Analysis of jet streams frequency occurrence during extreme precipitation on east Azarbaijan

Halabian, Amir Hossein; Hosseinalipour, Fereshteh

doi:10.22111/jneh.2020.26806.1448

Analysis of jet streams frequency occurrence during extreme precipitation on east Azarbaijan

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

¹ Associate professor, Geography Department, Payame Noor University, Iran

² M.A.in climatology

10.22111/jneh.2020.26806.1448

Abstract

In this research, the frequency of the jet streams during extreme and pervasive precipitation have been analyzed using environmental to circulation approach. Therefore daily precipitation data of 11 synoptic stations have been extracted from January, 1^st, 1951 to March, 20^th,2013 (22725 days) from Iran meteorological organization. Then, by using two thresholds of extensiveness and intensity of precipitation occurrence( at least, half of the stations receive the precipitation and the average precipitation of stations will be more than 99^th percentile average), 97 days had been recognized. Then, jet streams frequency and their locations and speed have been calculated on the frame of 0° to 120° E and 0° to 80° N for each pixel(1617) in levels 250, 300, 400 and 500 hPa ) at 00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00 UTC. The results indicate that jet streams over 300, 400 and 500 hPa levels and at 18:00 UTC observe over the study area. The highest frequency of jet streams is located in the north of Saudi Arabia. At the same time, the average speed maps of jet stream in conforming with the maximum frequency of jet stream on one hand and on the other hand is simultaneous with occurring the maximum speed of jet stream over study area that indicates the output axis of jet stream is toward the semi-western parts of Iran and east Azarbaijan is located on the left output part of jet streams where atmospheric divergence and instability occurred in all the observations. This can result in an expansion of air mass at the upper level or ascending vertical motion. Generally, the elongation of jet streams mostly until 500 hPa level at 18:00 indicates the thickness of the instability layer that can create the extreme and pervasiveprecipitation on east Azarbaijan.

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