Analysis of possible triggering mechanisms of severe thunderstorms in the Tropical Central Andes of Peru, Mantaro Valley

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dc.contributor.authorFlores Rojas, José Luis
dc.contributor.authorMoya Álvarez, Aldo Saturnino
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Shailendra
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Castro, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorVillalobos Puma, Elver Edmundo
dc.contributor.authorSilva Vidal, Yamina
dc.coverage.spatialValle del Mantaro
dc.coverage.spatialHuancayo
dc.coverage.spatialJunín
dc.coverage.spatialAndes
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-24T12:30:45Z
dc.date.available2019-06-24T12:30:45Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-01
dc.description.abstractThe aim of the present study is to analyze the triggering mechanisms of three thunderstorms (TSs) associated with severe rainfall, hail and lightening in the tropical central Andes of Peru, specifically above the Huancayo observatory (12.04º S, 75.32º W, 3313 m a.s.l.) located in the Mantaro valley during the spring-summer season (2015–2016). For this purpose, we used a set of in-situ pluviometric observations, satellite remote sensing data, the Compact Meteorological Ka-Band Cloud Radar (MIRA-35C), the Boundary Layer Tropospheric Radar and downscaling model simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model (resolutions: 18 km, 6 km and 2 km), and the Advance Regional Prediction System (ARPS) (resolution: 0.5 km) models in order to analyze the dynamic of the atmosphere in the synoptic, meso and local scales processes that control the occurrence of the three TS events. The results show that at synoptic scale, the TSs are characterized by the southern displacement of the South-east Pacific Subtropical Anticyclone up to latitudes higher than 35º S, by the weakening and south-eastern displacement of the Bolivian high–North east low system and by the intrusion of westerly winds along the west side of the central Andes at upper and medium levels of the atmosphere. At meso-scale, apparently, two important moisture fluxes from opposite directions are filtered through the passes along the Andes: one from the north-west and the other from the south-east directions converge and trigger the deep convection into the Mantaro valley. These moisture fluxes are generated by the intrusion of the sea-breeze from the Pacific ocean along the west of the Andes coupling with upper and middle westerly winds and by the thermally induced moisture fluxes coming from the South American low level jet at the east side of the Andes. At the local scale, there is a low-level conditional instability in the previous hours as well as during the occurrence of the TSs above the Huancayo observatory. In addition, the simulation results indicated the possibility of generation of inertial gravity waves in the Amazon basin, associated with geostrophic adjustment which transports energy and moisture into the central Andes plateau and consequently intensifies the thunderstorms above the Mantaro valley.es_ES
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dc.identifier.citationFlores, J. L., Alvarez, A., Kumar, S., Martínez., D., Villalobos, E., & Silva, Y. (2019). Analysis of Possible Triggering Mechanisms of Severe Thunderstorms in the Tropical Central Andes of Peru, Mantaro Valley.==$Atmosphere, 10$==(6), 301. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10060301es_ES
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10060301es_ES
dc.identifier.govdocindex-oti2018
dc.identifier.journalAtmospherees_ES
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/4636
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherMDPIes_ES
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:2073-4433
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/es_ES
dc.subjectThunderstormses_ES
dc.subjectHailstormses_ES
dc.subjectSea-breeze circulationses_ES
dc.subjectCentral andeses_ES
dc.subjectInertia gravity waveses_ES
dc.subjectModel simulationses_ES
dc.subjectLAMARes_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.00es_ES
dc.subject.ocdehttp://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.09es_ES
dc.titleAnalysis of possible triggering mechanisms of severe thunderstorms in the Tropical Central Andes of Peru, Mantaro Valleyes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES

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