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Comparison of Dynamic Characteristics of Two Short-time Heavy Precipitation Processes of Baroclinic-Frontogenesis in the Early Flood Period of Southeast Gansu
XIAO Wei, FU Zhao, XU Lili, LIU Weicheng, DI Xiaohong, ZHENG Xin, YANG Xiumei
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2021, 39 (4): 641-651.  
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Abstract: The two regional shorttime heavy precipitation processes occurred in southeastern Gansu on April 19-20, 2019 (hereinafter using abbreviation “4·19”) and on April 26-27, 2019 (hereinafter using abbreviation “4·26”). Based on the conventional meteorological observations and ERA5 reanalysis data, the dynamic characteristics of two processes were analyzed through the diagnosis of physical quantities including frontogenesis function, temperature advection and vertical wind shear. The results are as follows: (1) The two processes belonged to baroclinicfrontogenesis severe convection, in which cold advection existed in the upper air, cold and warm air converged in low level, and obvious cold fronts and cold shear lines existed on the ground. (2) Under the same significant baroclinic atmospheric conditions, the dynamic characteristics of the two processes were significantly different. “4·19” process presented the characteristics of frontal precipitation, in which the cold air was relatively deep, strong and cold advection in the middle and low layers drove the lowlevel frontogenesis, and convection occurred under the dynamic unstable conditions forced by uplift of the front. However, “4·26” process had obvious characteristics of convective precipitation, in which cold air was diffused in the lower and near ground layers, and convective activity occurred under the combined action of near ground layer frontogenesis and lowlevel jets, and it was dominated by thermal instability. (3) The frontogenesis functions on 700 hPa and 850 hPa could quantitatively describe the temporal and spatial distribution and evolution characteristics of affecting systems in the lowlevel and near ground layer. Since the near ground layer trigger system was difficult to define due to the influence of terrain, especially in “4·19” process the pathes of cold air in the lower layer and near ground layer were complicated, the frontogenesis function could be used as a physical quantity index for the near ground layer trigger system.


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