Asteria Satyaning Handayani, Theodorus Permana, Yuzuru Isoda
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Abstract
Coastal urban areas in tropical regions, such as Greater Jakarta (GJ) in Indonesia, are susceptible to flood hazards from torrential rainfall. Efforts to understand the convective mechanisms leading to this type of rainfall have been carried out extensively, especially for events occurring in the wet season. However, hydrometeorological risks persist even in the dry season, when the rainfall is more closely correlated with the diurnal wind circulation. Among the aspects of convective activities and this diurnal circulation, the details of the updraft remain the least studied and open for discussion. We investigate the role of the updraft in urban torrential rainfall over GJ, using data from a C-band Doppler radar and reanalysis dataset during the dry season of 2018–2019. Employing back-trajectory calculations, we locate updraft origins corresponding to the peak of daytime inland rainfall. Most updraft origins are localized at an NW–SE-oriented front nearly parallel to the coastline on the low-lying plain, suggesting a region of atmospheric destabilization favorable for convective activity. The dry-season torrential rainfall over GJ may involve convective activity from this front, that from earlier updrafts originating above the densely populated area, and further enhancement coming from orographic contributions. Our findings suggest the important role of updrafts in the rainfall generation, providing insights into the convective mechanism over GJ.
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