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@ARTICLE{Chemel:1757,
author = {Chemel, C. and Russo, M.R. and Pyle, J. and Sokhi, R.S. and
Schiller, C.},
title = {{Q}uantifiying the {I}mprint of a {S}evere {H}ector
{T}hunderstorm during {ACTIVE}/{SCOUT}-{O}3 onto the {W}ater
{C}ontent in the {U}pper {T}roposphere/{L}ower
{S}tratosphere},
journal = {Monthly Weather Review},
volume = {137},
issn = {0027-0644},
address = {Washington, DC [u.a.]},
publisher = {AMS},
reportid = {PreJuSER-1757},
pages = {2493 - 2514},
year = {2009},
note = {We appreciate the tremendous efforts of the ACTIVE/SCOUT-O3
PIs as well as all those who made the IOPs so successful.
MRR and JAP acknowledge the U. K. Natural Environment
Research Council (NERC) and the U. K. National Center for
Atmospheric Science (NCAS) for their funding as part of
ACTIVE. MRR, JAP, and CS thank the European Commission for
their funding as part of SCOUT-O3. The Australian Bureau of
Meteorology is acknowledged for having made the BMRC/NCAR
C-POL radar data available for this work. CC thanks E. D.
Grell for providing help with the implementation of the
add-on LES module for ARW. The images of Fig. 3 were derived
from MTSAT-1R satellite imagery available from the
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program archive.
Time-consuming computations were performed with the HECToR
and HPCx U. K. national supercomputing facilities, which
were accessed through NCAS. We thank the Met Office and the
NCAS Computational Modelling Services for helping with
UM-related issues.},
abstract = {The development of a severe Hector thunderstorm that formed
over the Tiwi Islands, north of Australia, during the
Aerosol and Chemical Transport in Tropical
Convection/Stratospheric-Climate Links with Emphasis on the
Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (ACTIVE/SCOUT-O3)
field campaign in late 2005, is simulated by the Advanced
Research Weather Research and Forecasting (ARW) model and
the Met Office Unified Model (UM). The general aim of this
paper is to investigate the role of isolated deep convection
over the tropics in regulating the water content in the
upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS). Using a
horizontal resolution as fine as 1 km, the numerical
simulations reproduce the timing, structure, and strength of
Hector fairly well when compared with field campaign
observations. The sensitivity of results from ARW to
horizontal resolution is investigated by running the model
in a large-eddy simulation mode with a horizontal resolution
of 250 m. While refining the horizontal resolution to 250 m
leads to a better representation of convection with respect
to rainfall, the characteristics of the Hector thunderstorm
are basically similar in space and time to those obtained in
the 1-km-horizontal-resolution simulations. Several
overshooting updrafts penetrating the tropopause are
produced in the simulations during the mature stage of
Hector. The penetration of rising towering cumulus clouds
into the LS maintains the entrainment of air at the
interface between the UT and the LS. Vertical exchanges
resulting from this entrainment process have a significant
impact on the redistribution of atmospheric constituents
within the UT/LS region at the scale of the islands. In
particular, a large amount of water is injected in the LS.
The fate of the ice particles as Hector develops drives the
water vapor mixing ratio to saturation by sublimation of the
injected ice particles, moistening the air in the LS. The
moistening was found to be fairly significant above 380 K
and averaged about 0.06 ppmv in the range 380-420 K for ARW.
As for UM, the moistening was found to be much larger (about
2.24 ppmv in the range of 380-420 K) than for ARW. This
result confirms that convective transport can play an
important role in regulating the water vapor mixing ratio in
the LS.},
keywords = {J (WoSType)},
cin = {ICG-1},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)VDB790},
pnm = {Atmosphäre und Klima},
pid = {G:(DE-Juel1)FUEK406},
shelfmark = {Meteorology $\&$ Atmospheric Sciences},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000269348600006},
doi = {10.1175/2008MWR2666.1},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1757},
}