Detailed Structure of Wind and Moisture Fields around the Baiu Frontal Zone over the East China Sea

• Maeda Shinichiro

  Hydropheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

• Tsuboki Kazuhisa

  Hydropheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

• Moteki Qoosaku

  Institute of Observational Research for Global Change, JAMSTEC

• Shinoda Taro

  Hydropheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

• Minda Haruya

  Hydropheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

• Uyeda Hiroshi

  Hydropheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University

Abstract

An aircraft observation was conducted over the East China Sea to reveal detailed distributions of wind and moisture around the Baiu frontal zone. Using a numerical simulation, the structure of the Baiu frontal zone was examined and four airstreams around the zone were identified: northeasterly, west-southwesterly, and southwesterly along the Baiu frontal cloud zone, as well as southwesterly along the oceanic zone. Each airstream had different characteristics of stratification. These differences and the convergence of the airstreams resulted in two different rainfall areas: a weak and wide rainfall area in the northern part of the cloud zone, and an intense and narrow rainfall area in the southern part.

Journal

• SOLA

  SOLA 4 141-144, 2008

  Meteorological Society of Japan

Keywords

• Atmospheric Science

Details

• CRID: 1390282680198782720
• NII Article ID: 130004448465
• DOI: 10.2151/sola.2008-036
• ISSN: 13496476
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sola/4/0/4_0_141/_pdf
• Text Lang: en
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