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项目编号 | 1725190 |
Quantifying Entrainment and its Effects in Isolated, Sheared Cumuli and Thunderstorms | |
Sonia Lasher-Trapp | |
主持机构 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
项目开始年 | 2017 |
2017-09-01 | |
项目结束日期 | 2020-08-31 |
资助机构 | US-NSF |
项目类别 | Continuing grant |
项目经费 | 549738(USD) |
国家 | 美国 |
语种 | 英语 |
英文摘要 | Earth's precipitation is primarily produced by deep cumulus clouds. Many aspects of cumulus convection are affected by entrainment, the process by which turbulent clouds introduce dry air from outside the cloud. Entrainment results in the dilution of the cloud which decreases the updraft speed and cloud height, and potentially prevents precipitation formation. This award will provide funding for the systematic investigation of entrainment in storms that occur in regions with environmental wind shear, the conditions that can sustain supercell thunderstorms. The researcher plans to develop general relationships between wind shear, cumulus entrainment, and convective precipitation which can be used to improve prediction of thunderstorm initiation, and rain, hail and lightning that form within these storms. In addition, the project will contribute to the development of two early-career researchers who will be trained in atmospheric science and high performance computing. Prior research on cumulus entrainment has largely not taken wind shear into consideration. This project will use the CM1 cloud model to address three main hypotheses: 1) Unidirectional vertical wind shear enhances entrainment (compared to the non-sheared case) into a cloud updraft in its thermal-like stage, but directional vertical wind shear decreases this enhancement, 2) In environments with sufficiently strong vertical wind shear to generate a rotating updraft, the thermal-like initial updraft transforms into a jet-like updraft, decreasing the entrainment into, and dilution of, the rotating updraft, 3) The increased entrainment and dilution into a cloud updraft in its thermal stage, and the decreased entrainment and dilution of the jet stage results in non-negligible (>10%) decreases and increases (respectively) in precipitation production within the storm. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/71912 |
专题 | 环境与发展全球科技态势 |
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