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A Satellite View of the Atmospheric Dry Intrusion and its Influences on the Mid-Latitude Disastrous Weather

Version 1 : Received: 17 September 2016 / Approved: 18 September 2016 / Online: 18 September 2016 (10:27:56 CEST)

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Shou, Y.-X.; Lu, F.; Shou, S. Satellite Assessments of Tropopause Dry Intrusions Correlated to Mid-Latitude Storms. Atmosphere 2016, 7, 128. Shou, Y.-X.; Lu, F.; Shou, S. Satellite Assessments of Tropopause Dry Intrusions Correlated to Mid-Latitude Storms. Atmosphere 2016, 7, 128.

Abstract

Dry intrusion is an important mid-latitude atmosphere phenomenon within the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. It is always found to be related to the cyclogenesis, rainstorm, as well as convection generation and precipitation enhancement. Since the atmosphere environment for any of these above-mentioned weather is terribly complicated, those preexisting popular schemes which takes no account of water vapor may not suitable for detecting the dry intrusion related to these weathers. With regard to the merits and demerits of the current preexisting schemes, a new scheme based on Fengyun-2E geo-stationary satellite data is presented in this study to detect the atmospheric dry intrusion. The scheme is set up based on the statistical relationship between water vapor at high level troposphere, the general moist potential vorticity, ozone concentration and upper-level jet. After using the total amount of ozone and ozone profile operational products retrieved by Fengyun-3 Polar Orbiting Meteorological Satellites and the potential vorticity calculated by ECMWF Interim data for validation, this scheme is applied to analyze two typical middle-latitude weather processes. One is the famous Beijing extreme rainfall of 21 July 2012 and the other is a hailstorm occurred on the eastern China during March 19, 2014. A good application effect in both cases suggests that our new method of detecting dry intrusion is feasible and can be helpful in middle-latitude disastrous weather monitoring and forecasting.

Keywords

dry intrusion; Stratosphere-troposphere exchange; mid-latitude; satellite

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

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