Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves Simulated on an Aquaplanet in a Global Nonhydrostatic ExperimentSource: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2008:;Volume( 065 ):;issue: 004::page 1246DOI: 10.1175/2007JAS2395.1Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Large-scale tropical convective disturbances simulated in a 7-km-mesh aquaplanet experiment are investigated. A 40-day simulation was executed using the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM). Two scales of eastward-propagating disturbances were analyzed. One was tightly coupled to a convective system resembling super?cloud clusters (SCCs) with a zonal scale of several thousand kilometers (SCC mode), whereas the other was characterized by a planetary-scale dynamical structure (40 000-km mode). The typical phase velocity was 17 (23) m s?1 for the SCC (40 000 km) mode. The SCC mode resembled convectively coupled Kelvin waves in the real atmosphere around the equator, but was accompanied by a pair of off-equatorial gyres. The 40 000-km mode maintained a Kelvin wave?like zonal structure, even poleward of the equatorial Rossby deformation radius. The equatorial structures in both modes matched neutral eastward-propagating gravity waves in the lower troposphere and unstable (growing) waves in the upper troposphere. In both modes, the meridional mass divergence exceeded the zonal component, not only in the boundary layer, but also in the free atmosphere. The forcing terms indicated that the meridional flow was primarily driven by convection via deformation in pressure fields and vertical circulations. Moisture convergence was one order of magnitude greater than the moisture flux from the sea surface. In the boundary layer, frictional convergence in the (anomalous) low-level easterly phase accounted for the buildup of low-level moisture leading to the active convective phase. The moisture distribution in the free atmosphere suggested that the moisture?convection feedback operated efficiently, especially in the SCC mode.
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contributor author | Nasuno, Tomoe | |
contributor author | Tomita, Hirofumi | |
contributor author | Iga, Shinichi | |
contributor author | Miura, Hiroaki | |
contributor author | Satoh, Masaki | |
date accessioned | 2017-06-09T16:18:45Z | |
date available | 2017-06-09T16:18:45Z | |
date copyright | 2008/04/01 | |
date issued | 2008 | |
identifier issn | 0022-4928 | |
identifier other | ams-65533.pdf | |
identifier uri | http://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4206769 | |
description abstract | Large-scale tropical convective disturbances simulated in a 7-km-mesh aquaplanet experiment are investigated. A 40-day simulation was executed using the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM). Two scales of eastward-propagating disturbances were analyzed. One was tightly coupled to a convective system resembling super?cloud clusters (SCCs) with a zonal scale of several thousand kilometers (SCC mode), whereas the other was characterized by a planetary-scale dynamical structure (40 000-km mode). The typical phase velocity was 17 (23) m s?1 for the SCC (40 000 km) mode. The SCC mode resembled convectively coupled Kelvin waves in the real atmosphere around the equator, but was accompanied by a pair of off-equatorial gyres. The 40 000-km mode maintained a Kelvin wave?like zonal structure, even poleward of the equatorial Rossby deformation radius. The equatorial structures in both modes matched neutral eastward-propagating gravity waves in the lower troposphere and unstable (growing) waves in the upper troposphere. In both modes, the meridional mass divergence exceeded the zonal component, not only in the boundary layer, but also in the free atmosphere. The forcing terms indicated that the meridional flow was primarily driven by convection via deformation in pressure fields and vertical circulations. Moisture convergence was one order of magnitude greater than the moisture flux from the sea surface. In the boundary layer, frictional convergence in the (anomalous) low-level easterly phase accounted for the buildup of low-level moisture leading to the active convective phase. The moisture distribution in the free atmosphere suggested that the moisture?convection feedback operated efficiently, especially in the SCC mode. | |
publisher | American Meteorological Society | |
title | Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves Simulated on an Aquaplanet in a Global Nonhydrostatic Experiment | |
type | Journal Paper | |
journal volume | 65 | |
journal issue | 4 | |
journal title | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences | |
identifier doi | 10.1175/2007JAS2395.1 | |
journal fristpage | 1246 | |
journal lastpage | 1265 | |
tree | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences:;2008:;Volume( 065 ):;issue: 004 | |
contenttype | Fulltext |