PARAMETERIZATION OF MOBILIZATION AND TRANSPORT OF SAND-DUST DURING BLACK STORM AND MESOSCALE NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS* |
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| Authors: | Liu Chuntao and Cheng Linsheng |
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| Institution: | Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000;Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000 |
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| Abstract: | The typical black storms or sand-dust storms in the northwestern China are generated and developed through an interaction between the specific large scale circulation pattern and mesoseale systems.The passing by/over a huge sand-abundant desert of a strong cold front with intensive frontal zone at mid and lower levels is a necessary condition for the formation and development of a black storm or a severe sand-dust storm.In order to investigate the mechanism of the sand-dustmobilization,transport and sedimentation during the black or sand-dust storms,a parameterization scheme of sand-dust source-sink terms and an equation of transport for the sand-dust were proposed and incorporated into the MM4 mesoscale model.The modified MM4 model was applied to the "May 1993" black storm case and succeeded in reproducing the evolution of the weather systems associated with the black-storm,the sand-dust concentration at surface layer and its vertical distribution,and the sand-dust sedimentation and transport.Our results show that the numerical simulating method by using a mesoscale model,with inclusion of an equation of the sand-dust transport and a parameterization scheme of the sand-dust source-sink terms,is a promising approach to study the mechanism for sand-dust mobilization,transport and sedimentation during a sand-dust storm event. |
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| Keywords: | black storm mobilization and transport of sand-dust parameterization of sand-dust source and sink terms numerical simulation |
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