Affiliation:
1. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Abstract
Abstract
The influencing factors of the long-term stagnation of the Baiu front that induced heavy rainfall in July 2020 over Kyushu, Japan, were examined. In July 2020, the position of the Baiu front from a weather chart at 130°E remained stationary over Kyushu for 20 days, and that was the longest from 2002–2021. By examining a certain index of the Yellow Sea High (YSH), which is a necessary condition for Baiu front stagnation near Kyushu, it was confirmed that in 2020, a positive high-pressure anomaly persisted over the Yellow Sea until the end of July. The YSH maintenance was due to the significant negative sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly over the Yellow Sea. The significant negative SST anomalies in the Yellow Sea were due to vertical mixing in ocean mixed layer in response to the strong winds of the extratropical cyclones. A rapid SST decrease ranging from 0.5–1.5°C/day was repeatedly occurred by ocean mixed layer deepening in association with the passage of the extratropical cyclones. The anomalous long-term stagnation of YSH due to the negative SST anomalies could have caused the Baiu front to remain stagnant over Kyushu until the end of July.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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