期刊
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 123, 期 7, 页码 3812-3829出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027829
关键词
tropical organized convection; Sumatra squalls; precipitation; stable isotopic composition; El Nino; Singapore
资金
- National Research Foundation Singapore
- Singapore Ministry of Education under the Research Centres of Excellence initiative
- National Research Foundation Singapore under its Singapore NRF Fellowship scheme [NRF-RF2012-03]
- IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP) [F31004]
Sumatra Squalls, organized bands of thunderstorms, are the dominant mesoscale convective systems during the intermonsoon and southwest monsoon seasons in Singapore. To understand how they affect precipitation isotopes, we monitored the value of precipitation daily and continuously (every second and integrated over 30s) during all squalls in 2015. We found that precipitation O-18 values mainly exhibit a V-shape pattern and less commonly a W-shape pattern. Variation in O-18 values during a single event is about 1 to 6 with the lowest values mostly observed in the stratiform zone, which agrees with previous observations and modeling simulations. Reevaporation can significantly affect values, especially in the last stage of the stratiform zone. Daily precipitation is characterized by periodic negative shifts in value, largely associated with the squalls rather than moisture source change. The shifts can be more than 10, larger than intraevent variation. Initial O-18 values of events are highly variable, and those with the lowest values also have the lowest initial values. Therefore, past convective activities in the upwind area can significantly affect the O-18, and convection at the sampling site has limited contribution to isotopic variability. A significant correlation between precipitation O-18 value and regional outgoing longwave radiation and rainfall in the Asian monsoon region and western Pacific suggests that regional organized convection probably drives stable isotopic compositions of precipitation. A drop in the frequency of the squalls in 2015 is related to weak organized convection in the region caused by El Nino.
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