Heavy rains often lead to destructive floods, so discovering the prevailing pattern any climate system will allow for optimal analysis and forecasting. The present study was conducted to explain the synoptic of heavy rainfall leading to floods on 22 January 2020 in
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Heavy rains often lead to destructive floods, so discovering the prevailing pattern any climate system will allow for optimal analysis and forecasting. The present study was conducted to explain the synoptic of heavy rainfall leading to floods on 22 January 2020 in southern Sistan and Baluchestan province. Maps of different levels of the atmosphere were analyzed before a day the flood. In order to accomplish this, the required data have been extracted from NCEP/NCAR affiliated with the National Organization of the Oceanography of the United States. In the next step, the geo-potential height, vorticity, omega, wind direction, wind speed, specific humidity, Moisture Flux Convergence maps and Hoff Miller diagram was drawn and analyzed. The results showed that settle of trough vorticity in Saudi Arabia zone in the middle of the atmosphere along with the jet core at the upper levels provided favorable conditions for unstable weather and ascent in the southeastern region of Iran, so that the omega reached 0.45 Pascal per second. Special humidity maps also showed that at the same time as the settle of trough vorticity in region, considerable moisture flowed from the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf to southeastern Iran. Therefore, rapid conversion of atmospheric moisture to precipitation in trough vorticity has been the main cause of heavy rainfall on the above day.
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