- 著者
- Yoshiharu IWASA Takashi ARAKAWA Akimasa SUMI
- 出版者
- Meteorological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- 気象集誌. 第2輯 (ISSN:00261165)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.90, no.1, pp.11-33, 2012-02-29 (Released:2012-02-29)
- 参考文献数
- 31
- 被引用文献数
- 1 1
Time integration using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS), a non-hydrostatic cloud-resolving model, was performed for 12 days over a low-latitude band (45°S–45°N) circling an aqua planet with 5-km horizontal grid-point intervals. Tropical and subtropical regions with active precipitation and clear sky, respectively, were clearly divided at 10° latitudes. The numerical experiments derived obvious tropospheric mid-level detrainment (TMD) flows near the 0°C level (z ∼ 5 km) out of the tropics into the subtropics. The TMD flows became largest near the border (10° latitude). In this paper, the time-longitudinal mean field was spotlighted and the atmospheric structure accompanying the TMD flow was investigated. When averaged over time and longitude, the subtropical mid-level troposphere, into which the TMD flows move, is approximately in a state of local thermodynamic equilibrium sustained mainly by the balance between the net radiative cooling and adiabatic heating due to mean subsidence flow. Considering the heat balance, a thermodynamic diagnosis of the mean subsidence flow field suggests the following mechanisms for the mean TMD flow: (1) The mean atmosphere near the melting level has stronger radiative cooling and a larger temperature lapse rate than the atmosphere above it. (2) Free subsidence in the mean subtropical mid-level troposphere, which is consistent with the vertical variation of thermal structure and suffers from no direct dynamic forcings, such as buoyancy, involves a vertically mass-divergent layer just above the melting level. (3) The steady poleward mean TMD flow out of the convective tropic atmosphere exists so as to compensate for the vertical mass divergence in the subtropical atmosphere. Because net meridional transports of sensible heat and water vapor in the middle troposphere are influenced by the mean TMD flow, the existence and the maintaining mechanisms of the mean TMD flow could be important elements of the climate system.
- 著者
- Takashi ARAKAWA Shogo HAYASHI Yusuke KINUGASA Gen MURAKAMI Mineko FUJIMIYA
- 出版者
- Editorial Board of Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica
- 雑誌
- Okajimas Folia Anatomica Japonica (ISSN:0030154X)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.87, no.2, pp.49-58, 2010 (Released:2012-02-10)
- 参考文献数
- 32
- 被引用文献数
- 14 29
To investigate intergender differences in muscle cleavage and joining during development of the external anal sphincter (EAS), we examined semiserial sections of 16 fetuses between 15 and 30 weeks of gestation (6 males and 10 females). The subcutaneous part of the EAS (EASsc) developed along the male perineal raphe and extended posteriorly. Thus, the male EAS was characterized by anterior protrusion of the subcutaneous muscle, in contrast to the almost circular female EAS. In both genders, the bulbospongiosus anlage (or the levator ani anlage) issued muscle fibers to form the superficial (or deep) part of the EAS. The EASsc communicated with the superficial part in males, whereas the female bulbospongiosus tended to communicate with the levator ani rather than the EAS. In both genders, the longitudinal muscle bundle(s) of the anorectum contributed to perineal body formation. However, the male perineal body also had a thick fascia between the rhabdosphincter and the levator. The bulbospongiosus seems to play a critical role in forming the EAS. A strict intergender difference in subcutaneous muscle development is evident along the perineal raphe, as the raphe is not evident in females. These results help to explain variations in the EAS, including anal malformations.