Abstract: The relative importance of latent beat release and surface sensible heat flux in a case of East Asian coastal cyclogenesis were investigated by performing numerical experiments with the ECMWF limited-area model. In the ...

Abstract: Severe dust storms frequently occur over northwestern China during spring. They are often associated with strong fronts. In this paper, numerical simulations are performed to examine the effect of dust radiative heating ...

Abstract: To explicitly describe the energy exchange between meso and synoptic-scale motions, a diagnostic scheme of kinetic energy has been developed. By using a horizontal filtering technique, meteorological variables are separated ...

Abstract: A real-time quasi-geostrophic omega diagnostic scheme, based on Hoskins' Q-vector analysis and developed by Barnes, was applied to a cold mesoscale vortex with severe convection over northeast China in summer. The limited ...

Abstract: The climatology of explosive cyclogenesis off the east Asian coast was studied, based on 30 years (1958?87) of surface analyses. There were two favorable areas for explosive deepening, one over the eastern Sea of Japan, ...

Abstract: A climatological analysis of cyclogenesis over east Asia and the adjacent northwest Pacific for the period 1958?87 based on the Beijing Meteorological Center' historical surface maps is presented. The most active cyclogenetic ...

Abstract: On 12?13 June 1991, a series of convective rainstorms (defined as mesoscale precipitation systems with rainfall rates exceeding 10 mm h?1) developed successively along the Mei-Yu front. During this event, new rainstorms ...

Abstract: On 7 June 1998, a mesoscale convective system (MCS), associated with a mesoscale cyclone, was initiated on the south side of a mei-yu front near Hong Kong and developed over the Taiwan Strait. In this study, numerical ...

Abstract: Typhoon Winnie (1997) was the fourth supertyphoon in the western North Pacific in 1997. In its mature stage, an outer eyewall, consisting of deep convection with a diameter of 370 km, was observed by satellite and radar. ...