Synoptic and dynamical analysis of the cyclonic occurrence of heavy rains during the cold period of western Iran

Cyclonic systems are generally unstable conditions messenger that result from the spread of significant disturbances that occur in atmospheric currents. In this study, daily rainfall data of 4 catchments and gridded data (ECMWF) with 6-hour time steps and spatial separation of 0.25 * 0.25 from 1979 to 2004 were used. using with the cluster analysis method 3 atmospheric patterns were extracted. where the center of the trough in 500 and 700 hPa Stacking on top of each other, the geopotential height is the minimum and the geopotential gradient will be the maximum and will lead to the occurrence of the most cyclogenesis, Which occurred in the first pattern these conditions and resulted in average heavy rainfall of 38.6 mm. In the second pattern, none of the conditions of stacking on top of each other and deeping of the trough, and this has led to the lowest average heavy rainfall of 32.7 mm. In the third pattern, the condition of matching of the two centers of the troughs is established, but they do not condition of deeping trough And have led to heavy rainfall of 36/1 mm which is less than the first pattern. Also, the most cyclogeneses location in the eastern Mediterranean to Iraq, heavy rains caused by cyclones are born in this region. The results also showed that most of the moisture comes from the Red Sea. the subtropical jet stream plays a role in strengthening and ascending, in the north of Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf.