l July 5, 2005

Research Images July 7, 2005


Below is a recap of the timeseries of the (1) tropopause theta enkf analysis timeseries, (2) the tropopause theta field at 11/19 6 UTC (weakest point) and (3) 11/21 12 UTC (strongest point), (4) Timeseries of EnKF and GFS analyses for tropopause theta and (5) pressure:
Overview: Vortex at its weakest and strongest amplitudes
The soundings we looked at earlier:
Model soundings
Cross sections of relative humidity (colors), vertical motion (red = rising, blue = descending), and potential vorticity (black solid lines, contours = 0.5, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 5). The one with the 'ew' in the name of the image is the east-west cross section and the one with the 'ns' in the name of the image is the north-south cross section:
Relative humidity, vertical motion (rising motion in red, descending blue), pv (contours at 0.5, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 5)
Precipitation (reflectivity as in Ryan's Matlab script). Note the colorbar is NOT fixed:
Precipitation (Reflectivity) loop