Joint ATMO & IPRC Seminar

October 30, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Marine Sciences Building, MSB 100

Diagnosing the Moist Static Energy (MSE) Budget in the Northward Propagating Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation (BSISO)

Mr. Tianyi Wang, Ph.D.
International Pacific Research Center, S.O.E.S.T.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Seminar Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Refreshments: 3:00pm at MSB courtyard
Cookies, Coffee & Tea Provided
Seminar Time: 3:30pm
Location: Marine Sciences Building, MSB 100

Abstract:
The column-integrated moist static energy (MSE) budget associated with the northward-propagating boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO) is diagnosed for the Bay of Bangel (BoB) and western North Pacific (WNP) regions. Results show that an active BSISO convection is generally in phase with a positive column-integrated MSE perturbation, while the tendency of the latter corresponds to a warm SST anomaly and both locate to the north of the active convection by a 90° phase. The zonal (meridional) advection process dominates the increasing of the column-integrated MSE over the BoB (WNP) area. The surface latent heat flux also contributes positively over the WNP area but negatively over the BoB area. In the existence of the northwest/southeast-tilted structure of the BSISO rainband, the distinct background wind flows and specific land-sea distributions are mainly responsible for such differences.


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SOEST Atmospheric Sciences, Mānoa Campus

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