《MarineAtmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics over the South China Sea During the Passage of Strong Typhoon Hagupit》.pdfVIP

420 JOURNAL OF METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH VOL.28 Marine-Atmospheric Boundary Layer Characteristics over the South China Sea During the Passage of Strong Typhoon Hagupit CHENG Xueling1 ( ), WU Lin1 (  ), SONG Lili2 ( ), WANG Binglan2 (  ), and ZENG Qingcun3 ∗ ( ) 1 State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physics and Atmospheric Chemistry, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029 2 Public Weather Service Center, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081 3 Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029 (Received December 10, 2013; in final form January 8, 2014) ABSTRACT The structures and characteristics of the marine-atmospheric boundary layer over the South China Sea during the passage of strong Typhoon Hagupit are analyzed in detail in this paper. The typhoon was generated in the western Pacific Ocean, and it passed across the South China Sea, finally landfalling in the west of Guangdong Province. The shortest distance between the typhoon center and the observation station on Zhizi Island (10 m in height) is 8.5 km. The observation data capture the whole of processes that occurred in the regions of the typhoon eye, two squall regions of the eye wall, and weak wind regions, before and after the typhoon’s passage. The results show that: (a) during the strong wind (average velocity u¯ 10 m s−1) period, in the atmospheric boundary layer belo