An Objective Identification Method for Wintertime Cold Fronts in Eurasia

The present study identifies wintertime cold fronts in Eurasia from gridded datasets using a new objective two-step identification scheme. The simple and classic conception of a front is adopted, where a cold front is identified as the warm boundary of the frontal zone with a suitable horizontal tem...

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Veröffentlicht in:Advances in atmospheric sciences Jg. 38; H. 10; S. 1695 - 1705
Hauptverfasser: Feng, Mengru, Qin, Yujing, Lu, Chuhan
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg Science Press 01.10.2021
Springer Nature B.V
Key Laboratory of Meteorological Disaster,Ministry of Education/Collaborative Innovation Center on Forecast and Evaluation of Meteorological Disasters,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,Nanjing 210044,China
Schlagworte:
Advection
Atmospheric Sciences
Climate and Weather Extremes
Cold
Cold front
Cold fronts
Cold waves
Cold weather
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Geophysics/Geodesy
Identification
Identification methods
Meteorology
Original Paper
Parameter identification
Temperature gradients
Thermal fronts
Weather
Weather analysis
Eurasia
objective identification
cold front
Eurasia
热锋面参数
欧亚大陆
客观识别
winter
thermal front parameter
冬半年
冷锋
ISSN:0256-1530, 1861-9533
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Zusammenfassung:The present study identifies wintertime cold fronts in Eurasia from gridded datasets using a new objective two-step identification scheme. The simple and classic conception of a front is adopted, where a cold front is identified as the warm boundary of the frontal zone with a suitable horizontal temperature gradient and cold advection. We combine the traditional thermal front parameter with temperature advection to first identify the cold frontal zone, and then its eastern and southern boundaries are objectively plotted as a cold front in Eurasia. By comparing different cold front identification methods, the results from this two-step cold front identification method and subjective analysis are more consistent, and the positions of the cold front identified with our method are more reasonable. This objective technique is also applied to a nationwide cold wave event over China. Results show that the horizontal extent and movement of the cold front are in good agreement with the related circulation and the associated cold weather. The proposed method and results in this study may shed light on the rapid identification of cold fronts in operational weather analysis and facilitate further research on the long-term activity characteristics of continental cold fronts.
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ISSN:0256-1530
1861-9533
DOI:10.1007/s00376-021-0315-8