Foehn Event Triggered by an Atmospheric River Underlies Record‐Setting Temperature Along Continental Antarctica

Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres - Tập 123 Số 8 - Trang 3871-3892 - 2018
Deniz Bozkurt1, Roberto Rondanelli1,2, Julio C. Maŕın3,4, René Garreaud1,2
1Center for Climate and Resilience Research, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
2Department of Geophysics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
3Department of Meteorology, University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile
4Interdisciplinary Center for Atmospheric and Astro-statistical Studies, University of Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile

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AbstractA record‐setting temperature of 17.5°C occurred on 24 March 2015 at the Esperanza station located near the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). We studied the event using surface station data, satellite imagery, reanalysis data, and numerical simulations. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Antarctic Ice Shelf Image Archive provides clear evidence for disintegration and advection of sea ice, as well as the formation of melt ponds on the ice sheet surface at the base of the AP mountain range. A deep low‐pressure center over the Amundsen‐Bellingshausen Sea and a blocking ridge over the southeast Pacific provided favorable conditions for the development of an atmospheric river with a northwest‐southeast orientation, directing warm and moist air toward the AP, and triggering a widespread foehn episode. A control simulation using a regional climate model shows the existence of local topographically induced warming along the northern tip of the AP (∼60% of the full temperature signal) and the central part of the eastern AP (>90% of the full temperature signal) with respect to a simulation without topography. These modeling results suggest that more than half of the warming experienced at Esperanza can be attributed to the foehn effect (a local process), rather than to the large‐scale advection of warm air from the midlatitudes. Nevertheless, the local foehn effect also has a large‐scale advection component, since the atmospheric river provides water vapor for orographic precipitation enhancement and latent heat release, which makes it difficult to completely disentangle the role of local versus large‐scale processes in explaining the extreme event.

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Journal of Geophysical Research D: Atmospheres

Tập 123 Số 8

3871-3892

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