Thermodynamic Aspects of Tropical Cyclone Formation

被引:103
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作者
Wang, Zhuo [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Illinois, Dept Atmospher Sci, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
AFRICAN EASTERLY WAVES; CRITICAL LAYER; TYPHOON NURI; EVOLUTION; GENESIS; CYCLOGENESIS; HURRICANES; VORTICITY; SYSTEMS; MODEL;
D O I
10.1175/JAS-D-11-0298.1
中图分类号
P4 [大气科学(气象学)];
学科分类号
0706 ; 070601 ;
摘要
The thermodynamic aspects of tropical cyclone (TC) formation near the center of the wave pouch, a region of approximately closed Lagrangian circulation within the wave critical layer, are examined through diagnoses of a high-resolution numerical simulation and dropsonde data from a recent field campaign. It is found that the rneso-beta area near the pouch center is characterized by high saturation fraction, small difference in equivalent potential temperature theta(c) between the surface and the middle troposphere, and a short incubation time scale. Updrafts tend to be more vigorous in this region, presumably because of reduced dry air entrainment, while downdrafts are not suppressed. The thermodynamic conditions near the pouch center are thus critically important for TC formation. The balanced responses to convective and stratiform heating at the pregenesis stage are examined using the Sawyer-Eliassen equation. Deep convection is concentrated near the pouch center. The strong radial and vertical gradients of latent heat release effectively force the transverse circulation and spin up a surface protovortex near the pouch center. Stratiform heating induces modest midlevel inflow and very weak low-level outflow, which contributes to the midlevel spinup without substantially spinning down the low-level circulation. The analysis of dropsonde data shows that the midlevel theta(c) increases significantly near the pouch center one to two days prior to genesis but changes little away from the pouch center. This may indicate convective organization and the impending TC genesis. It also suggests that the critical information of TC genesis near the pouch center may be masked out if a spatial average is taken over the pouch scale.
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页码:2433 / 2451
页数:19
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