Diurnal Variation of Surface Airflow and Rainfall Frequencies on the Island of Hawaii

Author:

Chen, Yi-Leng, Nash, Andrew

Title:

Diurnal Variation of Surface Airflow and Rainfall Frequencies on the Island of Hawaii

Periodical:

Monthly Weather Review

Year:

1994

Volume:

122

Pages:

34-56

Subject:

Rain and rainfall Hawaii Island Rain and rainfall research Hawaiian Rainband Project Precipitation Orographic airflow Solar radiation meteorology Heat conduction

Summary:

The high-resolution Portable Automated Mesonet data from the Hawaiian Rainband Project are used to record the circulation over the island of Hawaii for the first time which indicated that the surface airflow and rainfall occurrences over the island are strongly modulated by the diurnal heating cycle. Most areas over the island show daytime upslope and nighttime downslope airflow pattern. The maximum rainfall frequency is over the windward lowland west of Hilo at night.

Label:

Weather & Climate

URL:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1994)122%3C0034:DVOSAA%3E2.0.CO;2

Date:

January 1994

Collection:

Periodicals