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Dynamics of sting-jet storm Egon over continental Europe: Impact of surface properties and model resolution

Eisenstein, L. ORCID iD icon 1; Pantillon, F. 1; Knippertz, P. ORCID iD icon 1
1 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung (IMK), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

Intense Shapiro–Keyser cyclones are often accompanied by a sting jet (SJ), an air stream that descends from the cloud head into the frontal‐fracture region and can cause extreme surface gusts. Previous case‐studies have concentrated on the North Atlantic and the British Isles. Here we present the first‐ever detailed analysis of an SJ over continental Europe and investigate the influence of topography on its dynamical evolution based on observations and high‐resolution simulations using the ICOsahedral Nonhydrostatic model (ICON). Windstorm Egon intensified over the English Channel and then tracked from northern France to Poland on 12–13 January 2017, causing gusts of almost 150 km·h−1 and important damage. ICON reproduces the storm dynamics, although it delays the explosive deepening, shifts the track southward over Belgium and Germany and underestimates gusts over land. Storm characteristics show weak sensitivity to varying grid spacing between 1.6 and 6.5 km, while switching off the convection parametrization at 3.3 km grid spacing improves correlations with surface observations but deteriorates the mean error. Trajectories reveal typical SJ characteristics such as mid‐level descent, strong acceleration and conditional symmetric and other mesoscale instabilities, while evaporative cooling is stronger than in previous cases from the literature, preventing drying during descent. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000104798
Veröffentlicht am 10.02.2020
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DOI: 10.1002/qj.3666
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung Troposphärenforschung (IMKTRO)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2020
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 0035-9009, 1477-870X
KITopen-ID: 1000104798
HGF-Programm 12.01.02 (POF III, LK 01) Proc.res.f.multisc.predictab.of weather
Erschienen in Quarterly journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
Verlag John Wiley and Sons
Band 146
Heft 726
Seiten 186-210
Vorab online veröffentlicht am 30.09.2019
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