DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS ON THE DYNAMICS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE(CAT)

摘要

Clear air turbulence(CAT),a meso-or microscale(subgrid scale)phenomenon occurring insynoptic scale flow field at high altitude,is very difficult to be observed by the conventional obser-vation network.Thus it is necessary to approach an index to predict CAT.But at first,the struc-ture characteristics of CAT should be preanalyzed.In this paper,based on the theoretical and diag-nostic analysis of a case,features for wind profile,energy budget and dynamic mechanism of thiscase were presented.Furthermore,an objective and quantitative index for CAT forecast was giv-en.The verification for its efficiency was done with both real-time observation data and productsfrom a numerical model.The results are very encouraging.