2024年2月赣闽浙一次连续降雹雷达观测特征

Radar Observational Characteristics of a Continuous Hailfall Event in Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang in February 2024

  • 摘要: 针对2024年2月21日一次连跨江西、福建和浙江三省的中尺度对流系统连续降雹过程,利用S波段双偏振雷达数据分析不同阶段中尺度对流系统的动力结构和粒子相态等演变特征。结果表明:该过程高低空形势为典型的高架对流配置,持续强盛的中尺度辐合上升运动是维持连续降雹的动力因素。在发展阶段,表征上升气流的差分反射率ZDR柱向上伸展至-5 ℃层,在ZDR柱上方形成雹胚源区;在成熟阶段,ZDR柱维持并将更多的液滴带入冷区,在-20~-10 ℃层的湿增长区形成冰雹,并碰冻过冷水长大;当冰雹开始下落,其产生的拖拽作用使ZDR柱高度降低至0 ℃层。中尺度对流系统在不同阶段及不同强度降雹时的高低层雷达偏振参量配置不同。在发展阶段,冷区中已生成冰雹粒子,对应ZDR负值、相关系数低值和比差分相移KDP缺值,此时是开展人工防雹的有利时刻;在成熟阶段,ZDR负值区向垂直方向扩展,相关系数较发展阶段增大,暖区中冰雹粒子下落过程部分融化,并与雨滴等形成混合相态,相关系数较发展阶段减小,同时KDP缺值范围扩大。

     

    Abstract: On 21 February 2024, a mesoscale convective system accompanied by hail developed across Jiangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang. To investigate the evolution of dynamic structure and hydrometeor types of the persistent hailfall-producing cell during different stages, this event is analyzed based on S-band dual-polarization radar data. Results show that the synoptic conditions in the upper and lower levels constitute a typical elevated convective environment. During the mature stage,3 radar parameters, the maximum reflectivity, echo top height and vertically integrated liquid water, show significant increases compared to the development stage. Large hail occurrence corresponds to higher values of maximum reflectivity, echo top height and vertically integrated liquid water. A sharp increase in vertically integrated liquid water content can serve as an indicator for the occurrence of large hail at the surface. Persistent and strong mesoscale convergent updrafts are identified as the primary dynamic mechanism responsible for the continuous hailfall. ZDR column appears consistently throughout both the development and mature stages, with its height gradually decreasing as the mesoscale convective system hailfall event progresses. During the development stage, ZDR column extends upward to -5 ℃ level. The updraft within the column rapidly transports raindrops from the warm sector into the cold sector, forming a hail embryo region above ZDR column. During the maturation stage, ZDR column persists with the sustained strong updrafts lifting more liquid droplets into the cold sector. This enhances the supply of supercooled water and hail embryos, which continuously form in the wet growth region between -20 ℃ and -10 ℃. Embryos grow into hailstones through the accretion and freezing of supercooled cloud water. When hail begins to descend, the drag effect caused by falling hail particles lowers ZDR column height to 0 ℃. The vertical configuration of radar polarimetric parameters varies during different stages of the mesoscale convective system and under hailfalls of different intensities. During the development stage, hail particles have already formed in the cold region, characterized by negative ZDR, low correlation coefficient and negligible KDP. This period represents favorable timing for artificial hail suppression. In the mature stage, the area extent of hail particles in the cold region expands significantly compared to the development stage, with particle phase becoming more uniform, reflected by an increase in the correlation coefficient. The negative ZDR zone extends vertically downward, while in the warm region, partial melting of descending hail particles along with raindrops results in a mixed phase region. This mixture leads to a decrease in the correlation coefficient and an expansion of the area characterized by absent KDP.

     

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