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DOI | 10.1175/JAS-D-17-0138.1 |
Spectral Signatures of Moisture-Convection Feedbacks over the Indian Ocean | |
Ahmed, Fiaz1; Schumacher, Courtney2 | |
2018-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
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ISSN | 0022-4928 |
EISSN | 1520-0469 |
出版年 | 2018 |
卷号 | 75期号:6页码:1995-2015 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
英文摘要 | Positive feedbacks between the cloud population and the environmental moisture field are central to theoretical expositions on the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO). This study investigates the statistical incidence of positive moisture-convection feedbacks across multiple space and time scales over the tropical Indian Ocean. This work uses vertically integrated moisture budget terms from the ECMWF interim reanalysis [ERA-Interim (ERA-I)] in a framework proposed by Hannah et al. Positive moisture-convection feedbacks are primarily a low-frequency, low-wavenumber phenomenon with significant spectral signatures in the 32-48-day time scale. The efficacy of these feedbacks, however, is subject to horizontal moisture advection variations, whose relative importance varies with scale. Wave-filtered Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite precipitation is used to show that these moisture-convection feedbacks contribute more to moisture increases in the MJO than in other equatorial waves. A moving-window correlation analysis suggests that instances of moisture-convection feedbacks are more frequent in drier conditions, when column water vapor (CWV) is below its climatological mean value, with the implication that positive moisture-convection feedbacks shape the mean CWV field by moistening drier air columns, but that they are less effective in moistening already moist environments. Ground radar observations show that stratiform rain damps local CWV increases on short time scales (< 2 days) and therefore precludes positive moisture-convection feedbacks in high-CWV environments. Vertical coherence structures from ERA-I confirm that relatively bottom-heavy cloud ensembles (i.e., peaks between 700 and 850 hPa) are more effective in inducing low-frequency positive moisture-convection feedbacks than ensembles with other vertical structures. Low-frequency horizontal advective drying damps moisture increases and is strongly coherent with upper-level rising motion. |
领域 | 地球科学 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000434942300013 |
WOS关键词 | MADDEN-JULIAN OSCILLATION ; STATIC ENERGY BUDGET ; TEMPERATURE-GRADIENT APPROXIMATION ; TROPICAL DEEP CONVECTION ; COUPLED KELVIN WAVES ; COLUMN WATER-VAPOR ; STRATIFORM INSTABILITY ; EQUATORIAL WAVES ; PART I ; INTRASEASONAL OSCILLATIONS |
WOS类目 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/29541 |
专题 | 地球科学 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Calif Los Angeles, Atmospher & Ocean Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA; 2.Texas A&M Univ, Dept Atmospher Sci, College Stn, TX USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ahmed, Fiaz,Schumacher, Courtney. Spectral Signatures of Moisture-Convection Feedbacks over the Indian Ocean[J]. JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,2018,75(6):1995-2015. |
APA | Ahmed, Fiaz,&Schumacher, Courtney.(2018).Spectral Signatures of Moisture-Convection Feedbacks over the Indian Ocean.JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES,75(6),1995-2015. |
MLA | Ahmed, Fiaz,et al."Spectral Signatures of Moisture-Convection Feedbacks over the Indian Ocean".JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES 75.6(2018):1995-2015. |
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