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Limitations in Forecasting Middle Eastern Dust Storms with Weather Models

Jennie Bukowski

1*

and Sue van den Heever

1

1 Department of Atmospheric Science - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

• Connection between winds and PBL scheme • Compare each run to EPA observations and

determine which PBL scheme is most accurate

• Investigate whether cities can pollute through the PBL and into the more stable free troposphere

*Contact: jennie.bukowski@colostate.edu

Fig. 2) AQUA true color image: 04-Aug-2016 / 9:30 UTC

Motivations

Hypothesis

The amount of Middle Eastern dust lofted by storms is non-negligible relative to dust produced by large-scale flow

Model Setup

Methodology & Case Study

• Weather Research and Forecasting Model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem 3.9.1.1) combined with the

GOCART aerosol model

• Model: WRF-Chem 3.9.1.1 • Dust Scheme: GOCART

• 15-km grid spacing – typical of global dust forecast models (Figure 3)

• Start: 02-Aug-2016-00Z • End: 05-Aug-2016-00Z • Initialization: FNL-GDAS (0.25°x0.25°)

Simulation Results

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

• ONR-MURI Grant # N00014-16-1-2040

• Cooperative Institute for Atmospheric Research (CIRA) • CIRA – Programs of Research and Scholarly

Excellence Graduate Fellowship

• CSU Department of Atmospheric Science

• Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF)

Future Work

• Including storms in the simulation changes the spatial distribution and concentration of mineral dust (Fig. 4&5) • More dust is lofted with storms in coastal regions

• Inland regions respond more strongly and loft less dust as the large-scale flow is punctuated by storms

• Storms move dust from the surface to higher levels of the atmosphere

• Regional convective vs non-convective dust lofting & convective parameterizations (2018 AMS meeting)

• Regional climatology & haboob climatology – frequency of this type of meteorological setup and dust outbreak

• Sensitivity to sea surface temperatures • Dust scheme sensitivities

Fig. 3) Domain Topography

Fig. 4) Integrated dust for the control simulation (left) with storms, the no storm case (middle), and the percent difference (right)

Fig. 5) Vertical E-W cross section of dust concentrations at 26°N for the control simulation with storms (left), the no storm case (middle), and the percent difference between the two (right). Terrain is contoured in black.

Storms redistribute dust from the surface to higher levels of

the atmosphere compared to large-scale flow

Hypothesis: A significant amount of Middle Eastern dust is generated by storms and missed by current weather forecast models

Conclusion: Storms not explicitly resolved in forecast models can alter dust concentrations by more than 250%

Fig. 1) Dust storm in Sudan (credit: Obaya Salkini)

Dust Storms Cause:

Reduced Visibility and Agricultural Productivity Respiratory, Ocular, and

Circulatory Damage Spread of Disease

Ecosystem Fertilization

• Severe dust outbreaks are common in the Middle East • Large-scale dust sources can be captured in weather

forecasting models, but dust lofted by small-scale storms is not explicitly predicted

• To improve dust forecasts, should we put resources into resolving the large-scale processes or small-scale

storms?

How do storms influence dust concentrations?

• Employ a numerical weather forecasting model as a

laboratory to simulate a representative dust case study

Coastal Areas

High moisture content

More prone to generating storms Storms increase dust lofting

Inland Areas

Low moisture content Few storms

Storms decrease dust lofting by interrupting large-scale flow

The loss of dust inland

outweighs the addition of dust along the coasts. There is a strong interference between

the two Control Simulation Include Storms Perturbed Simulation No Storms Middle East: 04-Aug-2016

The amount of dust lofted scales superlinearly with surface wind speed

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