Thunderstorm cloud top dynamics as inferred from satellite observations and a cloud top parcel model
Thunderstorm cloud top dynamics as inferred from satellite observations and a cloud top parcel model
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根据卫星观测和云顶地块模型推断的雷暴云顶动态
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1986
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R. Mack
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R. Adler;R. Mack
Abstract A Lagrangian model applicable to the overshooting region of thunderstorm tops is used to describe the temperature-height path taken by updraft core parcels as they penetrate above the tropopause, reach their maximum height and descend in the periphery of the convective tower. The model is run under a variety of ambient and in-cloud conditions in order to simulate certain temperature-height relationships observed in satellite observations. Observations indicate that in the majority of observed storm tops, the satellite-observed cold point in the IR brightness temperature (TB) field is collocated with the highest point in the convective overshooting region and the TB-height relations are near adiabatic. The parcel model quantitatively reproduces this type of relationship for model runs where the mixing parameter is relatively small. Another type of storm has a close-in, cold-warm TB couplet with a dimension of approximately 20–40 km and a V-shaped cold TB pattern. In some cases of these V-shaped st...