Climatology
Atefeh Hoseini Sadr; Gholam Hasan Mohammadi; Firooz Abdoul Alizade; Vaheid Khjaste Golamei
Volume 23, Issue 70 , March 2020, , Pages 79-100
Abstract
Heavy rainfall occurrence on April 14th, 2017 which followed by flood in Azarshahr and Ajabshir regions caused 48 deaths at East Azerbaijan province. Detecting synoptic mechanisms for such event was our main motivation for this study. In this regard, observational, upper atmospheric and SkewT data were ...
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Heavy rainfall occurrence on April 14th, 2017 which followed by flood in Azarshahr and Ajabshir regions caused 48 deaths at East Azerbaijan province. Detecting synoptic mechanisms for such event was our main motivation for this study. In this regard, observational, upper atmospheric and SkewT data were used. First, spatial distribution of precipitation in the study area was plotted. Then, Geo-potential height, vorticity and omega, specific humidity, moisture transition, jet stream for upper level and Huff-Muller chart were analyzed for different atmosphere layers. Finally, some atmospheric stability indexes were surveyed by using SkewT charts. Results showed that, highest rainfall was occurred as a rain corridor between southwest of West Azerbaijan province and middle regions of Urmia Lake to the central regions of East Azerbaijan Province with 30 to 57 mm range. Synoptic maps showed that in this day simultaneous expansion of the ascending area of Mediterranean trough in mid atmospheric layers and the core of polar Jet stream in upper levels provided favorable conditions for unstable atmosphere on the northwest of Iran, so that the amount of omega was less than -0.3 Pascal per second. Specific humidity maps indicate that, at the same time a significant moisture flux has flown from the Red Sea to the northwest of Iran. Therefore, the rapid conversion of atmospheric moisture into the rain in the ascending area of Mediterranean trough was the main cause of the heavy rainfall occurring on this day. This issue was proved by convergence moisture flux map and the Hoff-Müller graph. SkewT charts and instability indexes of Tabriz station also confirmed high amount of moisture and favourable ascending conditions in the atmosphere on April 14th
Climatology
Masoud Jalali; Ali SHahbai; Vahab Kamrian
Abstract
In this paper, we attempted to identify the synoptic patterns of Summer heavy rainfall in the southern coast of the Caspian Sea by using environment- to- circulation method. To attain this aim , by using statistics of daily Precipitation of 40 synoptic and climatology stations located in the region for ...
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In this paper, we attempted to identify the synoptic patterns of Summer heavy rainfall in the southern coast of the Caspian Sea by using environment- to- circulation method. To attain this aim , by using statistics of daily Precipitation of 40 synoptic and climatology stations located in the region for periods of 20 years of 1991 to 2010 and by percentile method , 29 days have rain more than 15 mm which have occurred in at least 30 percents of region stations , were determined as days with heavy rain. By using factorial analysis and cluster analysis methods , 3 synoptic patterns were determined as agent of creating rain in 29 days that the first pattern 48.3 percent , second pattern , 30 percent and the third pattern have allocated 21.7 percent of days of heavy rain in the studied region. In order to synoptic analysis of these patterns , maps of sea level pressure , 500 hectopascal level , omega (atmosphere vertical motions) , vorticity and moisture flows of level of 850 hectopascal related to two days before rain was used until rain day and finally it is determined that the main cause of occurring heavy summer rainfall in southern coast of the Caspian Sea is the penetration high-pressure system and after that formation of cool and moist northern flows as well as incidence of vast convection in the region. Each three patterns emphasize on occurrence of this condition and their difference is the place of deployment of high-pressure system and consequently the number of rainy days and severity of rain in these days.
