Affiliation:
1. Independent Researcher, 96, Rue du Port David, 45370 Dry, France
Abstract
Based on case studies, the development of low-pressure systems leading to extreme precipitation events reveals common characteristics. They highlight the co-evolution of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies and the clustering of mesoscale convective systems in characteristic period ranges according to harmonic modes of the annual declination of the sun. This suggests a quasi-resonance of the heat exchanges of the ocean and the atmosphere during cyclogenesis. The formation of coherent extensive positive SST anomalies in characteristic period ranges, which reflects various interactions from baroclinic waves at mid-latitudes, i.e., Rossby waves especially present where the western boundary currents move away from the continents, may be a precursor of an extreme heavy rainfall event. Fed by warm and humid air coming from coherent SST anomalies, the convective cyclonic system strengthens concomitantly with the formation of cut-off lows, favoring blocks. However, the concentration in space and time of large-amplitude rainfall anomalies requires a relative stability of the atmospheric blocking circulation during the slow maturation processes. Intensification of extratropical cyclones is presumably the consequence of natural and anthropogenic warming, which strengthens the mechanisms leading to the clustering of mesoscale convective systems. The present study should help to refine the prediction of these extreme events while contributing to enrich our understanding of their presumed link with global warming.
Subject
Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology,Civil and Structural Engineering
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