Cold Air Influence on the Tibetan Plateau Vortex Moving out of the Plateau

Yu Shuhua; Xiao Yuhua; Gao Wenliang

Vol.18, NO.6, 2007

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Yu Shuhua, Xiao Yuhua, Gao Wenliang. Cold air influence on the Tibetan Plateau vortex moving out of the plateau. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2007, 18(6): 737-747.

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Yu Shuhua, Xiao Yuhua, Gao Wenliang. Cold air influence on the Tibetan Plateau vortex moving out of the plateau. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2007, 18(6): 737-747.

Yu Shuhua, Xiao Yuhua, Gao Wenliang. Cold air influence on the Tibetan Plateau vortex moving out of the plateau. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2007, 18(6): 737-747.

Citation:

Yu Shuhua, Xiao Yuhua, Gao Wenliang. Cold air influence on the Tibetan Plateau vortex moving out of the plateau. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2007, 18(6): 737-747.

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Cold Air Influence on the Tibetan Plateau Vortex Moving out of the Plateau

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Institute of Plateau Meteorology, CMA, Chengdu 610072
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Sichuan Provincial Meteorological Observatory, Chengdu 610072

Received Date: 2006-11-06
Rev Recd Date: 2007-04-09
Publish Date: 2007-12-31

Abstract

Abstract

Storm rainfall and torrential storm rainfall and flood to the east of the Tibetan Plateau and even over a large area of China can be led to by some vortices that move out of the main Plateau region. Much attention is paid by meteorologists to the research on Plateau vortex moving eastwards, but the study of cold air influence on the Tibetan Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau is few. Based on analyzing the different vortex activities which lead to the severe flood in large area of China, the middle troposphere level cold air influence on the Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau and by using the synoptic diagnose, numerical simulation and experiment, the cold air influence on the Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau is discussed.By investigating and analyzing the different east moving processes of Plateau vortices during 1998—2004, typical Plateau vortex processes leading to the severe flood disasters over different region of China are selected. By synoptic analysis and using 4 times daily 1°×1°NCEP data and the same time upper air observational data, the potential vorticity of Tuole Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau during August 12—14, 2002 is analyzed. By using the MM5 version 3.4 PSU/NCAR high resolution non-static mesoscale model, a series of numerical experiments are conducted. The following results are obtained. There is cold air influence both before and after the Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau which has long active time (more than 36 hours). The Tuole Plateau vortex moves with shear line and moves out of the Plateau by influence of the cold air flow invasion from the northeast. By potential vorticity analysis on the Tuole vortex moving out of the Plateau, it is found that the Plateau vortices is influenced by cold air flow of northeast region of China and moves out of the Plateau when there is high level potential energy air moving into low level potential energy air and the cold air flow is forced close to wet and warm air flow. It is demonstrated through the numerical simulation of cold air influence on Tuole Plateau vortex that when there is no cold in Plateau vortex area or no cold temperature trough, the northeast main cold air is made lean to east and weak and less influence to Tuole vortex of northeast China cold air flow. The baroclinic instability is made small.The speed of the Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau will also be slowed down, and the intensity of the vortex will be weaker and the maximal wind speed will be lowered. The influence of the China northeast cold temperature trough is especially much obvious and the Plateau vortex region will be small when there exists a China northeast cold temperature trough, and the Plateau vortex will draw back to the west and float around the Plateau edge.
- the Plateau vortex;
- cold air influence;
- diagnostic analysis;
- numerical experiment

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图 1 5次高原低涡移动路径示意图

(1表示1998年8月17日12:00—20日00:00申扎低涡; 2表示1999年7月14日00:00—16日00:00石渠低涡; 3表示2000年7月10日00:00—13日00:00托托河低涡; 4表示2002年8月12日00:00—20日00:00托勒低涡; 5表示2003年7月12日00:00—14日12:00诺木洪低涡)

Fig. 1 The moving tracks of 5 Plateau vortices

(1 indicates the Shenzha Plateau vortex track from 12:00 on August 17 to 00:00 on August 20, 1998;2 indicates the Shiqu Plateau vortex track from 00:00 on July 14 to 00:00 on July 16, 1999;3 indicates the Totohe Plateau vortex track from 00:00 on July 10 to 00:00 on July 13, 2000;4 indicates the Tuole Plateau vortex track from 00:00 on August 12 to 00:00 on August 20, 2002;5 indicates the Nuomuhong Plateau vortex track from 00:00 on July 12 to 12:00 on July 14, 2003)

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图 2 2002年8月12日00:00(a) 及12:00(b)500 hPa高度场和温度场

(实线为等高线, 单位:gpm; 虚线为等温线, 单位:℃; “C”为低涡中心; 阴影区为青藏高原区域, 下同)

Fig. 2 500 hPa geopotential height and temperature field at 00:00 (a) and 12:00 (b) on August 12, 2002

(solid line denotes geopotential height, unit:gpm; dashed line denotes temperature, unit:℃; "C" denotes the vortex center; shade area denotes Tibetan Plateau hereinafter)

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图 3 2002年8月12日00:00(a) 和12:00(b)500 hPa流场 (矢量, 单位:m·s^-1)、温度 (等值线, 单位:℃) 分布

Fig. 3 500 hPa wind vector field (vectors, unit:m·s^-1) and temperature field (contours, unit:℃) at 00:00 (a) and 12:00 (b) on August 12, 2002

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图 4 2002年8月12日00:00(a) 和12:00(b)500 hPa流场 (矢量, 单位:m·s^-1)、相对湿度 (等值线, 单位:%) 分布

Fig. 4 500 hPa wind vector field (vectors, unit:m·s^-1) and relative humidity field (contours, unit:%) at 00:00 (a) and 12:00 (b) on August 12, 2002

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图 5 2002年8月12日00:00(a) 和12:00(b)500 hPa位涡水平分布图 (图中数值×1000, 单位:PVU)

Fig. 5 500 hPa horizontal potential vorticity field (the value is multiplied by 1000, unit:PVU) at 00:00 (a) and 12:00 (b) on August 12, 2002

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图 6 500 hPa流场积分结果 (a) 控制试验积分12 h, (b) 控制试验积分24 h, (c) 试验1积分12 h, (d) 试验1积分24 h, (e) 试验2积分12 h, (f) 试验2积分24 h

Fig. 6 Output of 500 hPa stream field (a) the control experiment with 12 hours integration, (b) the control experiment with 24 hours integration, (c) experiment 1 with 12 hours integration, (d) experiment 1 with 24 hours integration, (e) experiment 2 with 12 hours integration, (f) experiment 2 with 24 hours integration

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表 1 不同高原低涡移出高原的500 hPa特征比较

Table 1 The characteristics comparison of different Plateau vortex moving out of the Plateau on 500 hPa

表 2 2002年8月12—14日托勒低涡活动的中心位置、涡区最冷温度、涡区最强日降温

Table 2 The center position, minimum temperature, maximum daily detemperature of the Tole Plateau vortex during August 12—14, 2002

表 3 各试验低涡特征值

Table 3 The eigenvalue of different numerical experiments

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