Asymmetric Inner-Core Structure and its Impact on Rapid Intensification of a Sheared Tropical Cyclone

Liu, Bojun; Wang, Mingjun; Zhao, Kun

doi:10.3389/feart.2022.871540

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“…The circulation of a TC can be separated into two regions, that is, an inner‐core and an outer‐core. The development of a TC has been found to be closely correlated with its inner‐core structure properties, such as the TC eye radius (Shen, 2006), eyewall structure (Li et al., 2019; Ohno et al., 2016), warm core strength, and height (Chen & Zhang, 2013; Wang & Jiang, 2019), and convection asymmetry (Liu et al., 2022). In addition, outer‐core characteristics and processes, such as the external wind field (Xu & Wang, 2015), vertical wind shear (Frank & Ritchie, 2001; Ryglicki et al., 2018), and heating in the outer rainband (Wang, 2009), are also crucial to the intensity change of a TC.…”

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Sensitivity Analysis of Assimilating Doppler Radar Radial Winds Within the Inner‐ and Outer‐Core Regions of Tropical Cyclones

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The assimilation of Doppler radar radial wind observations is important for improving tropical cyclone (TC) prediction. However, the specific impacts and contributions of these observations over different areas are still unclear. In this study, the impact of assimilating radar radial winds within the inner‐ and outer‐cores of TCs is evaluated. For TC Mujigae (2015), analyses suggest that although the outer‐core observations better improve the upper‐level outflow of the TC, the inner‐core observations contribute more to enhancing tangential wind and updraft near the eyewall as well as correcting the TC size, warm core structure, and asymmetrical eyewall convection. The improvements conferred by the assimilating the total observations in the analysis and forecasting of TC tracks and intensities are mainly contributed by the inner‐core observations. This is probably because: (a) the model has a higher deficiency in simulating the TC inner‐core structure, which leads to a larger background deviation relative to the observations and the assimilation increment contributed by the inner‐core observations; (b) as determined by the stronger nonlinearity of the physical processes, the ensemble spread (i.e., model uncertainty) around the inner core is larger, resulting in a more distinct impact of data assimilation. The significant improvements in the inner‐core observations are further consolidated by analyses of two other TCs of different sizes and intensities, in which the number of inner‐core observations accounts for only 1/3 of the total on average. The TC inner‐core area should be a major consideration of future TC observation projects.

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