Assessment of several moist adiabatic processes associated with convective energy calculation |
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Authors: | LI Yaodong GAO Shouting LIU Jianwen |
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Institution: | Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,100029;Beijing Aviation Meteorological Institute, Beijing,100085;Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,100029;Beijing Aviation Meteorological Institute, Beijing,100085 |
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Abstract: | Several methods dealing with the moist adiabatic process are described in this paper. They are based on static energy conservation, pseudo-equivalent potential temperature conservation, the strict pseudoadiabatic equation, and the reversible moist adiabatic process, respectively. Convective energy parameters, which are closely related to the moist adiabatic process and which reflect the gravitational effects of condensed liquid water, are reintroduced or defined, including MCAPE Modified-CAPE (convective available potential energy)], DCAPE (Downdraft-CAPE), and MDCAPE (Modified-Downdraft-CAPE). Two real case analyses with special attention given to condensed liquid water show that the selection of moist adiabatic process does affect the calculated results of CAPE and the gravitational effects of condensed liquid water are not negligible in severe storms. Intercomparisons of these methods show that static energy conservation is consistent with pseudo-equivalent potential temperature conservation not only in physical properties but also in calculated results, and both are good approximations to the strict pseudo-adiabatic equation. The lapse rate linked with the reversible moist adiabatic process is relatively smaller than that linked with other moist adiabatic processes, especially when considering solidification of liquid water in the reversible adiabatic process. |
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Keywords: | moist adiabatic processes modified convective available potential energy downdraft convective available potential energy modified downdraft convective available potential energy reversible moist adiabatic process liquid water |
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