OA8
Typhoons and Mesoscale Weather

Main Organiser
Prof. Jong-Jin Baik
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea
jjbaik@snu.ac.kr

Co-Organiser(s)
Prof. Ben Jou
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
jou@webmail.as.ntu.edu.tw

Prof. Kazuhisa Tsuboki
Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Japan
tsuboki@rain.hyarc.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Prof. Fang-Ching Chien
Department of Earth Sciences, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
jfj@cc.ntnu.edu.tw

Brief Description
There are various fascinating mesoscale weather phenomena occurred in the Earth’s atmosphere, including typhoons, thunderstorms, and mesoscale convective systems (MCS). Due to strong interactions among dynamical forcing, thermodynamic state, and cloud microphysical processes, heavy rainfalls and strong winds often accompany with these phenomena, which often cause flooding and tremendous damages to properties and loss of life. In order to better understand the nature of these severe weather phenomena and more accurately predict them, we need to have in-depth understandings of their dynamics, thermodynamics, and cloud microphysics and their interactions with larger-scale flows. We anticipate a session that will contain the following topics: 1) typhoons, 2) severe local storms (e.g., multicell storms, supercell storms, downslope windstorms), 3) MCS and rainbands embedded within Mei-yu/Changma/Baiu fronts, 4) topographic influences on mesoscale weather systems, 5) local circulations such as sea/land breezes, mountain/valley winds, and urban circulations, 6) scalar transport in association with mesoscale circulations, and 7) other mesocale phenomena.