DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2018.04.009
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85047066485
论文题名: The Hamburg Tornado (7 June 2016) from the perspective of low-cost high-resolution radar data and weather forecast model
作者: Hoffmann P. ; Merker C. ; Lengfeld K. ; Ament F.
刊名: Atmospheric Research
ISSN: 1698095
出版年: 2018
卷: 211 起始页码: 1
结束页码: 11
语种: 英语
英文关键词: CCAM
; Numerical modelling
; Tornado
; Weather forecast
; X-band radar
Scopus关键词: Costs
; Numerical models
; Radar
; Tornadoes
; CCAM
; Computational costs
; Downscaling methods
; High resolution radar
; Temporal resolution
; Tornadic thunderstorms
; Weather forecast models
; X-band Radars
; Weather forecasting
; atmospheric modeling
; extreme event
; numerical model
; radar
; severe weather
; temporal analysis
; thunderstorm
; tornado
; urban atmosphere
; weather forecasting
; Germany
; Hamburg [Germany]
英文摘要: A tornado hit the northeastern suburbs of Hamburg, Germany, on 7 June 2016. It had an estimated strength of upper end F1 on the Fujita scale and was short-lived with an approximate duration of only 13 min and a path length of just about 1.3 km. We demonstrate that such a small-scale, extreme event can be observed and forecasted accurately by a low-cost radar and by an atmospheric model with low computational costs, respectively. Observations from a low-cost single polarized X-band radar covering the urban area of Hamburg with 60 m spatial and 30 s temporal resolution are analyzed with respect to their ability to capture the development as well as the track of the tornado. In contrast to the national C-band radar network, the X-band radar is capable of capturing the hook echo of the tornado as well as the circular pattern in rain rates, because of its higher resolution in space and time. High-resolution forecasts of the tornado event are conducted with the computational efficient Conformal Cubic Atmosphere Model (CCAM) in order to test the capability of predicting the tornado with a lead time of a few hours. A three step downscaling method is used to obtain a spatial resolution of 1 km with initial conditions taken from the NCEP analysis. Calculated severe weather indices clearly indicate a potential for a tornado. CCAM cannot explicitly resolve small scale tornadic features but the model simulates a strong convective cell only a few kilometers apart from the tornadic thunderstorm observed by the radar. © 2018 The Authors Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/108838
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; MeteoSwiss, Zürich, Switzerland; Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Hoffmann P.,Merker C.,Lengfeld K.,et al. The Hamburg Tornado (7 June 2016) from the perspective of low-cost high-resolution radar data and weather forecast model[J]. Atmospheric Research,2018-01-01,211