An Assessment Method of Squall Line Intensity Based on Cold Pool
- College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, 410073
To quantify the intensity of squall line in mid-latitudes, the author recently proposed a squall line intensity assessment method based on cold pool, which provides a measure of squall line intensity.
The disturbance potential temperature density is calculated by using the potential temperature, water vapor and all kinds of water condensate output from the numerical weather forecast model, and the boundary of the cold pool is judged according to the disturbance potential temperature density less than -2K. Based on the contour surface buoyancy, the high surface buoyancy is calculated according to the disturbance potential temperature density, and then the strength of the cold pool is calculated. In this method, the intensity of squall line is analyzed comprehensively by principal component analysis, combined with the weather phenomena accompanied by squall line occurrence, such as cold pool intensity, surface wind speed, ground pressure variation, surface temperature variation, simulated radar echo and so on. The above analysis is the local intensity on different grid points when the squall line occurs, and the overall squall line intensity is obtained by accumulating the local intensity in the squall line range.
The method is verified by the model output data of a squall line process occurred in northern Jiangsu on May 16, 2013. The results show that the distribution of the local squall line intensity is coupled with the surface wind field and heavy precipitation. The intensity evolution of the overall squall line reaches the peak in a short time and then decreases, which corresponds to the life history of the birth, development, maturity and dissipation of the squall line, and also reflects the characteristics of the short life history of the squall line developing rapidly and then dissipating. This method provides technical support for the forecast of squall line and the emergency plan issued by meteorological department.
Acknowledgements. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41975128 and 42075053).
Keywords: squall line, intensity, assessment method, disturbance potential temperature density
How to cite: Yang, R., Jiang, Y., Chen, C., He, H., Li, Y., and Huang, H.: An Assessment Method of Squall Line Intensity Based on Cold Pool, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-13532, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-13532, 2022.
