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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 42, 期 6, 页码 2015-2023出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063125
关键词
front; fire weather; Rossby wave; wildfire; bushfire
资金
- Australian Research Council [DP13010186]
The most catastrophic fires in recent history in southern Australia have been associated with extreme cold fronts. Here an extreme cold front is defined as one for which the maximum temperature at 2m is at least 17 degrees C lower on the day following the front. An anticyclone, which precedes the cold front, directs very dry northerlies or northwesterlies from the interior of the continent across the region. The passage of the cold front is followed by strong southerlies or southwesterlies. European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ERA-Interim Reanalyses show that this regional synoptic pattern common to all strong cold fronts, and hence severe fire conditions, is a consequence of propagating Rossby waves, which grow to large amplitude and eventually irreversibly overturn. The process of overturning produces the low-level anticyclone and dry conditions over southern Australia, while simultaneously producing an upper level trough and often precipitation in northeastern Australia.
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