Vertically-integrated tropospheric moisture, energy and their fluxes over Bangladesh during landfall of tropical cyclones

The changes in the vertically-integrated tropospheric moisture. energy and their fluxes over Bangladesh have been studied during the landfall of three major cyclones at Bangladesh coast in the recent past. It has been found that the vertically- integrated tropospheric moisture, dry static energy, latent energy and total energy over the country have a tendency to decrease at the formation stages of the cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and then the same shows significant increase as the cyclones move northwards for ultimate landfall. The integrated zonal and meridional fluxes of moisture, dry static energy, latent energy and total energy exhibit significant changes both in magnitudes and signs during the northward movement of the cyclones.

The Impact of Atmospheric Rossby Waves and Cyclones On The Arctic Sea Ice Variability

The Arctic sea-ice extent has strongly declined over recent decades. A large inter-annual variability is superimposed on this negative trend. Previous studies have emphasised a significant warming effect associated with latent energy transport into the Arctic region, in particular due to an enhanced greenhouse effect associated with the convergence of the humidity transport over the Arctic. The atmospheric energy transport into the Arctic is mostly accomplished by waves such as Rossby waves and cyclones. Here we present a systematic study of the effect on Arctic sea ice of these atmospheric wave types. Through a regression analysis we investigate the coupling between transport anomalies of both latent and dry-static energy and sea-ice anomalies. From the state-of-the-art ERA5 reanalysis product the latent and dry-static transport over the Arctic boundary (70 ºN) is calculated. The transport is then split into transport by planetary and synoptic-scale waves using a Fourier decomposition. The results show that latent energy transport as compared to that of dry-static shows a much stronger potential to decrease sea ice concentration. However, taking into account that the variability of dry-static transport is of an order of magnitude larger than latent, the actual impact on the sea ice appears similar for the two components. In addition, the energy transport by planetary waves causes a strong decline of the sea ice concentration whereas the transport by synoptic-scale waves shows only little effect on the sea ice. The study emphasises the importance of the large-scale waves on the sea ice variability.

The Climatological Rise in Winter Temperature- and Dewpoint-Based Thaw Events and Their Impact on Snow Depth on Mount Washington, New Hampshire

We analyze how winter thaw events (TE; T>0°C) are changing on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire using three metrics: the number of TE, number of thaw hours, and number of thaw degree-hours for temperature and dewpoint for winters from 1935-36 to 2019-20. The impact of temperature-only-TE and dewpoint-TE on snow depth are compared to quantify the different impacts of sensible-only and sensible-and-latent heating, respectively. Results reveal that temperature- and dewpoint-TE for all metrics increased at a statistically significant rate (p<0.05) over the full time periods studied for temperature (1935-1936 to 2019-2020) and dewpoint (1939-1940 to 2019-2020). Notably around 2000-2001, the positive trends increased for most variables, including dewpoint thaw degree-hours that increased by 82.11 degree-hours decade-1 during 2000-2020 – about five times faster than the 1939-2020 rate of 17.70 degree-hours decade-1. Furthermore, a clear upward shift occurred around 1990 in the lowest winter values of thaw hours and thaw degree-hours – winters now have a higher baseline amount of thaw than before 1990. Snow depth loss during dewpoint-TE (0.36 cm hr-1) occurred more than twice as fast as temperature-only-TE (0.14 cm hr-1). With winters projected to warm throughout the 21st century in the Northeastern US, it is expected that the trends in winter thaw events, and the sensible and latent energy they bring, will continue to rise and lead to more frequent winter flooding, fewer days of good quality snow for winter recreation, and changes in ecosystem function.

Research on Energy Dissipation Laws of Coal Crushing under the Impact Loads

Dynamic crushing characteristics of coals are closely related with energy absorption and release of coals under certain strain rate. Hence, it is necessary to investigate energy dissipation laws of coal crushing under the impact loads with different strain rates. Based on the dynamic and static mechanical tests, crushing energy, total absorption energy, total releasable elastic latent energy, and relations between fractal feature of fragments, mean particle diameter and energy during crushing behaviors of outburst coal and nonoutburst coal were investigated. According to research results, crushing energy, total absorption energy, and releasable elastic latent energy of outburst coal and nonoutburst coal are related with strain rate, and they present exponential growths with the increase of the strain rate. However, the energy dissipation rate (ratio of crushing energy and incident energy) was basically constant at about 10%∼20%, that is, energy dissipation rate is a variable unrelated with strain rate. There is a good logarithmic relationship between the dynamic compressive strength of coals and the absorption energy density and elastic latent energy density, and dynamic comprehensive strength of coals has important impacts on energy absorption. The fractal features of coal fragments were obvious under dynamic impacts. The higher fractal dimension of fragment and the smaller mean particle diameter of experimental fragments bring the greater energy needed.

Impact of latent and dry-static atmospheric energy transport on the Arctic sea ice variability

&lt;p&gt;Superimposed on a strong observed decline in Arctic sea ice extent there is large inter-annual variability. Recent research indicates that atmospheric temperature fluctuations are the main drivers for this variability. They can result both from local ocean heat release and from poleward atmospheric energy transport. Previous studies have emphasised a significant warming effect associated with latent energy transport into the Arctic region. In particular this is due to enhanced greenhouse effect associated with the convergence of the humidity transport over the Arctic. While previously some sea ice minima events have been linked to anomalous moist air convergence, a systematic study of this linkage between energy transport and sea ice variability was missing. Through a regression analysis we here investigate the coupling between transport anomalies of both latent and dry-static energy and sea ice anomalies. From the state-of-the-art ERA5 reanalysis product the latent and dry-static transport over the Arctic boundary (70&amp;#176;N) is calculated. The transport is then split into transport by planetary and synoptic-scale waves using a Fourier decomposition. Lagged regression analysis of sea ice concentration anomalies on the transport anomalies reveal the statistical linkage between the occurrence of sea ice anomalies after transport events. The results show that latent energy transport as compared to that of dry-static energy induces a much stronger decrease in sea ice concentration. One day after maximum of the latent transport event by planetary waves, sea-ice concentration shows a significant decrease lasting up to at least 45 days. In addition, the energy transport by planetary waves shows a greater effect on the sea ice concentration than transport by synoptic-scale waves. Hence, this study emphasizes the important impact of latent energy transport by planetary waves on the sea ice variability.&lt;/p&gt;