On the Distribution of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation in Tropical Cyclones from Airborne Doppler Radar and Its Relationship to Intensity Change and Environmental Wind Shear Direction

Wadler, J.B.; Cione, J.J.; Rogers, R.F.; Fischer, M.S.

doi:10.1175/MWR-D-23-0048.1

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On the Distribution of Convective and Stratiform Precipitation in Tropical Cyclones from Airborne Doppler Radar and Its Relationship to Intensity Change and Environmental Wind Shear Direction

2023
By Wadler, J.B. ; Cione, J.J. ; Rogers, R.F. ; ...
Source: Mon. Wea. Rev., 151, 3209–3233

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Monthly Weather Review
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Wadler, J.B. ; Cione, J.J. ; Rogers, R.F. ; Fischer, M.S.

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Airborne Doppler radar reflectivity data collected in hurricanes on the NOAA P-3 aircraft between 1997 and 2021 were parsed into different modes of precipitation: stratiform precipitation, shallow convection, moderate convection, and deep convection. Stratiform precipitation was the most frequent precipitation mode with 82.6% of all observed precipitation while deep convection was the most infrequent at 1.3%. When stratified by 12-h intensity change, intensifying TCs had a greater areal coverage of total convection in the eyewall compared to weakening and steady-state TCs. The largest difference in the azimuthal distributions in the precipitation modes was in deep convection, which was mostly confined to the downshear-left quadrant in weakening and steady-state hurricanes and more symmetrically distributed in intensifying hurricanes. For all intensity change categories, the most symmetrically distributed precipitation mode was stratiform rain. To build upon the results of a recent thermodynamic study, the precipitation data were recategorized for hurricanes experiencing deep-layer wind shear with either a northerly component or southerly component. Like intensifying storms, hurricanes that experienced northerly component shear had a more symmetric distribution of deep convection than southerly component shear storms, which had a distribution of deep convection that resembled weakening storms. The greatest difference in the precipitation distributions between the shear direction groups were in major hurricanes experiencing moderate (4.5–11 m s−1) wind shear values. Consistent with previous airborne radar studies, the results suggest that considering the distribution of deep convection and the thermodynamic distributions associated with differing environmental wind shear direction could aid TC intensity forecasts.
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Hurricanes Radar Typhoons Deep Convection Precipitation Radar Observations Stratiform Clouds Tropical Cyclones
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Mon. Wea. Rev., 151, 3209–3233
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