THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HORIZONTAL VORTICITY INDUCED BY VERTICAL SHEAR AND VERTICAL MOTION DURING A SQUALL LINE PROCESS  

作　　者：ZHAO Xiang-jun DING Zhi-ying 赵向军;丁治英(Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology/Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster co-funded by Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Province,Jiangsu Nanjing 210044 China;State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather,Chinese Academy of Meteorological of Sciences,Beijing 100081 China)

机构地区：[1]Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology/Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster co-fimded by Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu Nanjing 210044 China [2]State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Chinese Academy of Meteorological of Sciences, Beijing 100081 China

出　　处：《Journal of Tropical Meteorology》2018年第1期1-14,共14页热带气象学报（英文版）

基　　金：National Key Basic Research Development Program“973”(2013CB430103);State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather,Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences(2015LASW-A07);National Natural Science Funding(41375058,41530427)

摘　　要：The horizontal vorticity equation used in this study was obtained using the equations of motion in the pressure coordinate system without considering friction, to reveal its relationship with vertical shear. By diagnostically analyzing each term in the horizontal vorticity equation during a squall line process that occurred on 19 June 2010, we found that the non-thermal wind term had a negative contribution to the local change of upward movement in the low-level atmosphere, and that its impact changed gradually from negative to positive with altitude, which could influence upward movement in the mid-and upper-level atmosphere greatly. The contribution of upward vertical transport to vertical movement was the largest in the low-level atmosphere, but had negative contribution to the upper-level atmosphere. These features were most evident in the development stage of the squall line. Based on analysis of convection cells along a squall line, we found that in the process of cell development diabatic heating caused the subsidence of constant potential temperature surface and non-geostrophic motion, which then triggered strong convergence of horizontal acceleration in the mid-level atmosphere and divergence of horizontal acceleration in the upper-level atmosphere. These changes of horizontal wind field could cause a counterclockwise increment of the horizontal vorticity around the warm cell, which then generated an increase of upward movement. This was the main reason why the non-thermal wind term had the largest contribution to the strengthening of upward movement in the mid-and upper-level atmosphere. The vertical transport of large value of horizontal vorticity was the key to trigger convection in this squall line process.The horizontal vorticity equation used in this study was obtained using the equations of motion in the pressure coordinate system without considering friction, to reveal its relationship with vertical shear. By diagnostically analyzing each term in the horizontal vorticity equation during a squall line process that occurred on 19 June 2010, we found that the non-thermal wind term had a negative contribution to the local change of upward movement in the low-level atmosphere, and that its impact changed gradually from negative to positive with altitude, which could influence upward movement in the mid- and upper-level atmosphere greatly. The contribution of upward vertical transport to vertical movement was the largest in the low-level atmosphere, but had negative contribution to the upper-level atmosphere. These features were most evident in the development stage of the squall line. Based on analysis of convection cells along a squall line, we found that in the process of cell development diabatic heating caused the subsidence of constant potential temperature surface and non-geostrophic motion, which then triggered strong convergence of horizontal acceleration in the mid-level atmosphere and divergence of horizontal acceleration in the upper-level atmosphere. These changes of horizontal wind field could cause a counterclockwise increment of the horizontal vorticity around the warm cell, which then generated an increase of upward movement. This was the main reason why the non-thermal wind term had the largest contribution to the strengthening of upward movement in the mid- and upper-level atmosphere. The vertical transport of large value of horizontal vorticity was the key to trigger convection in this squall line process.

关 键 词：horizontal vorticity horizontal vorticity equation vorticity of horizontal vorticity squall line non-thermal wind 

分 类 号：P458.2[天文地球—大气科学及气象学]