Coastal front formation at the Llobregat delta. Preliminary study David Pino 1,2 & Jordi Mazón 1 1 Applied Physics Department (UPC) 2 Institut d’Estudis.

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Coastal front formation at the Llobregat delta. Preliminary study David Pino 1,2 & Jordi Mazón 1 1 Applied Physics Department (UPC) 2 Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC/CSIC) Red MM5, Aveiro, Abril 2007

1.Rain ranges anomaly. Climatology 2.Coastal front hypothesis September 2000 episode 4.MM5 simulation setup 5.Results 6.Conclusions Overline Work done to obtain the Diploma Thesis of a 3 year technical studies (academic use of the MM5 model)

C G V F Rain ranges anomaly 70 km West Mediterranean coast Llobregat delta Orography influence Mediterranean sea

G F C V F V Annual precipitation ( ) G G Larger precipitation at the delta station (G) Similar precipitation in the other stations Driving mechanism?

C F V V Winter ( ) G G Larger precipitation at the delta station (G) Similar precipitation in the other stations Driving mechanism?

V V C F C V Spring ( ) G G Associated to frontal systems related to low pressure centers located north of the area. Large precipitation at the northern station (V)

V C V F F Summer ( ) G G G Similar precipitation in all the stations Mainly produced by thunderstorms

V F C V C Fall ( ) G G G Large precipitation at the delta station (G) Similar precipitation in the other stations Produced only by easterly warm air intrusion?

Large spatial variability. Concentrated near the delta. During late summer/fall. Nighttime precipitation. Summary C G V F

AnnualSpringSummerFallWinter Cubelles Foix (pantà) Gavà Vilafranca

Nocturnal land breeze: Sea surface temperature around 26 ºC Long nights, important land cooling (land breeze) Drainage winds along the Llobregat delta and small torrents of the surrounding hills. Enlarging of the offshore cool flux at the cost. The front is limited south and north by two surrounding small mountains. Coastal fronts hypothesis

September episode Low pressure at center Europe Light surface winds 850 hPa light westerly winds

Local observations: Gava-Viladecans E N W 2 3 Change in the wind direction during the night. Winds coming mainly from the north-east

Radar images (from 0 to 6UTC every 10 min)

DomainResolution (km)Number of points 12740x x x x70 Viladecans (B) Simulation characteristics Moisture scheme: Simple ice Convection scheme: Kuo, Grell, none, none. PBL: MRF Atmospheric radiation: cloud 27 vertical levels

6. Results (Domain 3) Air convergence at the Llobregat delta 0-6UTC (03/09)

Wind pattern and accumulated precipitation 0-6UTC (03/09)

6. Results (Domain 4) Air convergence at the Llobregat delta 0-6UTC (03/09)

Wind pattern and accumulated precipitation 0-6UTC (03/09)

Vertical cross sections

Wind field at 06 UTC on 3rd September. V component

MM5 vs observations (Viladecans weather station) Temperature and winds are well reproduced. Rainfall rates are clearly underestimated.

Conclusions Climatology shows that precipitation rates have a great spatial variation. Most of precipitation episodes of the delta area occur during fall and nighttime. This fact can be associated to by the development of a coastal front that is restricted to the delta area. Fundamental mechanisms are related to land breeze, drainage winds and high sea surface temperature. An episode produced by this type of front has been studied using observations and MM5 simulations. MM5 simulation reproduce precipitation rates but not the spatial distribution. The MM5 simulation is able to reproduce the drainage winds along the valley and the coastal front. Additional episodes will be studied.