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Urban Heat Island and Weather Modification in St. Louis: Insights from the METROMEX Project

Explore the inadvertent weather changes caused by urbanization in St. Louis through the METROMEX project's research, revealing increased rainfall, convective initiation, and other phenomena.

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Urban Heat Island and Weather Modification in St. Louis: Insights from the METROMEX Project

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  1. Inadvertent Weather Modification The Urban Heat Island The METROMEX project St. Louis, MO http://www.arrakeen.ch/usaaug98/110%20%20St.Louis.JPG

  2. The Urban Heat Island • Produced by the combined effects of • Heat Capacity • Albedo • Heat Generation • Radiative Heating and Cooling Rates • Surface Roughness • Is this really weather modification?!

  3. METROMEX • Metropolitan Meteorological Experiment • Studied the areas around St. Louis in the summers of 1971-1975 • Goals: • Identify effects of urbanization on atmospheric behavior (i.e. precipitation and severe weather • Identify physical process through which observed effects are produced • Identify the factors of urbanization which cause these effects

  4. From Changnon, et al., 1971

  5. From Changnon, et al., 1971

  6. From Changnon, et al., 1971

  7. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  8. 1. For cells originating in the St. Louis urban area, rainfall volume average was 216% greater than control sample. 2. For cells originating in the Alton-Wood River urban area, rainfall average was 289% greater than contral sample. 3. Convective initiation zones was more likely to found in the industrial areas From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  9. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  10. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  11. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  12. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  13. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  14. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  15. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  16. From Project METROMEX, 1974 (BAMS)

  17. Summary • Large Industrial/Urban areas favor • Higher temperatures • Increased rainfall downwind • Increased hailfall downwind • Differing microphysical precipitation process downwind • Higher convective cloud bases due to increased boundary layer height

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