Mostafa Karampour, Yeganeh Khamoshian Sahneh, Zohreh Ebrahimi, Hamed Heidari,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-1921)
Abstract
In recent years, much attention has been allocated to the study of atmospheric rivers because atmospheric rivers are massive carriers of moisture from remote areas. In this study, atmospheric rivers were studied for Iran and the neighboring countries in terms of their source of formation and their relationship and correlation with the NAO index. To study them the 1994 to 2019 data of various climatic elements such as Vwind, Function wind, NAO,, wind Shum, Meridonal wind were used. The results showed that during the study period, the ARs direction became more southerly, and jet streams played a major role in producing and determining the direction of river flow. Jetstream performance can also be used to determine the potential of an area in identifying atmospheric rivers. The highest correlation of the Transatlantic Transplant Index is with the tidal currents at the levels of 500 and 400. If the pressure centers are located in the southern part of the atmospheric rivers and the jet streams reach the eastern regions about 60 degrees, the length of the atmospheric rivers will reach more than 12,000 kilometers and affect the eastern regions of Iran to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Ms. Aida Faroghi, Professor Manuchehr Farajzadeh, ,
Volume 0, Issue 0 (3-1921)
Abstract
In this research, the frequency of merging of the polar-front and subtropical jet streams and its effect on the amount of precipitation received from the atmospheric pattern in western Iran during the 10-year statistical period of 2010-2019 was investigated. Then, by coding in Grads, the maps of jet stream level 300 hPa were drawn with a time interval of 6 hours. During the statistical period, these two jet streams merged along their axis. By examining the frequency of the merging of two jet streams, it was found that until 2015, the frequency of the merging of two jet streams in December was an increasing trend and in 2016 and 2017, there was a decreasing trend. It has increased again in 2018 and 2019. In all cases, the merging of two jet streams has not resulted in heavy precipitation events (December 2011, 2014 and 2017). So, considering the heavy rainfall of 110 mm from Dehloran station, the date of 12th to 15th of December was chosen to analyze and understand the system that led to the occurrence of rainfall. From December 12 to 15, 2010, the decrease in air temperature over Europe and Southwest Asia led to a large meridional movement of the polar-front jet stream, which resulted in merging with the subtropical monsoon. On the 12th of December 2010, along with the medicalization of the polar-front jet stream and its penetration into the tropical regions, its velocity core merged with the core of the subtropical jet stream over the northern Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea and northeastern Africa. The merging of these two jet streams has led to the vertical expansion of the jet to lower levels, and in the middle level of the atmosphere, very low meridional movement is observed. As a result, the Sudan low moves to higher latitudes and merges with the Mediterranean low pressure.
