摘要
TyphoonDurian(2001),whichformedovertheSouthChinaSea(SCS),wassimulatedbyusingtheWeatherResearchandForecasting(WRF)model.ThegenesisoftyphoonDurianwhichformedinthemonsoontroughwasreproducedbynumericalsimulations.Thesimulatedresultsagreereasonablywellwithobservations.Twonumericalexperimentsinwhichtheseasurfacetemperature(SST)waseitherdecreasedorincreasedwereperformedtoinvestigatetheimpactoftheSSTonthegenesisofthety-phoon.WhentheSSTwasdecreasedby5℃uniformlyforallgridsinthemodel,thewindscalculatedbecamedivergentinthelowertroposphereandconvergentintheuppertroposphere,creatingconditionsinwhichtheamountoftotallatentheatrelease(TLHR)waslowandthetropicalcyclone(TC)couldnotbeformed.Thissimulationshowstheimportanceoftheconvergenceinthelowertropo-sphereandthedivergenceintheuppertroposphereforthegenesisoftheinitialvortex.WhentheSSTwasincreasedby1℃uni-formlyforallgrids,astrongertyphoonwasgeneratedintheresultswithanincreaseofabout10ms-1inthemaximumsurfacewindspeed.Onlyminordifferencesinintensitywerenotedduringthefirst54hinthesimulationwiththewarmerSST,butapparentdif-ferencesinintensityoccurredafter54hwhenthevortexbegantostrengthentotyphoonstrength.ThisexperimentshowsthatwarmerSSTwillspeedthestrengtheningfromtropicalstormstrengthtotyphoonstrengthandincreasethemaximumintensityreached,whileonlyminorimpactcanbeseenduringtheearlierstageofgenesisbeforetheTCreachesthetropicalstormstrength.Theresultssug-gestthattheamountofTLHRmaybethedominantfactorindeterminingtheformationandtheintensificationoftheTC.
出版日期
2010年02月12日(中国期刊网平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)