Wind regimes and their relation to synoptic variables using self-organizing maps
Wind regimes and their relation to synoptic variables using self-organizing maps
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使用自组织地图的风况及其与天气变量的关系
DOI:
10.5194/asr-15-1-2018
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发表时间:
2018
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通讯作者:
S. Berkovic
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作者:
S. Berkovic
Abstract. This study exemplifies the ability of the self-organizing maps (SOM) method
to directly define well known wind regimes over Israel during the entire
year, except summer period, at 12:00 UTC. This
procedure may be applied at other hours and is highly relevant to future
automatic climatological analysis and applications. The investigation is performed by analysing surface wind measurements from
53 Israel Meteorological Service stations. The relation between the synoptic
variables and the wind regimes is revealed from the averages of ECMWF
ERA-INTERIM reanalysis variables for each SOM wind regime. The inspection of wind regimes and their average geopotential anomalies has
shown that wind regimes relate to the gradient of the pressure anomalies,
rather than to the specific isobars pattern. Two main wind regimes – strong
western and the strong eastern or northern – are well known over this
region. The frequencies of the regimes according to seasons is verified.
Strong eastern regimes are dominant during winter, while strong western
regimes are frequent in all seasons.