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contributor authorDearden, C.
contributor authorVaughan, G.
contributor authorTsai, T.
contributor authorChen, J.-P.
date accessioned2017-06-09T17:33:15Z
date available2017-06-09T17:33:15Z
date copyright2016/04/01
date issued2016
identifier issn0027-0644
identifier otherams-87143.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4230780
description abstractumerical simulations are performed with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model to elucidate the diabatic effects of ice phase microphysical processes on the dynamics of two slow-moving summer cyclones that affected the United Kingdom during the summer of 2012. The first case is representative of a typical midlatitude storm for the time of year, while the second case is unusually deep. Sensitivity tests are performed with 5-km horizontal grid spacing and at lead times between 1 and 2 days using three different microphysics schemes, one of which is a new scheme whose development was informed by the latest in situ observations of midlatitude weather systems. The effects of latent heating and cooling associated with deposition growth, sublimation, and melting of ice are assessed in terms of the impact on both the synoptic scale and the frontal scale. The results show that, of these diabatic processes, deposition growth was the most important in both cases, affecting the depth and position of each of the low pressure systems and influencing the spatial distribution of the frontal precipitation. Cooling associated with sublimation and melting also played a role in determining the cyclone depth, but mainly in the more intense cyclone case. The effects of ice crystal habit and secondary ice production are also explored in the simulations, based on insight from in situ observations. However in these two cases, the ability to predict changes in crystal habit did not significantly impact the storm evolution, and the authors found no obvious need to parameterize secondary ice crystal production at the model resolutions considered.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleExploring the Diabatic Role of Ice Microphysical Processes in Two North Atlantic Summer Cyclones
typeJournal Paper
journal volume144
journal issue4
journal titleMonthly Weather Review
identifier doi10.1175/MWR-D-15-0253.1
journal fristpage1249
journal lastpage1272
treeMonthly Weather Review:;2016:;volume( 144 ):;issue: 004
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