Incorporating the Effects of Moisture into a Dynamical Parameter: Moist Vorticity and Moist Divergence
Incorporating the Effects of Moisture into a Dynamical Parameter: Moist Vorticity and Moist Divergence
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DOI:
10.1175/waf-d-14-00154.1
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发表时间:
2015-04
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
W. Qian;Jun Du;X. Shan;Ning Jiang
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作者:
W. Qian;Jun Du;X. Shan;Ning Jiang
AbstractProperly including moisture effects into a dynamical parameter can significantly increase the parameter’s ability to diagnose heavy rain locations. The relative humidity–based weighting approach used to extend the moist potential vorticity (MPV) to the generalized moist potential vorticity (GMPV) is analyzed and demonstrates such an improvement. Following the same approach, two new diagnostic parameters, moist vorticity (MV) and moist divergence (MD), have been proposed in this study by incorporating moisture effects into the traditional vorticity and divergence. A regional heavy rain event that occurred along the Yangtze River on 1 July 1991 is used as a case study, and 41 daily regional heavy rain events during the notorious flooding year of 1998 in eastern China are used for a systematic evaluation. Results show that after the moisture effects were properly incorporated, the improved ability of all three parameters to capture a heavy rain area is significant (statistically at the 99% confidence...