- 著者
- Akira T. Noda Hiroshi Niino
- 出版者
- Meteorological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- SOLA (ISSN:13496476)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.1, pp.5-8, 2005 (Released:2005-01-25)
- 参考文献数
- 17
- 被引用文献数
- 9 13
A major tornado spawned by a supercell is reproduced by a fine-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulation, and its genesis mechanism and structure are clarified. The tornado, which is associated with a maximum vertical vorticity of 0.85 s-1 and a pressure drop of 27 hPa, originates from one of the small-scale vortices on the gust front that forms between a warm moist environmental air and a rain-cooled air produced by the storm. Only the small-scale vortex that develops into a major tornado is located right under the low-level updraft associated with the low-level mesocyclone; the others that fail to develop are not. Several interesting previously-unexamined characteristics of the threedimensional structure of the simulated tornado vortex are also reported.