著者

YAMASHITA Yousuke TAKIGAWA Masayuki GOTO Daisuke YASHIRO Hisashi SATOH Masaki KANAYA Yugo TAKETANI Fumikazu MIYAKAWA Takuma

出版者

Meteorological Society of Japan

雑誌

気象集誌. 第2輯 (ISSN:00261165)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.2021-014, (Released:2020-12-02)

被引用文献数

3

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Atmospheric transport of aerosols such as black carbon (BC) affects the absorption/scattering of solar radiation, precipitation, and snow/ice cover, especially in areas of low human activity such as the Arctic. The resolution dependency of simulated BC transport from Siberia to the Arctic, related to the well-developed low-pressure systems in September, was evaluated using the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model–Spectral Radiation Transport Model for Aerosol Species (NICAM-SPRINTARS) with fine (∼ 56 km) and coarse (∼ 220 km) horizontal resolutions. These low-pressure systems have a large horizontal scale (∼ 2000 km) with the well-developed central pressure located on the transport pathway from East Asia to the Arctic through Siberia. The events analysis of the most developed low-pressure system in recent years indicated that the high-BC area in the Bering Sea observed by the Japanese Research Vessel Mirai in September 26-27th, 2016 moved to the Arctic with a filamental structure from the low's center to the behind of the cold front and ahead of the warm front in relation to its ascending motion on September 27-28th, 2016. The composite analysis for the developed low-pressure events in September from 2015-2018 indicated that the high-BC area was located eastwards of the low's center in relation to the ascending motion over the low's center and northward/eastward area. Since the area of the maximum ascending motion has a small horizontal scale, this was not well simulated by the 220-km experiment. The study identified the transport of BC to the Arctic in September is enhanced by the well-developed low-pressure systems. The results of transport model indicate that the material transport processes to the Arctic by the well-developed low-pressure systems are enhanced in the fine horizontal resolution (∼ 56 km) models relative to the coarse horizontal resolution (∼ 220 km) models.

著者

MIYAMOTO Yoshiaki SATO Yousuke NISHIZAWA Seiya YASHIRO Hisashi SEIKI Tatsuya NODA Akira T.

出版者

Meteorological Society of Japan

雑誌

気象集誌. 第2輯 (ISSN:00261165)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.2020-051, (Released:2020-07-09)

被引用文献数

1

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This study proposes a new energy balance model to determine the cloud fraction of low-level clouds. It is assumed that the horizontal cloud field consists of several individual cloud cells having a similar structure. Using a high–resolution simulation dataset with a wide numerical domain, we conducted an energy budget analysis. It is shown that the energy injected into the domain by surface flux is approximately balanced with the energy loss due to radiation and advection due to large–scale motion. The analysis of cloud cells within the simulated cloud field showed that the cloud field consists of a number of cloud cells with similar structures. We developed a simple model for the cloud fraction from the energy conservation equation. The cloud fraction diagnosed using the model developed in this study was able to quantitatively capture the simulated cloud fraction.

著者

MASUNAGA Ryusuke MIYAKAWA Tomoki KAWASAKI Takao YASHIRO Hisashi

出版者

公益社団法人 日本気象学会

雑誌

気象集誌. 第2輯 (ISSN:00261165)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.2023-010, (Released:2023-02-07)

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High-resolution atmosphere–ocean coupled models are the primary tool for sub-seasonal to seasonal-scale (S2S) prediction. Seasonal-scale sea surface temperature (SST) drift is, however, inevitable because of the imbalance between the model components, which may deteriorate the prediction skill. Here, we examine the performance of a simple flux adjustment method specifically designed to suppress seasonal-scale SST drift through case studies. The Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM)–Center for Climate System Research Ocean Component Model (COCO) coupled weather/climate model, named as NICOCO, was employed for wintertime 40-day integrations with a horizontal resolution of 14 km for the atmosphere and 0.25° for the ocean components. The coupled model with no flux adjustment suffers SST drift of typically -1.5–2°C in 40 days over the tropical, subtropical, and Antarctic regions. It is found that simple flux adjustment sufficiently suppressed the SST drift. Nevertheless, the lead-lag correlation analysis suggests that air–sea interactions are likely to be appropriately represented under flux adjustment. Thus, high-resolution coupled models with flux adjustment can substantially improve S2S prediction.

著者

Nishizawa Seiya Odaka Masatsugu Takahashi Yoshiyuki O. Sugiyama Ko-ichiro Nakajima Kensuke Ishiwatari Masaki Takehiro Shin-ichi Yashiro Hisashi Sato Yousuke Tomita Hirofumi Hayashi Yoshi-Yuki

出版者

American Geophysical Union

雑誌

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN:00948276)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.43, no.9, pp.4180-4188, 2016-05-16

被引用文献数

19

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火星ダストデビルの性質を解明-火星天気予報や火星有人探査への一歩-. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2016-07-27.