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1 Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik INITIATION OF AIRMASS DEEP MOIST CONVECTION Thomas Krennert, t.krennert@zamg.ac.at,t.krennert@zamg.ac.at Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

2  University Vienna, Institute of Meteorology  EU project HERA / MAP  Satellite department @ ZAMG – SATMANU  Forecaster since 2004  Late activities:  Weather type classification (COST733, KLI_EN)  Trusted Spotter Network Austria (ZAMG, Skywarn, ESSL / ESWD, meteopics.eu) INTRO INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT

3 OUTLINE  Forecasting: case study & task  Limitations of forecaster regarding initiation of airmass / pulse DMC  Integrating upper level dynamics / moisture gradients / MSG WV  Concept of symmetric instabilities  Derivation of a geostrophic wind-vector-gradient matrix  RGB testing CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

4 FORECAST CASE STUDY: SYNOPTIC BACKGROUND, 28 July 2005 MSLP (VIOLET), H500 (CYAN) CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

5 FORECAST CASE STUDY: SYNOPTIC BACKGROUND THETAe surface (red), 850 hPa (yellow) CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

6 FORECAST CASE STUDY: MSG HRVIS LOOP CONVECTIVE INITIATION CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT

7 FORECAST CASE STUDY: TASK  @ 1130 UTC: where exactly will DMC occur?  Transition from shallow convection towards DMC?  Ingredients based methodology: Instability – moisture – lift  Clear and proven concept  Local variability of moisture supply, entrainment, CIN  Sufficient quantities of ingredients to resolve CIN / inversions?  About 20 - 30% seasonal convective activity of this type / Alpine region CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

8 FORECAST CASE STUDY: OPERATIONALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCTS  MSG / Nowcasting  3.9μ / 6.2μ / 7.3μ - RGB  Severe Storm RGB  Air Mass RGB  Clout Top Height  Microphysics / day  Global / Regional Instability Index  Multisensor Precipitation + NWCSAF precipitation products  NWCSAF products i.e. RTD  RADAR (no signal so far), TEMP  NWP – models: DMO + post processing  Low – res, local, high – res non hydrostatic, hybrids: artefacts ?  High resolusion analysis and nowcasting: CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

9 FORECAST CASE STUDY: NOWCASTING, INCA ANALYSIS CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

10 NOWCASTING, ALADIN – SURFACE MOCON FORECAST 1200 UTC CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

11 FORECAST CASE STUDY: RASO VIENNA 1200 UTC CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

12 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT FORECAST CASE STUDY: MSG HRVIS LOOP - CONTINUED INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

13 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT FORECAST CASE STUDY: MSG WV 6.2µ LOOP INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

14 Theta-e gradient slightly indicated, dry intrusion, conditional instability increasing, CAPE increasing? 300 hPa UPPER LEVEL PROPERTIES: EQUIVALENT POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE 500 hPa CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

15 JET INDICATOR, SHEAR VORTICITY – ZERO LINE SANTURETTE, P., GEORGIEV, C. G., 2005; MARTIN, et al., 1999 300 hPa 500 hPa Zero line shear indicates vertical wind speed gradient (min+max) CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

16 Isopleths 1,5 PVU at respective pressure level – „dry intrusion“ PVA 300 hPa UPPER LEVEL PROPERTIES: POTENTIAL VORTICITY / PVA 300 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

17  ECMWF 0.5 parameter: Equivalent potential Vorticity (layer 850 – 500 hPa)  Mostly negative (dashed lines)  Leading to consideration of the concept of  Symmetric instabilities INDICATIONS FOR SYMMETRIC INSTABILITY CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

18 Schultz and Schumacher (1999) COMPARISON OF INSTABILITIES CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

19 CONCEPT SKETCH COMET: Slantwise convection CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

20  Schultz and Schumacher (1999):  convection can possess characteristics of slantwise convection, gravitational convection, or both  Coexistence of: CSI/PSI, CI/PI, adequate moisture / lift  Release of convective–symmetric instability results in a mixture of moist slantwise convection and moist gravitational - the latter prevails  CI / PI is a special case of CSI / PSI in which θes / θ surfaces not only tilt more steeply than Mg surfaces, but are overturned  Hoskins (1974), Mc Cann (1995):  Mg – θ relationship for dry symmetric instability is equivalent to geostrophic potential vorticity PVg  Limitations:  identifying regions with PVg / MPVg might also indicate PI / CI and gravitational convection REVIEW: CHARACTERISTICS CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

