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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (23): 182-188.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb15020093

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Analysis of Climate Characteristics and Circulation Background of Severe Convective Weather in Liuzhou City

  

  • Received:2015-02-19 Revised:2015-07-11 Accepted:2015-05-21 Online:2015-08-20 Published:2015-08-20

Abstract: Using the mesoscale data since 2005 from the automatic weather stations and the conventional observation data since 1951 from the meteorological observation stations, this article analyzed the climate characteristics and the type of severe convective weather in Liuzhou by the method of statistical analysis. The results showed that there were mainly three kinds of strong convective weather in Liuzhou which were hail, thunderstorms and short diachronic strong precipitation. Hail mainly occurred from February to April. Its decadal variation appeared as a single peak type. The period of high occurrence of hail was from 1970 to 1990. Thunderstorm decadal variation showed a linearly decrease trend of approximately 18.9 times on average for every 10 years. Before 1980, the times of occurrence were at a high level, and after 1990, times of occurrence declined rapidly. Short diachronic strong precipitation mainly occurred in the flood season from April to September and the annual variation tendency was not obvious. On the basis of statistical analysis, this article selected a typical case to analyze the circulation features of all kinds of strong convection weather by using the NCEP reanalysis data. The results showed that before the hail occurred, on 200 hPa level, Guangxi province was in the southwest jet which was in front of the trough, on 500 hPa level, Guangxi province was also in front of the trough, on 850hPa level, there was a low vortex shear in Guizhou. Liuzhou was in the southeast of the low vortex shear and in the strong convergence zone over the left side of the southwest jet. On the ground, there was usually a strong warm low or a trough of low pressure; before the short diachronic strong precipitation occurred, on the ground, Guangxi was generally in front of the warm area before the front, it mostly appeared as a warm sector rainstorm. Thunderstorms had three types which were mainly subtropical high edge type, cold fronts type and the low trough with edge of subtropical high type.