A Comparison of Two Heavy Rainfall Events during the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX) 2008
A Comparison of Two Heavy Rainfall Events during the Terrain-Influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX) 2008
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DOI:
10.1175/mwr-d-13-00293.1
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发表时间:
2014-06
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Chuan-Chi Tu;Yi-Leng Chen;Ching-Sen Chen;P. Lin;Po-Hsiung Lin
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作者:
Chuan-Chi Tu;Yi-Leng Chen;Ching-Sen Chen;P. Lin;Po-Hsiung Lin
AbstractTwo contrasting localized heavy rainfall events during Taiwan’s early summer rainy season with the daily rainfall maximum along the windward mountain range and coast were studied and compared using a combination of observations and numerical simulations. Both events occurred under favorable large-scale settings including the existence of a moisture tongue from the tropics. For the 31 May case, heavy rainfall occurred in the afternoon hours over the southwestern windward slopes after a shallow surface front passed central Taiwan. The orographic lifting of the prevailing warm, moist, west-southwesterly flow aloft, combined with a sea breeze–upslope flow at the surface provided the localized lifting needed for the development of heavy precipitation. On 16 June before sunrise, pronounced orographic blocking of the warm, moist, south-southwesterly flow occurred because of the presence of relatively cold air at low levels as a result of nocturnal and rain evaporative cooling. As a result, convective sys...