Different Precipitation Mechanisms Produce Heavy Rain With and Without Lightning in Japan

• TAKAHASHI Tsutomu

  Non-affiliated, Hawaii, USA

• KAWANO Tetsuya

  Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

• ISHIHARA Masahito

  Center for Promotion of Interdisciplinary Education and Research (C-Pier), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan

抄録

 During summer, disturbed weather brings frequent bouts of heavy rain to Japan in two types of cloud systems, one with high lightning activity and the other with low lightning frequency. To find the basis for this difference, data from three Baiu and two non-Baiu Japanese heavy rain events in 2008-2009 were compared with videosonde data from various cloud systems across East and Southeast Asia. This analysis suggests that heavy rain is produced by two different precipitation mechanisms: by graupel growth in high-electrical-activity clouds and by frozen drop growth in low-electrical-activity clouds. High electrification is achieved only in graupel-growing clouds, where numerous ice crystals also grow and the riming electrification process is active.

収録刊行物

• 気象集誌. 第2輯

  気象集誌. 第2輯 93 (2), 245-263, 2015

  公益社団法人 日本気象学会

キーワード

• correlation of precipitation mechanism and lightning activity in heavy rain
• Baiu heavy rain and lightning activity
• rain precipitation mechanisms
• lightning activity and charge separation mechanism

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001206505088256
• NII論文ID: 130005069477
• NII書誌ID: AA00702524
• DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2015-014
• ISSN: 21869057
• ISSN: 00261165
• NDL書誌ID: 026351676
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I026351676
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jmsj/93/2/93_2015-014/_pdf
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