Taklimakan Desert nocturnal low-level jet: climatology and dust activity
Taklimakan Desert nocturnal low-level jet: climatology and dust activity
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塔克拉玛干沙漠夜间低空急流:气候学和沙尘活动
DOI:
10.5194/acp-16-7773-2016
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发表时间:
2016-06
影响因子:
6.3
通讯作者:
Fu, Qiang
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作者:
Ge, Jin Ming;Liu, Huayue;Huang, Jianping;Fu, Qiang
Abstract. While nocturnal low-level jets (NLLJs) occur frequently in many parts of the world, the occurrence and other detailed characteristics of NLLJs over the Taklimakan Desert (TD) are not well known. This paper presents a climatology of NLLJs and coincident dust over the TD by analyzing multi-year ERA-Interim reanalysis and satellite observations. It is found that the ERA-Interim dataset can capture the NLLJs' features well by comparison with radiosonde data from two surface sites. The NLLJs occur in more than 60 % of nights, which are primarily easterly to east-northeasterly. They typically appear at 100 to 400 m above the surface with a speed of 4 to 10 m s−1. Most NLLJs are located above the nocturnal inversion during the warm season, while they are embedded in the inversion layer during the cold season. NLLJs above the inversion have a strong annual cycle with a maximum frequency in August. We also quantify the convective boundary layer (CBL) height and construct an index to measure the magnitude of the momentum in the CBL. We find that the magnitude of momentum in the lower atmosphere from the top of the surface layer to the top of mixed layer is larger for NLLJ cases than for non-NLLJ cases, and in the warm season the downward momentum transfer process is more intense and rapid. The winds below the NLLJ core to the desert surface gain strength in summer and autumn, and these summer and autumn winds are coincident with an enhancement of aerosol optical depth. This indicates that the NLLJ is an important mechanism for dust activity and transport during the warm season over the Taklimakan.
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影响因子:
5.2
作者:
Xiaoye Zhang;S. Gong;S. Gong;T. L. Zhao;R. Arimoto;Yaqiang Wang;Z. J. Zhou
通讯作者:
Xiaoye Zhang;S. Gong;S. Gong;T. L. Zhao;R. Arimoto;Yaqiang Wang;Z. J. Zhou
DOI:
10.1016/j.jqsrt.2009.03.010
发表时间:
2009-09
影响因子:
2.3
作者:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
6.3
作者:
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通讯作者:
I. Tegen;K. Schepanski;B. Heinold
影响因子:
5.2
作者:
Ge, J. M.;Huang, J. P.;Fu, Q.
通讯作者:
Fu, Q.
影响因子:
18.3
作者:
Uno, Itsushi;Eguchi, Kenta;Sugimoto, Nobuo
通讯作者:
Sugimoto, Nobuo