Raindrop Size Distribution in a Midlatitude Continental Squall Line Measured by Thies Optical Disdrometers over East China

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology - Tập 55 Số 3 - Trang 621-634 - 2016
Baojun Chen1, Jun Wang2, Dianli Gong2
1Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/MOE, and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
2Weather Modification Office of Shandong Province, Jinan, China

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AbstractDisdrometer data measured by ground-based optical disdrometers during a midlatitude continental squall line event on 18 August 2012 in Shandong Province, eastern China, are analyzed to study characteristics of raindrop size distribution (DSD). Four disdrometers simultaneously performed continuous measurements during the passage of the convective line. The convective line was partitioned into three regions: the convective center, leading edge, and trailing edge. Results show distinct differences in DSDs and integral rainfall parameters between the convective-center and the edge regions. The convective center has higher drop concentrations, larger mean diameters, and wider size distributions when compared with the edge regions. The leading and trailing edges have similar drop concentrations, but the latter has larger mean diameters and wider size distributions. The shape of DSD for the convective center is convex down, whereas it is convex upward in tropical continental squall lines, as reported in the literature. There is also spatial variability of the DSD and its integral rainfall parameters in the along-convective-line direction.

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Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Tập 55 Số 3

621-634

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