A Numerical Simulation Study of the Southwest Vortex Mechanism during the "6·30" Heavy Rain Event in Sichuan and Chongqing

  • Chengzhi DENG ,
  • Yu ZHAO ,
  • Fanyou KONG ,
  • Danhua ZHAI ,
  • Qiang LI ,
  • Yue HE
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  • <sup>1.</sup>Chongqing Meteorological Bureau,Chongqing 401147,China;<sup>2.</sup>Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters (CIC-FEMD) /Key Laboratory,Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education(KLME),NUIST,Nanjing 210044,Jiangsu,China;<sup>3.</sup>Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms,University of Oklahoma,Norman 73072,USA

Received date: 2019-09-23

  Online published: 2021-02-28

Abstract

The Southwest Vortex weather event that brought extremely heavy rainfall in regions across Sichuan and Chongqing from 29 June to 2 July 2013 was analyzed using datasets from intensive automatic weather stations, NCEP reanalysis (1°×1°) and WRF-ARW numerical simulations.This extremely heavy rainfall episode could be classified into three stages, with the primary precipitation process occurred in the second stage that was closely associated with the Southwest Vortex development.The analyses revealed that: (1) The Southwest Vortex in this case, after emerged, exhibited enhance-weaken-enhance pattern, with vorticity intensification during morning and midnight on 30 June, respectively, peaked in the second period.(2) Low-level convergence was the primary origin of positive vorticity throughout the Southwest Vortex life cycle.Mid-level convergence and vertical transport of vorticity increased significantly during the second intensification period of the Southwest Vortex.(3) The low-level convergence was maintained by negative non-equilibrium dynamic forcing, mainly attributed to Laplace term of potential height.(4) Diabatic heating intensified ahead of Southwest Vortex’s intensification.The positive feedback between the two might be a key mechanism for the development of the Southwest Vortex.Sensitivity experiments using WRF model simulations with latent heating from microphysics and sensible and latent heat fluxes from the surface turned off produced weaker Southwest Vortex and precipitation.

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Chengzhi DENG , Yu ZHAO , Fanyou KONG , Danhua ZHAI , Qiang LI , Yue HE . A Numerical Simulation Study of the Southwest Vortex Mechanism during the "6·30" Heavy Rain Event in Sichuan and Chongqing[J]. Plateau Meteorology, 2021 , 40(1) : 85 -97 . DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-0534.2019.00106

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