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Revisiting the impact of mid-latitude cold air outbreaks on the Maritime Continent weather
Abdillah M.R.a, Iwasaki T.b
a Research Group of Atmospheric Science, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi Bandung, West-Java, 40132, Indonesia
b Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624529070653{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner layout=”boxed”][vc_column_inner width=”3/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1624695412187{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Abstract” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.The East Asian winter exhibits frequent cold air outbreaks (CAOs), or cold surges, which often cause severe cold waves in the extratropics. CAOs are also of importance for forecasters in the Maritime Continent because the associated equatorward outflows can influence tropical weather. Various CAO definitions have been documented, but a definition based on a quantitative approach was only recently proposed. Studies of the CAO impact often linked a surge index in the subtropics instead of an index in the midlatitude where CAOs basically occur. Here, we investigate the impact by using a quantitative CAO index, which is defined by integrating cold air mass flux below a threshold potential temperature over midlatitude East Asia (45°N, 90°-135°E). From a climatological analysis, tropical convections are significantly observed two-to-four days following CAO event (i.e., the peak of CAO index), indicating CAO impacts. However, case studies show that the impacts vary among independent CAO cases due to influences of associated synoptic conditions, which affect the pathways of northerlies propagation and consequently hinder or amplify the impacts. Several impact patterns and their possible causes are discussed. A better understanding of East Asian CAO variability can improve the predictability of weather over the Maritime Continent.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Author keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]Climatological analysis,Cold air mass,Cold air outbreak,Maritime Continent,Quantitative approach,Synoptic conditions,Threshold potential,Tropical convection[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Indexed keywords” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]cold air outbreaks,maritime continent,weather[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”Funding details” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]We thank Dr. Y. Kanno for providing a tool for isentropic calculations and constructive comments. This study is partly supported by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) through Grant-in-Aid 15H02129 and the Program on Climate Change Adaptation Technology (SI-CAT).[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][vc_empty_space][megatron_heading title=”DOI” size=”size-sm” text_align=”text-left”][vc_column_text]https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/303/1/012062[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]Widget Plumx[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator css=”.vc_custom_1624528584150{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;}”][/vc_column][/vc_row]