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- Title
Quantification of the Land Surface and Brown Ocean Influence on Tropical Cyclone Intensification over Land.
- Authors
JINWOONG YOO; SANTANELLO JR., JOSEPH A.; SHEPHERD, MARSHALL; KUMAR, SUJAY; LAWSTON, PATRICIA; THOMAS, ANDREW M.
- Abstract
An investigation of Tropical Cyclone (TC) Kelvin in February 2018 over northeast Australia was conducted to understand the mechanisms of the brown ocean effect (BOE) and to develop a comprehensive analysis framework for landfalling TCs in the process. NASA's Land Information System (LIS) coupled to the NASA Unified WRF (NU-WRF) system was employed as the numerical model framework for 12 land/soil moisture perturbation experiments. Impacts of soil moisture and surface enthalpy flux conditions on TC Kelvin were investigated by closely evaluating simulated track and intensity, midlevel atmospheric thermodynamic properties, vertical wind shear, total precipitable water (TPW), and surface moisture flux. The results suggest that there were recognized differentiations among the sensitivity simulations as a result of land surface (e.g., soil moisture and texture) conditions. However, the intensification of TC Kelvin over land was more strongly related to atmospheric moisture advection and the diurnal cycle of solar radiation (i.e., radiative cooling) than to overall soil moisture conditions or surface fluxes. The analysis framework employed here for TC Kelvin can serve as a foundation to specifically quantify the factors governing the BOE. It also demonstrates that the BOE is not a binary influence (i.e., all or nothing), but instead operates in a continuum from largely to minimally influential such that it could be utilized to help improve prediction of inland effects for all landfalling TCs.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; TROPICAL cyclones; VERTICAL wind shear; HUMIDITY; PRECIPITABLE water; SOIL moisture; SOLAR cycle; SOLAR radiation
- Publication
Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2020, Vol 21, Issue 6, p1171
- ISSN
1525-755X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/JHM-D-19-0214.1