In Situ Initiation of East Pacific Easterly Waves in a Regional Model

Rydbeck, Adam V.; Maloney, Eric D.; Alaka, Ghassan J.

doi:10.1175/jas-d-16-0124.1

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In Situ Initiation of East Pacific Easterly Waves in a Regional Model

2017
By Rydbeck, Adam V. ; Maloney, Eric D. ; Alaka, Ghassan J.
Source: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(2), 333-351.

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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
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Rydbeck, Adam V. ; Maloney, Eric D. ; Alaka, Ghassan J.

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OAR (Oceanic and Atmospheric Research) ; AOML (Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) ; CPO (Climate Program Office) ; CIMAS (Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies)

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The in situ generation of easterly waves (EWs) in the east Pacific (EPAC) is investigated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model. The sensitivity of the model to the suppression of EW forcing by locally generated convective disturbances is examined. Specifically, local forcing of EWs is removed by reducing the terrain height in portions of Central and South America to suppress robust sources of diurnal convective variability, most notably in the Panama Bight. High terrain contributes to the initiation of mesoscale convective systems in the early morning that propagate westward into the EPAC warm pool. When such mesoscale convective systems are suppressed in the model, EW variance is significantly reduced. This result suggests that EPAC EWs can be generated locally in association with higher-frequency convective disturbances, and these disturbances are determined to be an important source of EPAC EW variability. However, EPAC EW variability is not completely eliminated in such sensitivity experiments, indicating the importance for other sources of EW forcing, namely, EWs propagating into the EPAC from West Africa. Examination of the EW vorticity budget in the model suggests that nascent waves are zonally elongated and amplified by horizontal advection and vertical stretching of vorticity. Changes in the mean state between the control run and simulation with reduced terrain height also complicate interpretation of the results.
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Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 74(2), 333-351.
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