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An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones
Northwestern Pacific (NWP) tropical cyclones (TCs) impose a severe threat to the life and economy of the people living in East Asian countries. The microphysical features, mainly the raindrop size distributions (RSD) of TCs that improve the modeling simulation and rainfall estimation algorithms, are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10023739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36932090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29144-4 |
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author | Seela, Balaji Kumar Janapati, Jayalakshmi Lin, Pay-Liam Lee, Meng-Tze |
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description | Northwestern Pacific (NWP) tropical cyclones (TCs) impose a severe threat to the life and economy of the people living in East Asian countries. The microphysical features, mainly the raindrop size distributions (RSD) of TCs that improve the modeling simulation and rainfall estimation algorithms, are limited to case studies, and an extensive understanding of TCs’ RSD is still scarce over the northwest Pacific. Here, we examine a comprehensive outlook on disparities in microphysical attributes of NWP TCs with radial distance and storm type, using sixteen years of disdrometer, ground-based radar, and reanalysis datasets in north Taiwan. We find that dominant stratiform precipitation in the inner rainbands leads to the occurrence of more bigger drops in the inner rainbands than the inner core and outer rainbands. Moreover, a decrease in mass-weighted mean diameter and rainfall rate with radial distance is associated with a reduction in moisture availability for various circumstances, and this association is deceptive in intense storms. Our findings give an insight into crucial processes governing microphysical inequalities in different regions of NWP TCs, with implications for the ground-based and remote-sensing rainfall estimation algorithms. |
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spelling | pubmed-100237392023-03-19 An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones Seela, Balaji Kumar Janapati, Jayalakshmi Lin, Pay-Liam Lee, Meng-Tze Sci Rep Article Northwestern Pacific (NWP) tropical cyclones (TCs) impose a severe threat to the life and economy of the people living in East Asian countries. The microphysical features, mainly the raindrop size distributions (RSD) of TCs that improve the modeling simulation and rainfall estimation algorithms, are limited to case studies, and an extensive understanding of TCs’ RSD is still scarce over the northwest Pacific. Here, we examine a comprehensive outlook on disparities in microphysical attributes of NWP TCs with radial distance and storm type, using sixteen years of disdrometer, ground-based radar, and reanalysis datasets in north Taiwan. We find that dominant stratiform precipitation in the inner rainbands leads to the occurrence of more bigger drops in the inner rainbands than the inner core and outer rainbands. Moreover, a decrease in mass-weighted mean diameter and rainfall rate with radial distance is associated with a reduction in moisture availability for various circumstances, and this association is deceptive in intense storms. Our findings give an insight into crucial processes governing microphysical inequalities in different regions of NWP TCs, with implications for the ground-based and remote-sensing rainfall estimation algorithms. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10023739/ /pubmed/36932090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29144-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Seela, Balaji Kumar Janapati, Jayalakshmi Lin, Pay-Liam Lee, Meng-Tze An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones |
title | An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones |
title_full | An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones |
title_fullStr | An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones |
title_full_unstemmed | An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones |
title_short | An insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest Pacific tropical cyclones |
title_sort | insight into the microphysical attributes of northwest pacific tropical cyclones |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10023739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36932090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-29144-4 |
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