Relationship between Amazon burning aerosols and rainfall over La Plata Basin

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1 Relationship between Amazon burning aerosols and rainfall over La Plata Basin Gláuber Camponogara Maria Assunção Faus da Silva Dias Gustavo G. Carrió CHUVA International Workshop 8-10 May 2013 Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 1 / 20

2 Introduction Mesoscale Convective Systems Mesoscale Convective Systems Climatological distribution Silva Dias et al. (2009) Gla uber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 2 / 20

3 Introduction Biomass burning Biomass burning Martin et al. (2006) Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 3 / 20

4 Introduction Biomass burning Freitas et al. (2005) Aerosols from biomass burning in Amazon and Central Brazil are advected via LLJ to La Plata Basin in the dry season. Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 4 / 20

5 Objective Objective Investigate the relationship between the aerosols, that come from biomass burning of Amazon region and central of Brazil, and rainfall over the La Plata Basin for September, October, November and December. Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 5 / 20

6 Data Data Precipitation (mm/h) from TRMM-3B42 between 1999 and 2012 (0.25 x0.25-3h); Daily AOD (440 nm) from AERONET; Alta Floresta ( ); Ji Paraná ( ); Rio Branco ( ); Santa Cruz ( ); Campo Grande ( ); Cuiabá - Miranda ( ). Reanalyses 2 from NCEP/DOE ( ). Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 6 / 20

7 Methodology Filtering Keep cases with north wind over the blue rectangle; Keep cases with minimum rainfall over red rectangle (avoid cleaning up the airmass during the path); Mean wind (m/s) 10 S 9 m/s 15 S Averaged rainfall rate (mm/day) Latitude 20 S 25 S 30 S 35 S 70 W 65 W 60 W 55 W 50 W 45 W Longitude Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 7 / 20

8 Results Alta Floresta Ji Paraná Rio Branco 25 Averaged rainfall rate (mm/day) Santa Cruz Campo Grande Cuaibá bin width = AOD Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 8 / 20

9 Results Averaged rainfall rate (mm/day) Alta Floresta Ji Paraná Rio Branco Rainfall fraction (%) Santa Cruz Campo Grande Cuiabá AOD Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 9 / 20

10 Results Rainfall fraction = % of rainy grid points Rainfall fraction = number of rainy grid points 100% all grid points bin width = 20 bin width = 0.5 Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 10 / 20

11 Results Averaged rainfall rate (mm/day) Alta Floresta Ji Paraná Rio Branco Rainfall fraction (%) Santa Cruz Campo Grande Cuiabá AOD Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 11 / 20

12 Results Averaged rainfall rate (mm/day) Alta Floresta Ji Paraná Rio Branco ω (Pa s) 0.4 Santa Cruz Campo Grande Cuiabá AOD Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 12 / 20

13 Results ω = average over blue rectangle at 500 hpa bin width = 1 bin width = 0.5 Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 13 / 20

14 Results Averaged rainfall rate (mm/day) Alta Floresta Ji Paraná Rio Branco ω (Pa s) 0.4 Santa Cruz Campo Grande Cuiabá AOD Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 14 / 20

15 Results Combined EOF Filtered data (north wind); Only cases with rainfall fraction > 40%. AOD 1 ARR 1 ω 1 RH 1 AOD 2 ARR 2 ω 2 RH AOD n ARR n ω n RH n RH = mean relative humidity between 700 and 500 hpa averaged over the blue rectangle Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 15 / 20

16 Results Combined EOF Variance explained R1 2 (%) R2 2 (%) R1 2 + R2 2 Alta Floresta Ji Paraná Rio Branco Santa Cruz Campo Grande Cuiabá Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 16 / 20

17 Results Combined EOF Perturbation values around average Alta Floresta AOD ARR ω RH e e Ji Paraná AOD ARR ω RH e e Rio Branco AOD ARR ω RH e e Santa Cruz AOD ARR ω RH e e Campo Grande AOD ARR ω RH e e Cuiabá AOD ARR ω RH e e Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 17 / 20

18 Conclusions Conclusions Bin analyses Aerosols effect is detected for rainfall fraction > 40%; For weak ω, large AOD loads tend to suppress rainfall. Combined EOF 1st EOF explains 40% of variance dynamic forcing; 2nd EOF explains 30% of variance aerosol forcing suppress rainfall. Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 18 / 20

19 Conclusions What next? Use numerical modeling to understand the effect of advected aerosol on the rainfall of MCS over La Plata Basin. Radiative effect; Microphysic effect. Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 19 / 20

20 Conclusions Thank you! Gláuber Camponogara (IAG/USP) Interaction aerosols/rainfall CHUVA project 20 / 20

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