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Instability and its relation to precipitation over the Eastern Iberian Peninsula
1Departamento de Física de la Tierra II, Fac. C.C. Físicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain
2Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain
Abstract. Synoptic situations producing rainfall at four rawinsonde observatories at eastern Spain are classified as stratiform or convective depending on dynamic and thermodynamic instability indices. Two daily radiosonde and daily-accumulated precipitation data from four observatories in Eastern Spain are used: Madrid-Barajas (MB), Murcia (MU), Palma de Mallorca (PA) and Zaragoza (ZA). We calculated two thermodynamic instability indices from radiosonde data: CAPE and LI. Likewise, from ERA40 reanalysis data we have calculated the Q vector divergence over the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands, as a parameter describing dynamical instability. Synoptic situations producing rainfall were classified as convective or stratiform, satisfying a criterion based on the values of dynamic and thermodynamic indices at each observatory. It is observed that the number of days with stratiform precipitation related to the total number of precipitation days follows a consistent annual pattern.
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Citation: Iturrioz, I., Hernández, E., Ribera, P., and Queralt, S.: Instability and its relation to precipitation over the Eastern Iberian Peninsula, Adv. Geosci., 10, 45-50, 2007. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
