Abstract. Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) – long and narrow transient corridors of large horizontal moisture flux in the lower troposphere – are known to shape the hydrology of many regions around the globe. Heavy precipitation and flooding are often observed over many mountainous regions when the moisture-rich filaments impinge upon the elevated topographies. Although ARs and their impacts over many mountainous regions are well documented, their existence over the Himalayas and importance to the Himalayan hydrology have received negligible attention in the scientific literature. The Himalayas support more than a billion population in the Indian subcontinent, sustain the region's biodiversity, and play important roles in regulating the global climate. In this study, we develop a comprehensive database of ARs over the Himalayas using the European Reanalysis fifth-generation (ERA5) fields of humidity and winds. The AR database consists of the dates and times of ARs from 1982 to 2018, their duration, major axes, and intensities and categories. We find that majority of intense ARs are associated with extreme precipitation widespread over the Ganga and Indus basins of the Himalayas, suggesting that ARs have profound impacts on the hydrology of the region. The AR database developed here is envisioned to help in exploring the impacts of ARs on the hydrology and ecology of the Himalayas. For this, we provide a few brief future perspectives on AR-Himalayas relationships. The data developed in this study has been uploaded to the Zenodo repository at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4451901 (Nayak et al., 2021). The data is also included in the Supplemental Information for easier access.
摘要大气河(ARs)——对流层下层大量水平水汽通量的狭长瞬态走廊——已知影响着全球许多地区的水文。当富含水分的细丝撞击高架地形时,在许多山区经常观测到强降水和洪水。虽然ar及其对许多山区的影响已被充分记录,但它们在喜马拉雅山脉的存在及其对喜马拉雅水文的重要性在科学文献中受到忽略。喜马拉雅山脉供养着印度次大陆超过10亿的人口,维持着该地区的生物多样性,并在调节全球气候方面发挥着重要作用。在这项研究中,我们利用欧洲第五代再分析(ERA5)湿度和风场建立了喜马拉雅地区ARs的综合数据库。AR数据库包括1982年至2018年期间AR的日期和时间、持续时间、主要轴、强度和类别。研究发现,大多数强ar与喜马拉雅恒河和印度河流域的极端降水有关,表明ar对该地区的水文具有深远的影响。在此开发的AR数据库旨在帮助探索AR对喜马拉雅水文和生态的影响。为此,我们提供了一些对未来ar -喜马拉雅关系的简要展望。本研究开发的数据已上传到Zenodo存储库https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4451901 (Nayak et al., 2021)。这些数据也包含在补充信息中,以便于查阅。
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K. Lapo, A. Freundorfer, A. Fritz, Johann Schneider, Johannes Olesch, W. Babel, Christoph K. Thomas
Abstract. The weak-wind Stable Boundary Layer (wwSBL) is poorly described by theory and breaks basic assumptions necessary for observations of turbulence. Understanding the wwSBL requires distributed observations capable of separating between submeso and turbulent scales. To this end, we present the Large Eddy Observatory, Voitsumra Experiment 2019 (LOVE19) which featured 1350 m of fiber optic distributed sensing (FODS) of air temperature and wind speed, as well as an experimental wind direction method, at scales as fine as 1 s and 0.127 m in addition to a suite of point observations of turbulence and ground-based remote sensing. Additionally, flights with a fiber optic cable attached to a tethered balloon provide an unprecedented detailed view of the boundary layer structure with a resolution of 0.254 m and 10 s between 1–200 m height. Two examples are provided demonstrating the unique capabilities of the LOVE19 data for examining boundary layer processes: 1) FODS observations between 1m and ~200 m height during a period of gravity waves propagating across the entire boundary layer and 2) tracking a near-surface, transient submeso structure that causes an intermittent burst of turbulence. All data can be accessed at Zenodo through the DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4312976 (Lapo et al., 2020a).
摘要弱风稳定边界层(wwSBL)的理论描述很差,并且打破了观测湍流所必需的基本假设。了解wssbl需要能够在亚中尺度和湍流尺度之间分离的分布式观测。为此,我们提出了大涡天文台Voitsumra实验2019 (LOVE19),该实验以1350 m的光纤分布式传感(FODS)为特征,在1 s和0.127 m的尺度上进行气温和风速,以及实验风向方法,此外还有一套湍流点观测和地面遥感。此外,将光纤电缆连接到系留气球上的飞行提供了前所未有的边界层结构详细视图,分辨率为0.254米,在1-200米高度之间为10秒。本文提供了两个例子来证明LOVE19数据在检测边界层过程方面的独特能力:1)在重力波传播整个边界层期间,FODS观测高度在1米至~200米之间;2)跟踪导致间歇性湍流爆发的近地表瞬态亚中尺度结构。所有数据均可通过DOI https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4312976 (Lapo et al., 2020a)在Zenodo访问。
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