observations and modelling of severe windstorms during t-rex: importance of the upstream profile
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School of Earth and Environment ICAS. Observations and modelling of severe windstorms during T-REX: importance of the upstream profile. Ralph Burton 1 , Simon Vosper 2 , Peter Sheridan 2 , Stephen Mobbs 1. 1 Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Observations and modelling of severe windstormsduring T-REX: importance of the upstream profile
Ralph Burton1, Simon Vosper2, Peter Sheridan2, Stephen Mobbs1
1 Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, U.K.2 Met Office, Exeter, U.K.
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Leeds T-REX team: Barbara Brooks, Ian Brooks, Rosey Grant, James Groves, Martin Hill, Matt Hobby, Felicity Perry, Victoria Smith, Will Thurston
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Introduction: T-REX
Comparing models and observations:Relating the winds in the valley to the upstream flow
Summary
School of Earth and EnvironmentICAS
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The biggest field campaign ever mounted to studyrotors/gravity waves
T-REX: March – April 2006
ARL White Sands Missile RangeScripps Institute of Oceanography
Colorado Research AssociatesCooperative Research in Environmental
ScienceDesert Research Institute
DLRLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
UK Met OfficeNASANCAR
Naval Research LaboratoryNOAA
Arizona State UniversityColorado State University
Harvard UniversityUniversity of Houston
University of InnsbruckUniversity of Leeds
University of New HampshireNorth Carolina State
UniversityStanford UniversityUniversity of Utah
Yale University
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From “Hazardous
Mountain Windsand their Visual
Indicators”,1988
Accident rate less than 3 per 100,000Accident rate greater than 3 per 100,000
Accident rate 40% higher in the 11 mountainstates
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DEM of the U.S. showing regionsof elevated terrain
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Will “Thirsty” Thurston
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Inyo Register,March 2006
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Photo: Carlyle Calvin, UCAR
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Schematic of wave-rotor system
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Photo: A. Doernbrack
T-REX IOP6: 25th – 26th March 2006
“A full temporal evolution of a trapped-lee-wave rotor eventwas captured in this IOP. There was a strong and well definedwave/rotor event with wave clouds, roll clouds, cap cloud over the Sierra, and a dust storm in Owens Valley.”
(Mission Summary)
Kuettner 1959
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Hei
ght
(m)
w (m/s)
26th March 2006 6:39PM LT
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What we want to do, in a nutshell:
Take an upstream profile, and attach a number N1 to it
Hei
ght
(km
)
5
10
15
Θ (K)
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What we want to do, in a nutshell:
Take an upstream profile at time T, and attach a number N1 to it
Look at the downstream winds at time T: attach a number N2 to them
Look at lots of cases (different T).Are N1 and N2 related? - Predictability
Hei
ght
(km
)
5
10
15
Θ (K)
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For the downstream winds.
We seek a statistical parameter to describethe effect of severe winds.
From Mobbs et al. 2005 (“Observations of downslope winds and rotorsin the Falkland Islands”, QJRMS, 131, 2839-2860
σ2 = σu2 ++ σv
2 |U| = average wind speed
Produce a time series of σ |U|
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Locations of the AWS: DRI Leeds
Produce a time series of σ |U|
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It is thought that the stratification and the shearof the upstream profile are important parametersin determining the nature of the downstream response.
From Hertenstein and Kuettner, “Rotor types associatedwith steep lee topography: influence of the wind profile”,Tellus A, 57, 117-135
For the upstream profiles.
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UM configuration
UM model simulations for IOP6
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Principal Components Analysis (PCA) of the upstream profiles
Take time series of upstream profiles; UM output every 10 seconds
Perform PCA: extracts two features:
EOFs (Empirical Orthogonal Functions)Describe the dominant structures in the profiles (inversions etc)
PC Scores (Principal Component Scores)A numerical value: a measure of howsimilar the profile is to the dominant structuresat each point in time;
Produce a time series of the principal component scores
PCA is an objective method
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UM: Principal components analysis of the upstream profilebetween 3 and 5 km
These are the dominant structures in the N and dU/dz profilesfor all upstream profiles (sample size: 6840)Maximum in both shear and stability at 4250m
N dU/dz
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Time series of principal components; wind effect parameter σ |U| : UM
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Time series of principal components; wind effect parameter σ |U| : AWS
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Correlations: UM wind effect parameter σ |U| with upstream profile structure
UM winds
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Correlations: AWS wind effect parameter σ |U| with upstream profile structure
AWS winds
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Summary
The dominant structure in the UM profiles between 3km and 5km is a peak in shear and a peak in stability at z = 4250m
There is a very strong ( r = 0.95; r = 0.87) correlation betweenthe UM winds in the valley and the upstream N and dU/dz profiles for all of IOP6 (19 hours);
The correlation is not as strong for the observed winds. But thenthe model is reacting to the model profiles, which may differ slightly to the observed profiles.
Is this behaviour unique? Or does it apply to other IOPs?Ongoing.
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Correlations between first PC score for N and dU/dz