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Duran, Patrick Timothy.

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The Upper-Level Turbulence, Static Stability and Tropopause Structure of Tropical Cyclones.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Upper-Level Turbulence, Static Stability and Tropopause Structure of Tropical Cyclones./
作者:	Duran, Patrick Timothy.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
面頁冊數:	135 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-01B.
標題:	Meteorology. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10837817
ISBN:	9780438156302

The Upper-Level Turbulence, Static Stability and Tropopause Structure of Tropical Cyclones.
Duran, Patrick Timothy.

The Upper-Level Turbulence, Static Stability and Tropopause Structure of Tropical Cyclones. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 135 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2018.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Upper-tropospheric thermodynamic processes can play an important role in tropical cyclone (TC) structure and evolution. Despite its importance, until recently few in-situ observations were available in the upper levels of TCs. Two recent field campaigns-the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) and the Office of Naval Research Tropical Cyclone Intensity (TCI) experiment-provided a wealth of high-altitude observations within TCs. These observations revealed that the upper-level static stability and tropopause structure of TCs can change dramatically with both space and time. The TCI dropsonde dataset collected during the rapid intensification (RI) of Hurricane Patricia (2015) revealed dramatic changes in tropopause height and temperature within the storm's inner core. These changes in tropopause structure were accompanied by a systematic decrease in tropopause-layer static stability over the eye. Outside of the eye, however, an initial decrease in static stability just above the tropopause was followed by an increase in static stability during the latter stages of RI. Idealized simulations were conducted to examine the processes that might have been responsible for the tropopause variability observed in Hurricane Patricia. A static stability budget analysis revealed that three processes-differential advection, vertical gradients of radiative heating, and vertical gradients of turbulent mixing-can produce the observed variability. These results support the theoretical assumption that turbulent mixing plays a fundamental role in setting the upper-level potential temperature stratification in TCs. The existence of turbulence in the upper troposphere of TCs is corroborated by the presence of low-Richardson number layers in a large number of rawinsonde observations. These layers were more common in hurricanes than in weaker TCs, as hurricanes were characterized by both smaller static stability and larger vertical wind shear in the upper troposphere. HS3 dropsondes deployed within and around TC Nadine (2012) observed two distinct upper-level stability maxima within the storm's cirrus canopy. Outside of the cirrus canopy, however, only one stability maximum was present in the upper levels. This maximum, just above the tropopause, was stronger over the cirrus canopy than outside of the cirrus canopy. Observations from a large rawinsonde dataset also show this structure, with a stronger temperature inversion located above the tropopause within regions of cold cirrus than outside of cold cirrus. It is hypothesized that vertical gradients of radiative heating, differential advection within the upper-tropospheric outflow layer, and vertical gradients of turbulence all could contribute to producing multiple stability maxima and the stronger temperature inversions in the lower stratosphere.

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