Kinematic analyses over eastern Asia during a subperiod of the air mass transformation experiment 1975

Yi-Tsuei Pa1 Sheu; Phillip J. Smith

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v29i5.11372

Kinematic analyses over eastern Asia during a subperiod of the air mass transformation experiment 1975

Tellus

Volume 29 (1977): Issue 5

By: Yi-Tsuei Pa1 Sheu and Phillip J. Smith

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|Jan 1977

Abstract

This study examines the large-scale vorticity and vertical motion fields over eastern Asia during a subperiod (13–16 February) of the Air Mass Transformation Experiment (AMTEX) 1975. This represents a period of cyclogenesis and subsequent formation of mesoscale cellular convection (MCC) over the AMTEX region.

Vertical motion and vorticity fields reflect the developing cyclone and a short synoptic-scale upper wave which propagated across the computational region. Results for the AMTEX region reveal that during MCC occurrences large-scale downward motion and a change from negative to positive vertical gradient of vorticity in the lower troposphere occur.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v29i5.11372 | Journal eISSN: 3035-9554

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Language: English

Page range: 393 - 401

Submitted on: Sep 20, 1976

Accepted on: Dec 13, 1976

Published on: Jan 1, 1977

Published by: Stockholm University Press

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© 1977 Yi-Tsuei Pa1 Sheu, Phillip J. Smith, published by Stockholm University Press
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Volume 29 (1977): Issue 5