DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0432.1
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85017523487
论文题名: Characterization of heat waves in the Sahel and associated physical mechanisms
作者: Oueslati B. ; Pohl B. ; Moron V. ; Rome S. ; Janicot S.
刊名: Journal of Climate
ISSN: 8948755
出版年: 2017
卷: 30, 期: 9 起始页码: 3095
结束页码: 3115
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Atmospheric pressure
; Atmospheric temperature
; Atmospheric thermodynamics
; Budget control
; Developing countries
; Greenhouse effect
; Temperature
; Thermodynamics
; Water vapor
; Cloud radiative effects
; ENSO
; Heat budgets/fluxes
; Radiative fluxes
; Surface temperatures
; Climatology
英文摘要: Great effort is made to address heat waves (HWs) in developed countries because of their devastating impacts on society, economy, and environment. However, HWs are still understudied over developing countries. This is particularly true in West Africa, and especially in the Sahel, where temperatures recurrently reach critical values, such as during the 2010 HW event in the western Sahel. This work aims at characterizing the Sahelian HWs during boreal spring seasons (April-May-June) and understanding the mechanisms associated with such extreme events. Over the last three decades, Sahelian HWs have been becoming more frequent, lasting longer, covering larger areas, and reaching higher intensities. The physical mechanisms associated with HWs are examined to assess the respective roles of atmospheric dynamics and radiative and turbulent fluxes by analyzing the surface energy budget. Results suggest that the greenhouse effect of water vapor is the main driver of HWs in the western Sahel, increasing minimum temperatures by enhanced downward longwave radiation. Atmospheric circulation plays an important role in sustaining these warm anomalies by advecting moisture from the Atlantic Ocean and the Guinean coasts into the Sahel. Maximum temperature anomalies are mostly explained by increased downward shortwave radiation due to a reduction in cloud cover. Interannual variability of HWs is affected by the delayed impact of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), with anomalous temperature warming following warm ENSO events, resulting from an amplified water vapor feedback. © 2017 American Meteorological Society. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/49674
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作者单位: Centre de Recherche de Climatologie, UMR 6282 Biogéosciences, CNRS/Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France; Université Aix-Marseille, UM 34 CNRS, CEREGE, Aix-en-Provence, France; Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States; Université Grenoble Alpes, LTHE UMR 5564, Grenoble, France; LOCEAN, Sorbonne Universités UPMC-IRD-MNHN, UMR 7159, Paris, France
Recommended Citation:
Oueslati B.,Pohl B.,Moron V.,et al. Characterization of heat waves in the Sahel and associated physical mechanisms[J]. Journal of Climate,2017-01-01,30(9)