Multi-Platform Analyses of MJO Convection on Sub-Daily Timescales

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Multi-Platform Analyses of MJO Convection on Sub-Daily Timescales Jeremiah Brown and Ralph F. Milliff NWRA, Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) Division Boulder, CO USA IOVWST Barcelona, May 2010

Multi-Platform Analyses of MJO Convection on Sub-Daily Timescales Jeremiah Brown and Ralph F. Milliff NWRA, Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) Division Boulder, CO USA Tropics as a source region for important weather and climate events (e.g. moisture supply to mid-latitudes, easterly waves, monsoons, TC’s , MJO, ENSO) Shorter timescales, unique phenomena associated with tropical deep convection (organization; e.g. mesoscale convective systems or MCS, tropical waves) Human impacts (e.g. agriculture, fisheries, fresh water supply, drought, flood, fire,…) IOVWST Barcelona, May 2010

Multi-Platform Analyses of MJO Convection on Sub-Daily Timescales Jeremiah Brown and Ralph F. Milliff NWRA, Colorado Research Associates (CoRA) Division Boulder, CO USA Tropics as a source region for important weather and climate events (e.g. moisture supply to mid-latitudes, easterly waves, monsoons, TC’s , MJO, ENSO) Shorter timescales, unique phenomena associated with tropical deep convection (organization; e.g. mesoscale convective systems or MCS, tropical waves) Human impacts (e.g. agriculture, fisheries, fresh water supply, drought, flood, fire,…) Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) as a marker for observation and model capabilities for tropical processes (slow eastward propagation, large scale, unknown initiation and propagation mechanisms) What are the limits imposed by temporal sampling inherent in multiple polar-orbiting satellite systems? IOVWST Barcelona, May 2010

Datasets from Multi-Sensor Satellite Observations Convective Cloud Signatures Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR) Estimates from Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) on Terra (1030) and Aqua (1330) daily average, 2.5 degree Synoptic scale synthesis OLR product (SYN) from NASA Langley (LaRC) Combines GOES and CERES observations 3-hourly, 1 degree Zonal Wind and Surface Convergence Blended QuikSCAT and NCEP Reanalysis (BLN) surface vector winds (SVW) from Milliff et al., (2004); Chin et al., (1998) (old Level 3 product) 6-hourly (really 12), 0.5 degree ASCAT L2 NRT retrievals from OSI SAF via JPL PODAAC 12-hourly, 12.5km (really 25) Wielicki, B. A., B. R. Barkstrom, E. F. Harrison, R. B. Lee III, G. L. Smith, and J. E. Cooper, "Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): An Earth Observing System Experiment," Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 853-868, 1996.

MJO Signal in OLR Anomaly Time vs. Longitude Diagram Indian Ocean Western Pacific Ocean November 2002

MJO in Plan View: 3-hourly OLR anomaly from SYN (top) and running 24hr mean (bottom) November 2002 MCS organization and variability embedded within MJO cloud shield smaller, faster, westward difference signals at leading edges, throughout MJO supercluster active synoptic background affects and is affected by MJO

Recent Conceptual Models of the MJO: Upscale transfers Convective cloud source

Recent Conceptual Models of the MJO: Upscale transfers Momentum source

MJO in Plan View: 12-hourly zonal wind (top) and divergence (bottom) from QuikSCAT L3 November 2002 Anomalous easterlies (red) propagate slowly eastward Divergence extrema associated with leading edge of MJO propagation zonal wind and divergence associated with background state as well

Divergence extrema associated with MCS, embedded within MJO MJO in Plan View: 3-hourly OLR (SYN; top) and 12-hourly DIV (QuikSCAT L3; bottom) November 2002 Divergence extrema associated with MCS, embedded within MJO

MJO Signal in OLR Anomaly Time vs. Longitude Diagram Indian Ocean Western Pacific Ocean October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 January 2010

MJO in Plan View: 2x-daily zonal wind from ASCAT (L2) Need L3 products, sufficiently accurate to yield reliable divergence, vorticity fields (CCMP?)

Tropical events have important weather and climate-scale implications multiple, nested temporal and spatial scales deep convective plume to MJO, monsoon, ENSO, etc. MCS building blocks resolvable, organization processes not well understood challenge to space-borne observing systems Require simultaneous, O(hourly), high-resolution observations of critical quantities multi-scale convective cloud systems and momentum (as shown) moisture (humidity, precip), temperature coarse resolution vertical structure (i.e. 2-layer) Bayesian Hierarchical Model (BHM) approach to MJO propagation mechanism in the tropical Indo-Pacific data stage inputs from multi-platform satellite observations new process models (upscale transfers) Summary:

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TROPSAT Concept: seeking community interest/input active/passive microwave instrument low-inclination orbit wide swath, MCS resolution SVW (convergence, curl) SST, T(z) Total column H2O, rain cloud Image courtesy S. Nesbitt via B. Mapes 2004