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WIND PROFILER FOR MONITORING OF MEIYU PRECIPITATIONIN THE DOWNSTREAM OF YANGTZE RIVERK.Krishna Reddy 1 , Biao Geng 1 , Hiroyuki Yamada 1 and Hiroshi Uyeda 1,21Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, 3173-25 Showa-machiKanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan2 Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University, Furocho, Chikusaku, Nagoya 464-8601,Japan1. IntroductionIn the Yangtze River Valley, the rain period from mid-June to mid-July is widelyknown as Meiyu (or Baiu in Japan, Changma in Korea) or Plum rain (Akiyama, 1989). Theseheavy rainfall systems play a major role not only in the energy and water cycle of the Asianmonsoon regions, but also causes flood disasters in the East Asia region. Elucidating thebehavior of the systems is important for understanding and predicting regional climatechanges, as well as global climate changes (Ninomiya, 2000). For the first time loweratmospheric wind pro<strong>file</strong>r (LAWP) <strong>with</strong> radio acoustic sounding system (RASS) was used tostudy the three-dimensional wind field associated <strong>with</strong> mesoscale precipitating cloudsystems. In particular, LAWP can directly measure the vertical wind component <strong>with</strong>in aconvective environment. The objective of this paper is to investigate coherent structures inthe boundary layer and interaction between the boundary layer and clouds observed duringMeiyu seasons.2. Experimental location and data collectionA joint field experiment by the Frontier observational Research System for GlobalChange, Japan and Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), China on heavyrainfalls in the downstream of the Yangtze River was conducted during 2001 and 2002.Yangtze RiverDoppler RadarAWSTaihu LakeLAWP AntennaRASS shield322Figure.1 (a) Map showing the topography around experimental site and (b) Lower atmospheric wind pro<strong>file</strong>r<strong>with</strong> radio acoustic sounding system, X-band Doppler radar and automatic weather station at Dongshan, ChinaTo examine the detailed three-dimensional structure of the mesoscale convectivesystems (MCS) in the downstream of the Yangtze River [Fig.1 (a)] an observational networkof meteorological instruments were deployed. Three X-band Doppler radars, a bistatic radar

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