Tropical cyclone life cycle in a three‐dimensional numerical simulation
Tropical cyclone life cycle in a three‐dimensional numerical simulation
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三维数值模拟中的热带气旋生命周期
DOI:
10.1002/qj.4133
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
8.9
通讯作者:
Montgomery MT
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文献类型:
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作者:
Smith RK;Kilroy G;Montgomery MT
An idealized, three‐dimensional, numerical simulation of tropical cyclone evolution in a quiescent environment on anf‐plane is used to explore aspects of the cyclone's life cycle in the context of the rotating‐convection paradigm. In the 20‐day simulation, the vortex undergoes a life cycle including a gestation period culminating in genesis, a rapid intensification phase, a mature phase, a transient decay and re‐intensification phase, a second mature phase and a rapid decay phase. During much of the life cycle, the flow evolution is highly asymmetric, although important aspects of it can be understood within an azimuthally averaged framework, central to which are a boundary‐layer control mechanism and a new ventilation diagnostic. The boundary‐layer control mechanism provides an explanation for the gradual expansion of the inner core of the vortex. The ventilation diagnostic characterizes the ability of deep convection within a given radius to evacuate the mass of air ascending out of the boundary layer within that radius. The transient decay and re‐intensification phase is not associated with an eyewall replacement cycle, but rather with a hitherto undescribed process in which the eyewall becomes fragmented as a rainband complex forms beyond it. This process is interpreted as an interplay between the boundary layer and ventilation. The final rapid decay of the vortex results from the ever increasing difficulty of deep convection to ventilate the air exiting the boundary layer. Any unventilated air flows radially outwards in the lower troposphere and leads to spin‐down because of the approximate conservation of mean absolute angular momentum. If found in real cyclones, such transience or final decay might be erroneously attributed to ambient vertical wind shear. The results support the hypothesis that, even in a quiescent environment, isolated tropical cyclone vortices are intrinsically transient and never reach a globally steady state.
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DOI:
10.1029/2018jd030092
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
影响因子:
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作者:
C. Jakob;M. S. Singh;L. Jungandreas
通讯作者:
L. Jungandreas
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Roger K. Smith;M. Montgomery
通讯作者:
Roger K. Smith;M. Montgomery
DOI:
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发表时间:
2006
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
V. Wirth;T. Dunkerton
通讯作者:
T. Dunkerton
影响因子:
8.9
作者:
G. Kilroy;R. K. Smith;M. T. Montgomery
通讯作者:
M. T. Montgomery
DOI:
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发表时间:
2017
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
M. Montgomery;Roger K. Smith
通讯作者:
Roger K. Smith