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Comparative analysis of two rainstorm cases in Longnan of Gansu Province
SHI Yanzhao, LIU Weicheng, FU Zhao, FU Zhengxu, XU Lili, ZHENG Xin
Journal of Arid Meteorology    2024, 42 (1): 107-116.   DOI: 10. 11755/j. issn. 1006-7639(2024)-01-0107
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In August 2017, there were torrential rains in Longnan, Gansu Province. The 24-hour precipitation at the Li County and
Wudu weather stations broke through the historical extreme values, with obvious extremes and localities. Based on ERA5 reanalysis data of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, radar data and ground observation data, a comparative analysis of two heavy rain cases that occurred in Longnan, Gansu Province from 6 to 7 and from 19 to 20 August 2017 are carried out. The circulation background and the radar reflectivity factor, radial velocity and physical quantity characteristics of the heavy rainfall processes of the two cases are discussed emphatically. The results show that the two rainstorms all occurred at the intersection between the northerly airflow in the westerly trough and the southerly warm and humid airflow in the middle-lower layer, but the main impact systems and triggering conditions are different. The radar echo shows from August 6 to 7, the convective system caused by the cold shear line is stronger, with higher reflectivity factor, lower central height, higher precipitation rate and shorter duration. The reflectivity factor of precipitation in warm region from August 19 to 20 is lower, and its central height is higher, and the precipitation rate is smaller, and the precipitation process maintained for longer time.

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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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