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Numerial Simulations of Convective Events – The Effect of Propagating Gust Fronts. Kaspar and Müller (kaspar@ufa.cas.cz) Institute of Atmospheric Physics ASCR, Prague, CR. H – head height. Simpson (1972). H. gust front. Motivation.
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Numerial Simulations of Convective Events– The Effect ofPropagating Gust Fronts Kaspar and Müller (kaspar@ufa.cas.cz) Institute of Atmospheric Physics ASCR, Prague, CR
H – head height Simpson (1972) H gust front Motivation Nowcasting, numerical and analytical studies.(Droegemeier and Wilhelmson, 1987; Liu and Moncrieff, 1996b) Interaction with environmental air – convection initiation - interaction with ambient vertical shear(Thorpe et al., 1980;Rotunno, 1988; Moncrieff and Liu, 1999) - collision with other gust fronts and convergence lines (Wilson and Schreiber, 1986) - interaction with mesoscale oscillations (Crook et al., 1990) Gust front = an advancing surface boundary of the outflow of thunderstorm downdrafts cooled by evaporation.
potential instability, LCL STABILITY LOCATION 3-dim. position (thermal def.) MORPHOLOGY head height regime of propagation (Liu and Moncrieff, 1996a) VERTICAL SHEAR Methodology (Kaspar, 2003) • Model for the Objective Analysis of Gust Fronts (OAGF) LMCOSMO thermodynamic data, 2.8km (Doms and Schättler, 1999) MOVEMENT speed vector
Convection initiation(a) PI and a low LCL all regimes (b) PS and / or a high LCL the steering-level anddownshear prop. regime Vertical shear conditions • Propagating regime • Upshear movement • Downshear movement • Steering-level (hs) regime Downshear movement with an overturning updraft 1 Relative flow 1 2 2 3 3
Radar SkalkyZmax 13UTC 14UTC 15UTC OA gust fronts + surface precipitation rates [mm/h] OA gust fronts + vertical velocities [m/s] OA gust fronts + potential temperature [K] Case study 2.7.2000- validation tests
c0=7.1m/sH =1180m Downshear propagating regime PI + decreasing LCL Case study 2.7.2000 Height of OA gust heads + RSM [dBZ] (Haase and Crewell, 2000)
SkalkyZmax 01UTC 02UTC 03UTC Case study 22/23.7.1998- squall line(Salek, 2000) OA gust fronts + surface precipitation rates [mm/h]
c0=5.1m/sH=1343m Steering-level regime Potential stability + increasing LCL Case study 22/23.7.1998 OA gust heads + RSM [dBZ]
Conclusions • The validation tests confirmed the applicability of the LM COSMO-OAGF chain in the case of both isolated and multicellular convection. • The propagatinggust fronts had the potential for convection initiation in both presented case studies. • - 2 July 2000: favourable vertical shear, humidity and stability conditions • - 22 / 23 July 1998: favourable vertical shear conditions • - the both case studies are included in a paper accepted for Atmospheric Research (2006)
Outlooks • The tuning and verification of the OAGF will continue. • - radar data assimilation- locating procedures based on the analysis of wind field … • The products of the OAGF are assumed to be used informulating decision criteria. • - total index quantifying the potential of a gust front to trigger new convection Acknowledgement: GA ASCR B3042404, GACR 205/04/0114 DWD (LM and RSM codes), CHMI (radar pictures)
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