A case study of mesoscale convective band (MCB) development and evolution along a quasi-stationary front     

Daeun JEONG  Ki-Hong MIN  Gyuwon LEE  Kyung-Eak KIM 《大气科学进展》2014,31(4):901-915

This paper presents a case study of mesoscale convective band （MCB） development along a quasi-stationary front over the Seout metropolitan area.The MCB,which initiated on 1500 UTC 20 September 2010 and ended on 1400 UTC 21 September 2010,produced a total precipitation amount of 259.5 mm.The MCB development occurred during a period of tropopause folding in the upper level and moisture advection with a low-level jet.The analyses show that the evolution of the MCB can be classified into five periods：（1） the cell-forming period,when convection initiated; （2） the frontogenetic period,when the stationary front formed over the Korean peninsula; （3） the quasi-stationary period,when the convective band remained over Seoul for 3 h; （4） the mature period,when the cloud cover was largest and the precipitation rate was greater than 90 mm h-1; and （5） the dissipating period,when the MCB diminished and disappeared.The synoptic,thermodynamic,and dynamic analyses show that the MCB maintained its longevity by a tilted updraft,which headed towards a positive PV anomaly.Precipitation was concentrated under this area,where a tilted ascending southwesterly converged with a tilted ascending northeasterly,at the axis of cyclonic rotation.The formation of the convective cell was attributed in part by tropopause folding,which enhanced the cyclonic vorticity at the surface,and by the low-level convergence of warm moist air and upperlevel divergence.The southwesterly flow ascended in a region with high moisture content and strong relative vorticity that maintained the development of an MCB along the quasi-stationary front.  相似文献   

辽宁地区第一对流层顶高度变化特征分析   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

李辑  蔡福  明惠青  谷秀杰 《气象与环境学报》2009,25(2):9-15

本文利用趋势分析、突变分析以及小波分析等方法对近42 a辽宁南部（大连）和北部（沈阳）第一对流层顶高度变化特征进行分析和比较,结果表明：近42 a,辽宁第一对流层顶高度除冬季以外其它三季和年呈下降趋势,南部地区的降幅明显大于北部;多年均值的年变化表现为在夏季最高、春秋季次之、冬季最低,各个季节南部高度值普遍高于北部;年际变化幅度在夏季最大,除冬季外,南部大于北部;发生气候突变的时段基本上都在1970年代中期前后;周期变化特征时空差异较大。  相似文献