯＦ因子和ＣＣＡ因子，分别建立了基于ＥＯＦ因子和基于ＣＣＡ因子的南海台风２４－１２０小时路径预报模式。经过非独立样本和独立样本的预报检验，比较。将两种方法运用于５００ｈＰａ高度场的分析表明，ＣＣＡ方法得出的典型变量权重系数分布虽不能象ＥＯＦ方法的特征向量一样表示出明显的而且平滑的空间场形式，但ＣＣＡ方法浓缩了更多的与台风路径整体相关性最好的原变     

Variations in Typhoon Landfalls over China

The interannual variability in typhoon landfalls over China is investigated using historical and modern records. For the purpose of substantiating and elaborating upon the claim of north to south variation in tropical cyclone activity over China, a north-to-south anti-correlation in yearly activity is confirmed in the historical cyclone records. When cyclone activity over the province of Guangdong is high （low）, it tends to be low （high） over the province of Fujian. A similar spatial variation is identified in the modern records using a factor analysis model, which delineates typhoon activity over the southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan from the activity over the northern provinces of Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Shandong. A landfall index of typhoon activity representing the degree to which each year follows this pattern of activity is used to identify correlated climate variables. A useful statistical regression model that includes sea-level pressure differences between Mongolia and western China and sea-surface temperature （SST） over the northwestern Pacific Ocean during the summer explains 26% of the interannual variability of the landfall index. It is suggested that a stronger than normal north-south pressure gradient increases the surface easterly wind flow over northern China： this, coupled with lower SST over the Pacific, favors typhoons taking a more westerly track toward southern China.     

华南秋季降水异常年的台风活动差异及其与海温的关系

本文通过对1965—2005年华南地区降水和台风的观测资料分析,初步探讨了华南秋季降水与台风活动的关系,结果表明秋季华南台风活动偏少是造成秋季降水减少的重要原因之一。进一步研究表明,秋季海温对于影响华南秋季的台风活动(强度和路径)具有重要作用,从而对华南秋季降水产生影响:当赤道中东太平洋海表增(降)温,影响华南台风活动减少(增多)以致秋季少(多)雨。这种影响很可能是通过华南中低层纬向风的异常来实现的,即当赤道中东太平洋海温降低(增加)时,华南中低层风场偏东风异常增大(减小),从而容易(不易)引导台风西行影响华南而使华南降水增多(减少)。     

台风"烟花"缓慢移动的机理研究:远距离双台风相互作用

本文通过一系列敏感性试验探究台风"烟花"移动缓慢的可能机理。结果表明:台风"烟花"的移动对台风"尼伯特"的强度较为敏感。"尼伯特"强度主要通过影响其附近大尺度低压系统的强度与范围,间接影响"烟花"的大尺度引导气流,进而影响"烟花"的移动。具体而言,"尼伯特"与其附近大尺度低压系统环流共同激发西北风引导气流,抵消了部分副高西南侧的东南风引导气流,从而造成"烟花"受到的大尺度引导气流偏弱,致使其移动缓慢,路径复杂。此外,当"尼伯特"强度越大时,以上过程对"烟花"移动的影响也越大。因此,当两个台风相距较远时,双台风相互作用可能通过影响周围的大尺度系统,间接对台风路径产生较大影响。     

"苏拉"和"达维"双台风过程中台风浪和海温的数值模拟

本文基于FVCOM-SWAVE耦合模型,以双台风"苏拉"和"达维"的台风过程为例,研究了台风过程中海浪和海温的变化,通过与高度计和Argo资料的对比,发现耦合模型能较准确的模拟出有效波高和海表面温度。由于双台风风场相互作用,风场结构和最大风速位置发生改变,影响着有效波高的分布,台风"苏拉"产生的最大有效波高位于台风后侧。海表面温度的降低与风场、浪场分布密切相关,强风强浪处的降温现象更明显,"苏拉"产生的降温区域位于路径附近,"达维"产生的降温区域位于路径右侧。台风对海表面温度的降低与初始的混合层厚度、温跃层强度存在相关性,具体表现为初始的混合层越薄、温跃层强度越大,降温越明显。