Preliminary study of inversion temperature in the southeast Iberian Peninsular: the case of Hernán Perea Plateau
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Thermal inversion, geopotential, frost, datalogger, Sierra de Segura, SpainAbstract
The southeast interior of the Iberian Peninsula, and specifically the plateaus of the Sierra de Segura (Jaén), are characterized by extremely low minimum temperatures during the winter, with more than 140 frosts a year. The intense temperature inversions that characterize the sink fields of Hernán Perea (Monterilla sinkholes field, Santiago-Pontones) generate minimum temperatures around -20ºC. The differences between minimum surface temperatures (datalogger) and the existing one in the geopotential of each of the dataloggers, reach absolute values of -22.0ºC, forming intense temperature inversions. Through the analysis of data from a datalogger’s own network, the use of the high resolution meteorological model (HARMONIE-AROME) and images of the MODIS satellite, through the product MYD11A1, establishes a cartographic approximation to the minimum winter temperatures of the area of study, where, in addition, the main cold poles in different altitudinal ranges are identified. Finally, we conclude with the analysis of two types of cold air pools (cold air pools, CAPs), characteristics in the study area with significant temperature drops in a low altitudinal gradient.
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