地形摩擦对台风移动的影响

本文从动力学的角度研究了台风流场与台风运动的关系,在实际预报中考虑地形摩擦改变的流场对台风移动的影响取得了明显的效果。     

中国东部7类暴雨异常环流型

近年来的研究发现,瞬变扰动天气图上的扰动场天气系统对区域暴雨的落区指示能力强于传统天气图上的总场天气系统。为供预报员在业务预报中参考,本文划分1998年发生在中国东部地区的41日次区域暴雨为7类扰动场天气系统。与区域暴雨相联系的7类异常环流型分别是:华南切变线、华南涡旋、华南倒槽、长江切变线与槽、沿江涡旋、华北涡旋和东北涡旋。无论是在对流层的垂直剖面上,还是在850 hPa水平分布上,扰动天气图上位势高度低值和风扰动辐合处并配合大的水汽扰动对应有区域暴雨,而传统天气图上的低值系统和高水汽区与暴雨之间存在位置上的偏移。由此建议,用实况大气变量和中期数值模式产品绘制扰动天气图有助于预报员确定区域暴雨落区。     

中国热浪事件的大气扰动结构及其稳定性分析

利用对流层至平流层大气变量的物理分解,本文发现400 hPa上的天气尺度温度扰动正值和250 hPa上的天气尺度高度扰动正值能够指示地面上的高温和热浪事件.理论和观测分析发现,当扰动静止波中心出现在40°N—45°N时,准静止波波长较长,影响范围大,持续时间久,容易在中国形成区域持续性热浪事件.在江南—华南、长江沿江及河套—华北的区域,干热浪事件静止波的稳定时间在6.5天以上.对流层大气天气尺度扰动波动在垂直方向具有倾斜特征,250 hPa高度上,静止波稳定位置比地面热浪区域中心普遍偏北6~12个纬距.在低纬度(副热带高压带南侧),大气中向西北方向移动的天气尺度扰动,只有到达副高脊线以北的西风带后,才能形成静止波.     

天气尺度扰动流场对区域暴雨的指示能力

观测的大气流场可以物理分解为气候流场、行星尺度纬圈平均扰动流场和天气尺度扰动流场.低层大气的天气尺度扰动流场中的切变线、南方气旋、北方气旋、冷锋槽线、西南涡暖切变线、热带气旋、倒槽切变线、东风波切变线等对区域暴雨具有指示意义.扰动流场中的环流系统更适合天气分析的原理.中国的暴雨带多为扰动辐合线两侧气流对峙的结果.观测流场中,暴雨带出现在低空急流的左侧,是因为气候流场掩盖或削弱了天气尺度扰动流场的作用.对切变线暴雨,天气尺度扰动流场有99%的诊断能力,而原始流场只有66%的指示能力.     

青藏高原地形对东亚夏季风北缘影响的数值试验

使用中国科学院大气物理研究所大气科学和地球流体力学数值模拟国家重点实验室(LASG/IAP)发展的大气环流谱模式SAMIL(R42L9),进行了有、无青藏高原对亚洲夏季风北边缘影响的数值模拟。结果表明,青藏高原大地形对夏季风北边缘活动有重要影响。有(无)高原时,其东侧的偏南风较强(弱)、较深(浅),向北扩展偏北(南),有(不)利于引导和加强夏季风北上,使北边缘偏北(南);同时,西太平洋副热带高压偏北偏西(偏南偏东),也有(不)利于夏季风向北深入我国大陆,从而使夏季风北边缘偏北(南)。与之相对应的夏季风降水区也偏北(南)。     

An overview of dry-wet climate variability among monsoon-westerly regions and the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone in China

Climate in mainland China can be divided into the monsoon region in the southeast and the westerly region in the northwest as well as the intercross zone, i.e., the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone that is oriented from Southwest China to the upper Yellow River, North China, and Northeast China. In the three regions, dry-wet climate changes are directly linked to the interaction of the southerly monsoon flow on the east side of the Tibetan Plateau and the westerly flow on the north side of the Plateau from the inter-annual to inter-decadal timescales. Some basic features of climate variability in the three regions for the last half century and the historical hundreds of years are reviewed in this paper. In the last half century, an increasing trend of summer precipitation associated with the enhancing westerly flow is found in the westerly region from Xinjiang to northern parts of North China and Northeast China. On the other hand, an increasing trend of summer precipitation along the Yangtze River and a decreasing trend of summer precipitation along the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone are associated with the weakening monsoon flow in East Asia. Historical documents are widely distributed in the monsoon region for hundreds of years and natural climate proxies are constructed in the non-monsoon region, while two types of climate proxies can be commonly found over the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone. In the monsoon region, dry-wet variation centers are altered among North China, the lower Yangtze River, and South China from one century to another. Dry or wet anomalies are firstly observed along the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone and shifted southward or southeastward to the Yangtze River valley and South China in about a 70-year timescale. Severe drought events are experienced along the monsoon northernmost marginal active zone during the last 5 centuries. Inter-decadal dry-wet variations are depicted by natural proxies for the last 4--5 centuries in several areas over the non-monsoon region. Some questions, such as the impact of global warming on dry-wet regime changes in China, complex interactions between the monsoon and westerly flows in Northeast China, and the integrated multi-proxy analysis throughout all of China, are proposed.     

