Observed and simulated trapped lee waves over Hengduan Mountains

Abstract ID: 3.5291
|Review Result Accepted as Talk
|Abstract registered Abstract is registered
| 2025-09-15 10:29 - 10:39 (+2min)
|Presentation Location SOWI – HS 2
Xue, H.
(1) Haile Xue, No 46 Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian, 100081 Beijing, CN
How to cite: Xue, H.: Observed and simulated trapped lee waves over Hengduan Mountains, International Mountain Conference 2025, Innsbruck, Sep 14 - 18 2025, #IMC25-3.5291, 2025.
Categories: Atmosphere, Multi-scale Modeling
Keywords: trapped lee wave, diurnal variation, observation, large-eddy simulation
Categories: Atmosphere, Multi-scale Modeling
Keywords: trapped lee wave, diurnal variation, observation, large-eddy simulation
Abstract

Due to the lack of high temporal and spatial resolution observations, the diurnal variation of the trapped lee wave (TLW) remains unknown. We employed the U-Net deep learning model to identify more than 3.5 thousand images with TLWs from over thirty thousand 500-m resolution Fengyun-4 satellite images with a 15-minute interval during the winter times from 2019 to 2023. Results shows that the wavelength is peaked at the late afternoon with high low-level winds and low atmospheric stability while the amplitude and propagating area are peaked at relative earlier afternoon with a most turbulent boundary in a day. The TLWs were further investigated in realistic and idealized large-eddy simulations by using WRF and ICON models, respectively. It is found that the effects of the stagnant and stable layer near the surface plays a wave-absorbing role in the nonlinear regime as in linear theories or simulations while the wave lengthening is largely related to the wind speed over the mountain.