DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN CONVECTIVE AND NON-CONVECTIVE WIND GUSTS
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Wind gust. Gust front. Thunderstorm. INMET. Severe weather.Abstract
The present study ivestigated in detail a serie of 184 wind gusts events originally discarded by Ferreira e Nascimento (2015), which presented a behavior not consistent with local convective activity by persist for several hours. This study aims to confirm or not the convective nature of these wind gusts. Using hourly data from automated weather stations maintained by Brazil National Weather Service (INMET), satellite imagery from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES 12 and 13), weather radars data and final analysis data from the National Centers for Environment Prediction (NCEP) Global Forecast System (GFS-FNL) the 184 intese wind gusts episodes was analysed, some recorded by weather stations located at high elevations and other in the coastal region of brazilian south. After a detailed analysis only 9 wind gusts events were confirmed as convective origin. For the weather stations located in high altitudes the most frequently forcing mechanism to explain intense wind gusts persisting for several hours was not convective activity, but the presence of a flow from north-northeast like a low-level jet (LLJ). In the coastal stations the most wind gusts originated from low pressure systems in synoptic scale located near the coast of southern Brazil, as extratropical cyclones.Downloads
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