Interannual Thermocline Signals and El Nio-La Nia Turnabout in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

One of the fundamental questions concerning the nature and prediction of the oceanic states in the equatorial eastern Pacific is how the turnabout from a cold water state (La Nina) to a warm water state (El Nino) takes place, and vice versa. Recent studies show that this turnabout is directly linked to the interannual thermocline variations in the tropical Pacific Ocean basin. An index, as an indicator and precursor to describe interannual thermocline variations and the turnabout of oceanic states in our previous paper (Qian and Hu, 2005), is also used in this study. The index, which shows the maximum subsurface temperature anomaly (MSTA), is derived from the monthly 21-year (1980-2000) expendable XBT dataset in the present study. Results show that the MSTA can be used as a precursor for the occurrences of El Nino (or La Nina) events. The subsequent analyses of the MSTA propagations in the tropical Pacific suggest a one-year potential predictability for El Nino and La Nina events by identifying ocean temperature anomalies in the thermocline of the western Pacific Ocean. It also suggests that a closed route cycle with the strongest signal propagation is identified only in the tropical North Pacific Ocean. A positive (or negative) MSTA signal may travel from the western equatorial Pacific to the eastern equatorial Pacific with the strongest signal along the equator. This signal turns northward along the tropical eastern boundary of the basin and then moves westward along the north side of off-equator around 16°N. Finally, the signal returns toward the equator along the western boundary of the basin. The turnabout time from an El Nino event to a La Nina event in the eastern equatorial Pacific depends critically on the speed of the signal traveling along the closed route, and it usually needs about 4 years. This finding may help to predict the occurrence of the El Nino or La Nina event at least one year in advance.     

未来的天气气候预测体系

天气气候预测中的不确定性是不可避免的。它一方面给用户或有关决策者带来很大的困难,同时也给科学工作者提出了新的研究课题。文章较为系统地评述了近几年出现的关于如何发展未来气象预测体系的若干观点,根据风险经济学和决策理论,构建了一个未来天气气候预测体系的概念模型。其主要思想是将气象预测过程同用户决策过程有机地结合起来,充分利用来自用户的知识和风险管理经验,形成一个相互作用协同发展的预测体系。     

中国北方百年四季降水趋势与海平面气压形势

根据中国东部33站1884～1995年的四季降水进行了经验正交函数(EOF)开展,得到了前三个模态随时间的演变,重点分析与我国北方降水变化有关的趋势及与同期海平面气压距平的关系.夏季降水的第一模态反映在长江和黄河中部与华南沿海的降水位相相反.这一降水模态在20年前的变率较大.当夏季东北亚出现稳定的地面高压距平,中国东部处于气压槽中时长江和黄河中部降水偏多,而当地面高压距平稳定于我国西北和低压距平处于东部海上时降水为负距平.夏季降水的第三模态表现为以长江为界的南北反向变化.秋季降水的第二模态表现为以长江为界的南北反向变化,第三模态表现为东部沿海与西部的反向变化.这些降水模态与一定环流形势相联系,特别是秋季降水的第三模态受台风路径的环流形势所决定.冬季降水的第一模态中心也出现在长江和黄河中部,年代际变化的幅度趋于增强.对春季降水,第一模态表现为长江及其以北的降水与华南的降水反位相.2～3年变化幅度大于年代际变化的幅度.第2模态反映出华北和东北的降水与其它地区的降水位相相反,存在30年左右的位相转换关系.北方地区的春旱从1980年代开始有所加重.     

地形对连云港8591特大暴雨的作用

1985年9月1日夜间,江苏连云港港区发生了一场历史罕见的特大暴雨。本文应用一个二维定常模式对气流流经港区附近地形所产生的动力学效应进行了研究,得到当基本气流达到极大(14米/秒)时,地形边界层内扰动涡旋的上升支气流与降水分布有较好的对应关系。