Experimental Study for Influence of Summertime Heat Sources and Basic States on Rossby Wave Propagation

여름철 열원과 기본장이 로스비 파동전파에 미치는 영향에 대한 실험 연구

  • Kim, Seong-Yeol (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University) ;
  • Ha, Kyung-Ja (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yun, Kyung-Sook (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University)
  • 김성열 (부산대학교 지구환경시스템학부) ;
  • 하경자 (부산대학교 지구환경시스템학부) ;
  • 윤경숙 (부산대학교 지구환경시스템학부)
  • Received : 2010.09.13
  • Accepted : 2010.12.09
  • Published : 2010.12.30

Abstract

We investigated the impacts of the diabatic heating location, vertical profile and basic state on the Rossby wave propagation. To examine the dynamical process of individual responses on the regional heat source, a dry version of the linear baroclinic model was used with climatological summertime (JJA) mean basic state and vertical structure of the diabatic heating for 1979-2008. Two sets of diabatic heating were constructed of those positioned in the mid-latitudes (Tibetan Plateau, eastern Mediterranean Sea, and the west-central Asia) and the tropics (the southern India, Bay of Bengal, and western Pacific). It was found that using the principal component analysis, atmospheric response to diabatic heating reaches to the steady state in 19th days in time. The prescribed mid-latitude forcing forms equivalent barotropic Rossby wave propagation along the westerly Asia jets, whereas the tropical forcing generates the Rossby wave train extending from the tropics to mid-latitudes. In relation to the maximum vertical profile, the mid-level forcing reveals a stronger response than the lower-level forcing, which may be caused by more effective Rossby wave response by the upper-level divergent flow. Under the different sub-seasonal mean state, both of the tropical and mid-latitude forcing induce the different sub-seasonal response intensity, due to the different basic-state wind.

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