ISSN 1006-9895

CN 11-1768/O4

Rapid Intensification typhoon with“Atypical Convection”: The Role of Surface Latent Heat Flux
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Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster of Ministry of Education (KLME)/Joint International Research Laboratory of Climate and Environment Change (ILCEC), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China

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    In this study, rapidly intensifying (RI) tropical cyclones (TCs) with ‘Atypical’ convection in the Northwest Pacific were screened by using reanalysis data and infrared cloud images. A group of slow-intensifying (noRI) typhoons with ‘Typical’ convection were gathered for comparison. It is found that the RI group has a stronger maximum region of surface latent heat flux on the left side of the vertical wind shear (VWS) direction. To further explore possible mechanisms, the ‘Atypical’ convection case ‘Lekima’ (2019) was selected for sensitivity numerical experiments. The diagnostic results indicate that the surface latent heat flux on the left side of the VWS direction helps establish convective-instability in the region. Consequently, the effect of the "Ventilation effect" was weaken through the "Boundary layer entropy recovery" mechanism caused by the surface latent heat flux. Under easterly VWS, convection activity can be enhanced in high surface latent heat flux regions during the transition from the down-shear to the up-shear, thereby stimulating strong upper outflow channels. The establishment of outflow channels (Outflow blocking mechanism) can resist the environmental easterly flow, which weakening the strength of VWS, and allowing the typhoon to develop vertically.

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  • Received:May 17,2023
  • Revised:October 14,2023
  • Adopted:March 05,2024
  • Online: April 09,2024
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