@Article{DoloresCaetLópeCalh:2019:InSoMo,
author = "Dolores, Edgar and Caetano, Ernesto and L{\'o}pez-Bravo, Luis
Clemente and Calheiros, Alan James Peixoto",
affiliation = "{Free University Berlin} and {Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma
de M{\'e}xico (UNAM)} and {Universidad Nacional Aut{\'o}noma de
M{\'e}xico (UNAM)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
(INPE)}",
title = "Influence of soil moisture on mesoscale convective initiation in
central Mexico",
journal = "European Journal of Remote Sensing",
year = "2019",
volume = "52",
number = "1",
pages = "640--652",
month = "jan.",
keywords = "Convective initiation, soil moisture, remote sensing.",
abstract = "The presence of deep moist convection in a large part of Mexico is
a condition typical of summer; the effects of land surface
processes and mesoscale circulations are usually not included in
the diagnostic and forecasting of deep moist convection, mainly
because of the scale at which they occur. This study examines the
effect of the soil moisture fluxes on convective initiation in the
central region of Mexico during the summer periods of 2010 2014.
Other aspects considered are the function of the average flux of
the boundary layer in the transport of humidity towards the
initiation zone. Remote sensing satellite data used are the
cloud-top temperature, soil moisture, land surface temperature and
precipitation. The results show over the initiation zone an
increase in the soil moisture and a decrease in the land surface
temperature in the direction of the mean flux at low levels. The
soil moisture anomaly (SMA) presents a temporal variability being
May, the composite more similar to previous studies, initiation
zone drier and warmer than surroundings. The background low-level
winds have an important role in the displacement of convection
core and creating different features of SMA and land surface
temperature anomaly.",
doi = "10.1080/22797254.2019.1700397",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/22797254.2019.1700397",
issn = "2279-7254",
language = "en",
targetfile = "dolores_influence.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "28 mar. 2024"
}