Liu Guiyan, Gao Shanhong, Wang Yongming, et al. Numerical simulation of atmospheric duct in typhoon subsidence area. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2012, 23(1): 77-88.
Citation: Liu Guiyan, Gao Shanhong, Wang Yongming, et al. Numerical simulation of atmospheric duct in typhoon subsidence area. J Appl Meteor Sci, 2012, 23(1): 77-88.

Numerical Simulation of Atmospheric Duct in Typhoon Subsidence Area

  • Received Date: 2011-04-19
  • Rev Recd Date: 2011-10-08
  • Publish Date: 2012-02-29
  • The atmospheric duct is a kind of anomalous refraction phenomena in the troposphere atmosphere. It can change the normal propagation characteristic of the electromagnetic wave, and has a significant influence on radar detections and radio communications. The emergence of duct strongly depends on the weather conditions and it often occurs in the subsidence area west to a typhoon.With the rapid development and extensive application of atmospheric numerical models, high-resolution numerical modeling has become an important tool to get insight of duct.Using the WRF model, the atmospheric duct process occurred on 31 August 2002 over Nanjing region in a subsidence area west to Typhoon Rusa is studied in details. The WRF numerical simulation reproduces well the evolution of the duct, which starts to form in the evening of 31 August, reaches the strongest level the next early morning, weakened and disappeared rapidly after sunrise. Based on numerical simulation output with high spatial-temporal resolution, results show that humidity gradient is a key factor to the formation of this duct, and the humidity invertion enhances its strength. The outside low-level flow in the typhoon early stage brings plenty of moisture from the sea to Nanjing region in the near surface layer. The typhoon moves northeastward and dry air mass is transported from the north by the outside high-level flow in the typhoon late stage, and sink down due to high pressure, so an intense gradient of humidity which is prerequisite for the formation of duct appears in the near surface layer. The subsidence itself is not strong enough to directly cause the inversion, but the clear-sky weather caused by it is favorable for long-wave radiation cooling during night time, which is the primary cause for the inversion formation. The inversion formation hinders the upward transport of water vapor, so that the humidity gradient develops further. Besides, the simulation results also reflect the marine atmospheric duct.These results also show that the high-resolution atmospheric meso-scale numerical simulation can be used as an effective means of studying and forecasting duct.
  • Fig. 1  WRF modeling domains

    (the black dots indicate duct-occurred stations in Nanjing and its neighboring area at 2000 BT 31 August 2002; the empty circles linked by dash line indicate the typhoon track from 0000 BT 30 August to 0000 BT 1 September in 2002; the interval between two neighboring circles is 12 h)

    Fig. 2  The potential heights (unit:gpm) and winds (a full barb indicates 4 m·s-1) analysis of FNL data at 850 hPa

    (solid circles and empty circles indicate the stations with and without duct, respectively)

    Fig. 3  Evolution of the simulated modified refractivity at Nanjing Station

    (the solid line represents the simulated one; the dashed line represents the observed one)

    Fig. 4  Distribution of the simulated duct by the control experiment

    (solid circles and empty circles indicate the stations with and without duct, respectively)

    Fig. 5  Vertical sections of the simulated temperature and duct along AB shown in Fig. 1

    (colorful shaded represents temperature, unit:℃; blue solid, dashed and dotted lines represent the vertical gradient of modified refractivity with value 0, -80, -160 M·km-1, respectively; the arrows represent wind, the black dot on the horizontal axis represents the location of Nanjing Station)

    Fig. 6  The 12 h backward trajectory of air mass at different heights from Nanjing (a) and temporal changes of heights (b) and temperatures (c) of backward trajectories, and local temperature (d) at Nanjing Station

    (AO, BO, CO, DO and EO indicate the trajectorys of the air mass from different heights, respectively; O indicates the location of Nanjing Station)

    Fig. 7  Vertical sections of the simulated temperature of control and sensitivty experiments along CD in Fig. 1

    (the black dot indicates the location of Nanjing Station)

    Fig. 8  Same as in Fig. 5, except for water mixing ratio (colorful shaded, unit: g·kg-1)

    Fig. 9  FNL analysis at 850 hPa and duct areas of four typhoon cases

    (hollow typhoon symbol indicates the track of typhoon, solid typhoon symbol indicates the location of the typhoon when ducts occurred, and solid circles indicate duct-occurred stations)

    Fig. 10  Vertical gradient sections of water mixing ratio and duct along EF in Fig.1

    (colorful shaded is the vertical gradient of water mixing ratio; blue solid, dashed and dotted lines represent the vertical gradient of modified refractivity with value 0, -80, -160 M·km-1, respectively; arrows represent wind)

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