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Title: Mesoscale Convective Systems


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Mesoscale Convective Systems   Robert
Houze Department of Atmospheric
Sciences University of Washington
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
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Figure CONVSF
Precipitation in a Mesoscale Convective System
Houze 1997
Houze 1997
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Heating Cooling Processes in an MCS
Houze 1982
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Idealized Heating Profiles of MCSs
Non-dimensional Heating
Houze 1982
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Circulation Pattern of an MCS, ca 1989
Mesoscale circulation features identified, but
suggests air enters updraft from thin surface
layer
Houze et al. 1989
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Layer lifting
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TOGA COARE Airborne Doppler Observations of MCSs
25 convective region flights Show deep layer of
inflow to updrafts
Kingsmill Houze 1999
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Bryan and Fritsch 2000Analysis and simulation of
midlatitude continental convection
Slab or Layer Overturning
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Mechem et al. 2000Simulation of tropical oceanic
convection
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Pandya Durran 1996
Mean heating in convective line
Horizontal wind
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Simulation of an MCS over the tropical ocean,
near Kwajalein Courtesy Professor Rob Fovell
Gentle, persistent lifting ahead of line
Lower troposphere above boundary layer cooler,
more moist, and less stable
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Discrete Propagation
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Loop showing tropical discrete propagation in an
MCS over Oklahoma
Courtesy Professor Rob Fovell
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Loop showing tropical discrete propagation in an
MCS over the Bay of Bengal
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Midlevel Inflow
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Heating Cooling Processes in an MCS
Houze 1982
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Figure CONVSF
Midlevel inflow can come from any direction
Houze 1997
rear inflow
Houze 1997
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TOGA COARE Airborne Doppler Observations of MCSs
25 Stratiform region flights
Kingsmill Houze 1999
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Heating, PV generation, upscale feedbacks
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Sizes of MCSs observed in TOGA COARE
Chen et al. 1996
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Divergence Profiles of MCSs over West Pacific
Courtesy Brian Mapes
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PV Generation by an MCS
Fritsch et al. 1994(based on Raymond Jiang
1990)
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Vortex Spinup by an MCS
Chen Frank 1993
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Development of a Tropical Cyclone from an MCS
Bister and Emanuel 1997
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Idealized Heating Profiles of MCSs
Stratiform region vortex builds down and sfc
fluxeswarm low levels
Non-dimensional Heating
Houze 1982
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Interaction of MCSs with Synoptic-scale Easterly
Wave
From AMMA Science Plan Thorncroft et al. 2004
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What about momentum feedbacks?
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Perturbation pressure field in a simulated MCS
Yang Houze 1996
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Momentum changes produced by different parts of
simulated MCS
Yang Houze 1996
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Stratiform region momentum transport in TOGA
COARE MCS of 11 February 1993 As seen by ship
radar
reflectivity
stratiformecho
SW
NE
Doppler velocity
midlevel inflow
Downward momentumtransport
Houze et al. 2000
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Stratiform region momentum transport in TOGA
COARE MCS of 15 December 1992 As seen by ship
radar
0.5 km
Houze et al. 2000
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TOGA COARE Ship and aircraft radar data relative
to Kelvin-Rossby wave structure
Low-level flow
strong westerly region
westerlyonset region
Houze et al. 2000
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Mesoscale model simulation of MCS in westerly
onset regime Perturbation momentum structure
Mechem et al. 2004
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Mesoscale model simulation of MCS in strong
westerly regime Perturbation momentum structure
Mechem et al. 2004
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Strong Westerly Case
Momentum fluxes and flux convergences for
simulated cases
feedback
Westerly Onset Case
- feedback
Mechem et al. 2004
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Global satellite observations Global variability
of MCS structure
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TRMM Precipitation Radar Schumacher Houze 2003
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Large-scale response to precipitation heating
Hartmann et al. 1984Schumacher et al. 2004
400 mb heating
200 mb stream function
4 month El Nino season 1998
Most realistic when horizontal distribution of
vertical profile of heating is correct
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The variation of stratiform and convective
structure of MCSs is most pronounced between
land ocean
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TRMM view of Africa vis a vis the Atlantic AMMA
Science Plan, Thorncroft 2004
Rain
Stratiform Rain Fraction
MCSs with large 85GHz ice scattering
Lightning
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India Another example of continental MCS
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Buoyancy Produced Pressure Minimum in an MCS
LeMone 1983
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