Transport of Water Vapor over North China during the Drought Period in Summer of 1980

Liu Yongqiang; Ding Yihui; Li Yuehong

doi:10.1007/BF02657511

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Mar. 1992

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Article > ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES > 1992 > 9(2): 213-222

Transport of Water Vapor over North China during the Drought Period in Summer of 1980

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Academy of Meteorological Science, State Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081,Academy of Meteorological Science, State Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081,Academy of Meteorological Science, State Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081

doi: 10.1007/BF02657511

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Abstract:
The features of water vapor transport, such as temporal evolution, vertical structure and spatial pattern, over North China during the prolonged drought in the summer of 1980 have been analyzed through computation of water vapor flux based on the once daily ECMWF grid-point data at 12GMT. The results indicate that it is unlikely that the characteristics of the atmospheric mass divergence, ascending motion and stratification stability in North China were completely opposite to those in the Yangtze River Valley, where the heavy flood occurred in the summer of 1980. It is major differences that the strong ascending motion and significant water vapor convergence overlap fairly well each other in the vertical levels in the Yangtze River Valley, while the maximum ascending motion is accompa-nied by water vapor divergence or weak water vapor convergence in North China. This vertical structure in North China results in insufficient water vapor supply and, therefore, little condensation and precipitation in the middle and upper atmosphere were produced. Additionally, a mode of monthly-scale low frequency oscillation can be found in water vapor flux, which is in correspondence to the fluctuation period of rainfall.
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Manuscript received: 10 March 1992

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沈阳化工大学材料科学与工程学院沈阳 110142

Transport of Water Vapor over North China during the Drought Period in Summer of 1980

1. Academy of Meteorological Science, State Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081,Academy of Meteorological Science, State Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081,Academy of Meteorological Science, State Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081

Manuscript received: 1992-03-10
Manuscript revised: 1992-03-10

Abstract: The features of water vapor transport, such as temporal evolution, vertical structure and spatial pattern, over North China during the prolonged drought in the summer of 1980 have been analyzed through computation of water vapor flux based on the once daily ECMWF grid-point data at 12GMT. The results indicate that it is unlikely that the characteristics of the atmospheric mass divergence, ascending motion and stratification stability in North China were completely opposite to those in the Yangtze River Valley, where the heavy flood occurred in the summer of 1980. It is major differences that the strong ascending motion and significant water vapor convergence overlap fairly well each other in the vertical levels in the Yangtze River Valley, while the maximum ascending motion is accompa-nied by water vapor divergence or weak water vapor convergence in North China. This vertical structure in North China results in insufficient water vapor supply and, therefore, little condensation and precipitation in the middle and upper atmosphere were produced. Additionally, a mode of monthly-scale low frequency oscillation can be found in water vapor flux, which is in correspondence to the fluctuation period of rainfall.