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Brief Communication: An electrifying atmospheric river – understanding the thunderstorm event in Santa Barbara County during March 2019

Nash, Deanna ; Carvalho, Leila M. V

Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 2020-07, Vol.20 (7), p.1931-1940 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Katlenburg-Lindau: Copernicus GmbH

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  • Título:
    Brief Communication: An electrifying atmospheric river – understanding the thunderstorm event in Santa Barbara County during March 2019
  • Autor: Nash, Deanna ; Carvalho, Leila M. V
  • Assuntos: Air currents ; Belt conveyors ; Climate ; Communication ; Convective available potential energy ; Electrification ; Fires ; Floods ; Freezing ; Freezing level ; Hail ; Lightning ; Lightning flashes ; Lightning strikes ; Mesoscale features ; Potential energy ; Precipitation ; Storms ; Thunderstorms ; Troposphere ; Warm air ; Water vapor ; Water vapor content ; Water vapour ; Weather ; Winter storms
  • É parte de: Natural hazards and earth system sciences, 2020-07, Vol.20 (7), p.1931-1940
  • Descrição: On 5 March 2019 12:00 UTC, an atmospheric river (AR) made landfall in Santa Barbara, CA, and lasted approximately 30 h. While ARs are typical winter storms in the area, the extraordinary number of lightning strikes observed near coastal Santa Barbara made this event unique. The Earth Networks Global Lightning Network (ENGLN) detected 8811 lightning flashes around southern California (30 to 37∘ N and 130 to 115∘ W) in 24 h, which is roughly 2500 times the climatological flash rate in this region. The AR-related thunderstorm resulted in approximately 23.18 mm accumulated precipitation in 30 h in Santa Barbara. This article examines synoptic and mesoscale features conducive to this electrifying AR event, characterizing its uniqueness in the context of previous March events that made landfall in the region. We show that this AR was characterized by an unusual deep moist layer extending from the low to mid-troposphere in an environment with potential instability and low-elevation freezing level. Despite the negligible convective available potential energy (CAPE) during the peak of the thunderstorm near Santa Barbara, the lifting of layers with high water vapor content in the AR via warm conveyor belt and orographic forcing in a convectively unstable atmosphere resulted in the formation of hail and enhanced electrification.
  • Editor: Katlenburg-Lindau: Copernicus GmbH
  • Idioma: Inglês
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