Wet tongue - Shitsuzu

Japanese: 湿舌 - しつぜつ
Wet tongue - Shitsuzu

A tongue-like area on a weather chart where moist air extends in a certain direction. Usually refers to iso-height or iso-baric surfaces. A moist tongue appears as a tongue-like shape when iso-lines are drawn for physical quantities that indicate the amount of water vapor or moistness in the atmosphere, such as mixing ratio, specific humidity, dew point temperature, equivalent potential temperature, or the difference between air temperature and dew point. When a moist tongue is detected on an 850- or 700-hctopascal weather chart and is accompanied by a low-level jet stream flowing in that direction, torrential rain is likely to fall in the vicinity. Note that a dry tongue-like area is sometimes called a dry tongue, as opposed to a wet tongue.

[Atsushi Kurashima]

[References] | Jet stream | Heavy rain | Atmosphere | Weather map

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

天気図のある面で湿った大気が、ある方向に舌状に伸びている部分。通常、等高度面または等圧面についていう。湿舌は、混合比、比湿、露点温度、相当温位、気温と露点の差など、大気中の水蒸気量または湿潤状態を示す物理量の等値線を引くと、それが舌状となって現れる。850ヘクトパスカル、700ヘクトパスカル面天気図上で湿舌が検出され、その方向に流れる下層ジェット気流を伴うときは、その近傍で集中豪雨が降りやすい。なお、乾燥した舌状の部分を、湿舌に対して乾舌ということがある。

[倉嶋 厚]

[参照項目] | ジェット気流 | 集中豪雨 | 大気 | 天気図

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