Advances in Earth Science ›› 2019, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (7): 717-730. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2019.07.0717

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Simulation Study on the Impact of Taihang Mountain Slopes on Downhill Front Cyclone Rainstorm

Jianhong Wang 1, 4( ),Meng Zhang 1, 2,Shuyuan Ren 5,Xing Wang 3, 6,Chunsheng Miao 3, 6   

  1. 1. Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology,Nanjing 210044,China
    2. Jilin Meteorological Service Center,Changchun 130062,China
    3. College of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044,China
    4. School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044,China
    5. Lanzhou Meteorological Observatory, Lanzhou 730020, China
    6. Nanjing Xinda Institute of Meteorological Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
  • Received:2019-01-07 Revised:2019-05-20 Online:2019-07-10 Published:2019-07-29
  • About author:Wang Jianhong (1956-), female, Shanghai City, Professor. Research areas include atmospheric and oceanic dynamics.E-mail: 1597706505@qq.com
  • Supported by:
    ect supported by the National Natural Science Foundation “The dynamic structures and maintaining mechanism of oceanic meso-scale eddies”(41276033);forecast and early-warning of downburst”(41805033)

Jianhong Wang,Meng Zhang,Shuyuan Ren,Xing Wang,Chunsheng Miao. Simulation Study on the Impact of Taihang Mountain Slopes on Downhill Front Cyclone Rainstorm[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2019, 34(7): 717-730.

The statistical and diagnostic analysis of precipitation in Hebei Province in the past six years shows that the mid-south of the North China Plain on the east side of the Taihang Mountains is an area of frequent rainstorm disasters in summer. The rain belt is mostly distributed along the Taihang Mountains, and the rainfall is often over 700mm. Focus was on the summer downhill frontal Yellow River cyclone, which accounted for 20% of the 73 storm days in the statistical samples. The analysis of the typical frontal cyclone heavy rain in 2016 shows that the meridional distribution of the Taihang Mountains cooperates with the climbing mountain jet in the north of the cyclone and the southward flow in the west of the cyclone, leading to the formation of a deep narrow cold temperature trough along the mountain orientation. It enhances the temperature gradient in the frontal cyclone, enhances the baroclinicity of the cyclone and the intensity of the rotating wind, resulting in augmentation of the cyclone and slowing of the eastward movement. Through the cooperation of the entanglement of the cyclone jet and the mountain block, a deep and abundant water vapor environment is formed, and the moving westward of water vapor flux and the low-level water vapor main body are hindered; The high-energy tongue convection instability on the eastern side of the mountain range is formed, a strong uplift with abundant water vapor masses is triggered, and three critical areas of vertical motion occurred, which restricts the rainstorm locations. Numerical experiments on the mechanism of the influence of the slope of the Taihang Mountains on heavy rain show that the downhill rainstorm area is parallel to the mountain range, and the meridional mountain range can cause a greater range of heavy precipitation. It is also easy to cause double frontal precipitation locally by a same cyclonic warm front and cold front, resulting in a long duration of heavy rain. The slope of the mountain is proportional to the intensity of the mountain block and forms the wet convection instability with the dry at lower and wet at upper overlapping on a thermal instability of the front zone with cold at lower and warm at upper, such as the total instability is stronger. The slope of the mountain is proportional to the increase and maintenance time of the cyclone decompression during downhill. It is inversely proportional to the decline to the North China Plain, which affects the path and speed of the cyclone eastward movement.

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