Diagnosing the possible dynamics controlling Sahel precipitation in the short-range ensemble community atmospheric model hindcasts

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Title:	Diagnosing the possible dynamics controlling Sahel precipitation in the short-range ensemble community atmospheric model hindcasts
Authors:	楊舒芝;Tseng, Yu-heng;Lin, Yen-heng;Lo, Min-hui;Yang, Shu-chih
Contributors:	地球科學學院大氣科學學系
Keywords:	Analysis;Atmosphere;Boundary conditions;Climate;Climate models;Climatology;Data collection;drying;Dynamic meteorology;dynamic models;Earth and Environmental Science;Earth Sciences;Geophysics/Geodesy;heat;Oceanography;Precipitation;Precipitation (Meteorology);prediction;rain;Rainfall;Sahel;Studies;summer;temperature;Temperature gradients
Date:	2016-11-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-21 14:17:48 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	Springer Verlag;Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract:	摘要： The actual dynamics and physical mechanisms affecting the Sahel precipitation pattern and amplitude in the climate models remain under debate due to the inconsistent drying and rainfall variability/pattern among them. We diagnose the boreal summer rainfall pattern in the Sahel and its possible causes using short-range ensemble hindcasts based on NCAR community atmospheric model with the local ensemble transform Kalman filter (CAM-LETKF) data assimilation. The CAM-LETKF assimilation was conducted using 64 ensemble members with an assimilation cycle of 6-h. By comparing the superior and inferior groups within these 64 ensembles, we confirmed the influence of the Atlantic in the West Sahel rainfall (a robust feature in the ensembles) and a severe model bias resulting from erroneously modeled locations and magnitudes of low-level Sahara heat low (SHL) and African easterly jet (AEJ). This bias is highly related to atmospheric jet dynamics as shown in recent studies and local wave instability triggered mainly by the boundary-layer temperature gradient and amplified by land–atmosphere interactions. In particular, our results demonstrated that more accurate divergence and convergence fields resulting from improved SHL and AEJ in the superior groups enabled more accurate rainbelt patterns to be discerned, thus improving the ensemble mean model hindcast prediction by more than 25 % in precipitation and 16 % in temperature. We concluded that the use of low-resolution climate models to project future rainfall in the Sahel requires caution because the model hindcasts may quickly diverge even the same boundary conditions and forcings are applied. The model bias may easily grow up within a few months in the short-range CAM-LETKF hindcast, let along the free model centennial simulations. Unconstrained future climate model projections for the Sahel must more effectively capture the short-term key boundary-layer dynamics in the boreal summer to be credible regardless model dynamics and physics. 其他題名： Clim Dyn 出版者： Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 出版日期： 2016-11 出處： Climate dynamics, 2016-11, Vol.47 (9-10), p.2747-2764 資源來源： Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection 版權： Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 版權： COPYRIGHT 2016 Springer 識別號： ISSN: 0930-7575 識別號： EISSN: 1432-0894 識別號： DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2995-9
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