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A Case Study on the Development of an Elevated Subsidence Inversion Over a Surface Low Pressure System

  • Kim, Kyung-Eak (Department of Astronomy and Atmospheric Sciences, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Ko, Hye-Young (National Institute of Meteorological Research) ;
  • Heo, Bok-Haeng (Korea Meteorological Administration, Meteorological Advancement Council) ;
  • Ha, Kyung-Ja (Division of Earth Environmental System, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2010.04.30
  • Accepted : 2010.07.24
  • Published : 2010.09.30
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Abstract

This study presents the development of an elevated subsidence inversion over a surface low pressure system, which was formed along the Changma front or Meiu-Baiu front. The results of our analysis strongly suggest that the inversion is dissimilar to those formed in anticyclonic situations but is instead similar to the onion-shaped sounding found in wake low. The present analysis indicates that the observed elevated inversion resulted from the intrusion of stratospheric air associated with tropopause folding.

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