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http://dx.doi.org/10.14191/Atmos.2013.23.3.293

Nonhydrostatic Effects on Convectively Forced Mesoscale Flows  

Woo, Sora (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
Baik, Jong-Jin (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
Lee, Hyunho (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
Han, Ji-Young (Korea Institute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems)
Seo, Jaemyeong Mango (School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University)
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Atmosphere / v.23, no.3, 2013 , pp. 293-305 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nonhydrostatic effects on convectively forced mesoscale flows in two dimensions are numerically investigated using a nondimensional model. An elevated heating that represents convective heating due to deep cumulus convection is specified in a uniform basic flow with constant stability, and numerical experiments are performed with different values of the nonlinearity factor and nonhydrostaticity factor. The simulation result in a linear system is first compared to the analytic solution. The simulated vertical velocity field is very similar to the analytic one, confirming the high accuracy of nondimensional model's solutions. When the nonhydrostaticity factor is small, alternating regions of upward and downward motion above the heating top appear. On the other hand, when the nonhydrostaticity factor is relatively large, alternating updraft and downdraft cells appear downwind of the main updraft region. These features according to the nonhydrostaticity factor appear in both linear and nonlinear flow systems. The location of the maximum vertical velocity in the main updraft region differs depending on the degrees of nonlinearity and nonhydrostaticity. Using the Taylor-Goldstein equation in a linear, steady-state, invscid system, it is analyzed that evanescent waves exist for a given nonhydrostaticity factor. The critical wavelength of an evanescent wave is given by ${\lambda}_c=2{\pi}{\beta}$, where ${\beta}$ is the nonhydrostaticity factor. Waves whose wavelengths are smaller than the critical wavelength become evanescent. The alternating updraft and downdraft cells are formed by the superposition of evanescent waves and horizontally propagating parts of propagating waves. Simulation results show that the horizontal length of the updraft and downdraft cells is the half of the critical wavelength (${\pi}{\beta}$) in a linear flow system and larger than ${\pi}{\beta}$ in a weakly nonlinear flow system.
Keywords
Convection; mesoscale flows; nonhydrostatic effects; evanescent waves;
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