On the Local Rain-Rate Extreme Associated with a Mesovortex over South China: Observational Structures, Characteristics, and Evolution

中尺度气象学 风暴 流出 气候学 环境科学 降水 大气科学 地质学 气象学 物理
作者
Zhilin Zeng,Donghai Wang
出处
期刊:Monthly Weather Review [American Meteorological Society]
卷期号:150 (5): 1075-1096 被引量:4
标识
DOI:10.1175/mwr-d-21-0033.1
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Abstract Extreme short-term hourly rainfall accumulations are shown to be commonly attendant with rotation-featured mesovortices. This study aims to document the detailed aspects of mesovortex-related extreme rain rates in a record-breaking event that occurred over South China on 7 May 2017 through high-resolution observations, and to reveal how the mesoscale storm contributes to the extreme rain rates, with special attention given to the minute rain-rate enhancement episode (MREE). The event accumulation possesses highly local distribution, with a spatial rainfall core. Extreme rain rates are dictated by a meso- γ -scale storm, and it is found that the observed rain rate is well correlated to storm-related maximum reflectivity in the lowest 2 km above ground level (AGL) as well as its reflectivity centroid (i.e., reflectivity factor exceeding 50 dB Z ) depth. The cross section reveals that the storm structure evolves progressively into a single centroid, which subsequently descends to the near surface, resulting in the rain-rate peak (4.8 mm min −1 ). Extremely weak environmental mean flow interacts with the near-opposite storm propagation that determines the slow storm movement, prolonging local rainfall. Rainfall-induced cold outflow surges ahead unevenly, leading to an inhomogeneous mesoscale outflow boundary (IMOB) at low levels. A mesovortex subsequently develops along the IMOB in the lowest ∼5.5 km AGL, with a horizontal radius of 1.5–3 km. A mesoscale low-level jet observed over the upstream of the storm increases the low-level shear despite short duration, which provide potential dynamics for the storm and mesovortex development. These results help us better understand the generation of extreme rain rates in small spatiotemporal scale. Significance Statement Despite many extreme short-duration rainfall events linking to low-level rotation phenomenon, we are still exploring how these rotations develop within extreme-rainfall-producing storms. While past studies have found that these low-level rotations within such storms are conducive to enhancing rainfall, rotation characteristics are less understood. In this study, we examine how the rotations develop during an episode of observed-rainfall rise. The results reveal that the cold airflows resulted from the storm-inducing rainfall impinge unevenly on warm moist southerly wind, leading to such low-level rotation. The rainfall observed per minute is found to associate well with low-level rotation that develops upward. These results further motivate exploration of extreme short-duration rainfall and storm-related rotation.
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