Dynamics of sting‐jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution
Abstract Intense Shapiro–Keyser cyclones are often accompanied by a sting jet (SJ), an air stream that descends from the cloud head into the frontal‐fracture region and can cause extreme surface gusts. Previous case‐studies have concentrated on the North Atlantic and the British Isles. Here we prese...
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crwiley:10.1002/qj.3666 2024-06-02T08:11:43+00:00 Dynamics of sting‐jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution Eisenstein, Lea Pantillon, Florian Knippertz, Peter Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.3666 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.3666 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/qj.3666 https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/qj.3666 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society volume 146, issue 726, page 186-210 ISSN 0035-9009 1477-870X journal-article 2019 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3666 2024-05-03T10:49:36Z Abstract Intense Shapiro–Keyser cyclones are often accompanied by a sting jet (SJ), an air stream that descends from the cloud head into the frontal‐fracture region and can cause extreme surface gusts. Previous case‐studies have concentrated on the North Atlantic and the British Isles. Here we present the first‐ever detailed analysis of an SJ over continental Europe and investigate the influence of topography on its dynamical evolution based on observations and high‐resolution simulations using the ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model (ICON). Windstorm Egon intensified over the English Channel and then tracked from northern France to Poland on 12–13 January 2017, causing gusts of almost 150 km·h −1 and important damage. ICON reproduces the storm dynamics, although it delays the explosive deepening, shifts the track southward over Belgium and Germany and underestimates gusts over land. Storm characteristics show weak sensitivity to varying grid spacing between 1.6 and 6.5 km, while switching off the convection parametrization at 3.3 km grid spacing improves correlations with surface observations but deteriorates the mean error. Trajectories reveal typical SJ characteristics such as mid‐level descent, strong acceleration and conditional symmetric and other mesoscale instabilities, while evaporative cooling is stronger than in previous cases from the literature, preventing drying during descent. The SJ identification and the occurrence of mesoscale instabilities depend considerably on model resolution, convective parametrization, output frequency and employed thresholds for trajectory selection. Sensitivity experiments with modified surface characteristics show that the combined effects of warm‐air blocking by the Alps, higher roughness over land and reduced surface fluxes cause Egon to fill more quickly and to move on a faster, more northern track across Germany. While the SJ response is complex, showing some compensating effects, surface gusts strongly increase when roughness is reduced. These results suggest that ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Wiley Online Library Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 146 726 186 210 |
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Abstract Intense Shapiro–Keyser cyclones are often accompanied by a sting jet (SJ), an air stream that descends from the cloud head into the frontal‐fracture region and can cause extreme surface gusts. Previous case‐studies have concentrated on the North Atlantic and the British Isles. Here we present the first‐ever detailed analysis of an SJ over continental Europe and investigate the influence of topography on its dynamical evolution based on observations and high‐resolution simulations using the ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model (ICON). Windstorm Egon intensified over the English Channel and then tracked from northern France to Poland on 12–13 January 2017, causing gusts of almost 150 km·h −1 and important damage. ICON reproduces the storm dynamics, although it delays the explosive deepening, shifts the track southward over Belgium and Germany and underestimates gusts over land. Storm characteristics show weak sensitivity to varying grid spacing between 1.6 and 6.5 km, while switching off the convection parametrization at 3.3 km grid spacing improves correlations with surface observations but deteriorates the mean error. Trajectories reveal typical SJ characteristics such as mid‐level descent, strong acceleration and conditional symmetric and other mesoscale instabilities, while evaporative cooling is stronger than in previous cases from the literature, preventing drying during descent. The SJ identification and the occurrence of mesoscale instabilities depend considerably on model resolution, convective parametrization, output frequency and employed thresholds for trajectory selection. Sensitivity experiments with modified surface characteristics show that the combined effects of warm‐air blocking by the Alps, higher roughness over land and reduced surface fluxes cause Egon to fill more quickly and to move on a faster, more northern track across Germany. While the SJ response is complex, showing some compensating effects, surface gusts strongly increase when roughness is reduced. These results suggest that ... |
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Dynamics of sting‐jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution |
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Dynamics of sting‐jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution |
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Dynamics of sting‐jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution |
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