21 Xu (1986a): “upscale development,”: Initial development of small-scale moist gravitational convection release of symmetric instability -> mesoscale banded convective clouds most likely occurrence : outside of frontal regions, absence of synoptic-scale air mass boundaries. Jascourt et al. (1988): scattered cumulus cloud bands simultaneously grew into lines of thunderstorms along the 700–500-mb shear, layer with weak moist symmetric stability conditionally unstable to gravitational convection (CAPE > 1000 J kg−1) nature and organization of convection can be modulated by the symmetric stability REVIEW: COEXISTENCE OF SI & GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITIES CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

22  Distinct vertical shear / little directional shear  Weak gravitational stability  MPVg becoming smaller or negative by deformation at the boundary zone  Strong thermal gradient induced by the dry and cold intrusion along with the WV dark zone  Saturated buoyant air parcel reaches a zone of distinct negative MPVg  Release of SI -> slantwise convection might follow (cms -1 ), sufficient? INDICATIONS FOR SI @ UPPER LEVEL WV BOUNDARIES - SUMMARY CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

23  The calculation of Mg – θ relationship (Dixon, 2000):  Cartesian coordinates necessary  not easily used in operational forecasting  The calculation of SCAPE  Also no frequent use in operational forecasting  The calculation of MPVg <0 / increase or decrease of its gradient  “Horizontal gradients of conservative field quantities (such as: P, Pe, Θe) are strengthened by the geostrophic wind field when deformation terms are dominant” (Bluestein 1993, Houze 1993, Emanuel 1994) -> Derivation of a geostrophic wind-vector-gradient matrix (“NUE”) INDICATORS FOR SYMMETRIC INSTABILITIES (LITERATURE) CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

24 stretching deformation shearing deformationrelative vorticity divergence NUE MATRIX http://www.nwcsaf.org/HD/files/vsadoc/vsa_report_tk.pdf CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

25  Only the negative values of the NUE – parameter indicate strengthening of the MPV – gradient.  In order to avoid imaginary results the parameter is calculated  In combination with the WV gradients a zone for favourable DMC onset can be highlighted (easily applied operationally) PROPERTIES OF NUE CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

26 PROPERTIES OF NUE: CASE STUDY CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

27 ALADIN MPVg (850-500hPa), NUE 850 / 700 / 500 hPa, 0600UTC 500 hPa700 hPa 850 hPa CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

28 ALADIN MPVg (850-500hPa), NUE 850 / 700 / 500 hPa, 1200UTC 500 hPa700 hPa 850 hPa CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

29 1500 UTC CASE STUDY: FURTHER DEVELOPMENT 1800 UTC CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

30 RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

31 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

32 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

33 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

34 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

35 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

36 CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT RGB: IR 8.7µ / WV 7.3µ / WV 6.2µ LOOP INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

37 References BLUESTEIN, H. B., 1993: Synoptic-Dynamic Meteorology in Midlatitudes. Volume II: Observations and Theory of Weather Systems. Oxford University Press, section 3.5.2. DIXON, R. S., 2000: Diagnostic studies of symmetric instability. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Reading, 128 pp. [Available from Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Earley Gate, P.O. Box 243, Reading RG6 6BB, United Kingdom.]. EMANUEL, K. A., 1994: Atmospheric Convection. Oxford University Press, chapter 12. HOSKINS, B. J., 1974: The role of potential vorticity in symmetric stability and instability. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc, 100, 480 ff. HOUZE, R. A. Jr., 1993: Cloud Dynamics. Academic Press, section 2.9.1. JASCOURT, S. D, S. S. Lindstrom, C. J. Seman, and D. D. Houghton, 1988: An observation of banded convective development in the presence of weak symmetric stability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 116, 175 ff. MARTIN, F., Elizaga, F., Riosalido, R., 1999: The Mushroom Configuration in Water Vapour Imagery and Operational Applications. Meteorol. Appl., 6, 143 ff. McCANN, D. W., 1995: Three-dimensional computations of equivalent potential vorticity. Wea. Forecasting, 10, 798 ff. SANTURETTE, P., GEORGIEV, C. G., 2005: Weather Analysis and Forecasting – Applying Satellite Water Vapour Imagery and Potential Vorticity Analysis, Elsevier Academic Press SCHULTZ, D. M., and P. N. Schumacher, 1999: The use and misuse of conditional symmetric instability. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2709 ff; Corrigendum, 128, 1573. XU, Q., 1986: Conditional symmetric instability and mesoscale rainbands. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.,112, 315 ff. THANK YOU! CONVECTION WEEK 2011 THOMAS KRENNERT INITIATION OF AIRMASS DMC

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