TY - JOUR
T1 - Origin of the pre-tropical storm Debby (2006) African easterly wave-mesoscale convective system
AU - Lin, Yuh Lang
AU - Liu, Liping
AU - Tang, Guoqing
AU - Spinks, James
AU - Jones, Wilson
PY - 2013/5/1
Y1 - 2013/5/1
N2 - The origins of the pre-Debby (2006) mesoscale convective system (MCS) and African easterly wave (AEW) and their precursors were traced back to the southwest Arabian Peninsula, Asir Mountains (AS), and Ethiopian Highlands (EH) in the vicinity of the ITCZ using satellite imagery, GFS analysis data and ARW model. The sources of the convective cloud clusters and vorticity perturbations were attributed to the cyclonic convergence of northeasterly Shamal wind and the Somali jet, especially when the Mediterranean High shifted toward east and the Indian Ocean high strengthened and its associated Somali jet penetrated farther to the north. The cyclonic vorticity perturbations were strengthened by the vorticity stretching associated with convective cloud clusters in the genesis region-southwest Arabian Peninsula. A conceptual model was proposed to explain the genesis of convective cloud clusters and cyclonic vorticity perturbations preceding the pre-Debby (2006) AEW-MCS system. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Wien.
AB - The origins of the pre-Debby (2006) mesoscale convective system (MCS) and African easterly wave (AEW) and their precursors were traced back to the southwest Arabian Peninsula, Asir Mountains (AS), and Ethiopian Highlands (EH) in the vicinity of the ITCZ using satellite imagery, GFS analysis data and ARW model. The sources of the convective cloud clusters and vorticity perturbations were attributed to the cyclonic convergence of northeasterly Shamal wind and the Somali jet, especially when the Mediterranean High shifted toward east and the Indian Ocean high strengthened and its associated Somali jet penetrated farther to the north. The cyclonic vorticity perturbations were strengthened by the vorticity stretching associated with convective cloud clusters in the genesis region-southwest Arabian Peninsula. A conceptual model was proposed to explain the genesis of convective cloud clusters and cyclonic vorticity perturbations preceding the pre-Debby (2006) AEW-MCS system. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Wien.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00703-013-0248-6
DO - 10.1007/s00703-013-0248-6
M3 - Article
SN - 0177-7971
VL - 120
SP - 123
EP - 144
JO - Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
JF - Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
IS - 3-4
ER -