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Dynamics of East Atlantic seed vortex populations in global km-scale models

Ben Maybee , Francesca Morris , Juliane Schwendike , Ashar Aslam , Calum Scullion , Richard W. Jones , Dasha Shchepanovska , Kevin I Hodges
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Highest-resolution explicit convection models produce fewer Atlantic hurricanes because seed vortices fail to amplify after crossing West Africa.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper examines seed vortex populations originating from Africa in three one-year global km-scale atmosphere simulations. It shows that although the number of vortices over land is similar across runs, the highest-resolution version with explicit convection yields fewer and weaker hurricanes. This stems from a failure to strengthen vortices as they move offshore, caused by an inability to sustain strong top-heavy mass flux profiles that would otherwise intensify low-level circulation through vortex stretching. Differences in how convection organizes into mesoscale systems explain the profile variations, with the explicit model showing weaker stratiform components and a position mismatch between vortices and storms.

Core claim

Despite comparable continental vortex populations, the highest-resolution simulation with explicit convection produces fewer, weaker hurricanes than coarser, parameterized counterparts due to a failure to amplify vortices crossing the West African coastline. The primary cause is the inability to maintain strong top-heavy mass flux profiles experienced by seeds, which normally drive low-level circulation development through vortex stretching. Using MCS tracks, systematic differences in convective organization between the simulations explain the mass flux differences and thus the vortex evolution, with deficiencies in the explicit run arising from underestimation of MCS stratiform components.

What carries the argument

Top-heavy mass flux profiles maintained by seed vortices, which drive low-level circulation intensification via vortex stretching.

If this is right

  • Sustaining strong top-heavy mass flux profiles is required for seed vortices to intensify into tropical cyclones after leaving the African coast.
  • Convective organization within mesoscale systems determines the mass flux profiles that influence downstream vortex evolution.
  • Underestimation of stratiform components in explicit convection schemes reduces vortex stretching and subsequent hurricane development.
  • A latitudinal offset between offshore seed vortices and mesoscale convective system tracks disrupts the mass flux needed for amplification.
  • Resolution and convection scheme choices directly affect the representation of East Atlantic seed population dynamics leading to genesis.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Adjusting explicit convection schemes to better capture stratiform rainfall could increase simulated hurricane numbers without changing overall resolution.
  • The same mass flux mechanism may limit seed vortex success in other tropical basins that rely on continental convective sources.
  • Targeted diagnostics of vertical mass flux during the coastal crossing phase could isolate why explicit runs diverge from parameterized ones.

Load-bearing premise

Objective tracking algorithms correctly and consistently identify seed vortices, easterly waves, tropical cyclones, and mesoscale convective systems across model resolutions and convection schemes.

What would settle it

A sensitivity test in the explicit convection simulation that increases the stratiform rainfall fraction within mesoscale convective systems to observed levels, followed by checking whether seed vortex amplification rates and final hurricane counts rise to match the parameterized runs.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.26875 by Ashar Aslam, Ben Maybee, Calum Scullion, Dasha Shchepanovska, Francesca Morris, Juliane Schwendike, Kevin I Hodges, Richard W. Jones.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: JJASO WAM mean state. Panels (a—d) show 700–550 hPa zonal winds u (shading) and rainfall (contours) for each MetUM simulation, and combined ERA5 winds (1979—2024) and IMERGv7 rainfall (2001–2024), respectively. MetUM mean taken for 2020 only. Repeated in panels (e—h) for total column water (TCW, shading) and 925 hPa equivalent potential tempera￾ture (θe, contours). Going from west to east, red boxes on ERA… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Total 2020 primary basin TC counts for simulations, reanalysis and observations. Counts for Category 1+ systems are shown by solid–colour nested bars (b) Combined Category 3+ TC counts in the NATL and ENP basins, and WNP and NI basins, respectively. Full tracks for all 2020 NATL basin vortices which develop TC status are then shown for (c) Param, (d) Co￾Morph, (e) Explicit and (f ) ERA5. Tracks with ge… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (a) JJASO zonal mean 925 hPa temperature (solid) and rainfall (dashed), with longi￾tudinal average taken over -15◦– 15◦E. Dashed black line shows 2001—2024 IMERGv7 mean. (b) Time series of daily mean AEJ strength, smoothed to a five day rolling mean; black dashed line now (and in all remaining panels) shows 2020 ERA5 values. (c) Repeated for AEJ latitude. (d) Time series of the cumulative count of East Atl… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Composite mean evolution for developer (DV, solid) and non–developer (NDV, dashed) view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: (a) Composite mean evolution of vertical profiles of Param vortex contour–area nor￾malised mass flux ( ˆρw, blue) and contour–area mean PV anomaly (red), for East Atlantic DVs (solid) and NDVs (dashed) which transition from land to ocean. Time coordinate T as in view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Full composite evolution of East Atlantic DV (solid) and NDV (dashed) vortex fields view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: (a) Composite mean evolution of vertical profiles of Param vortex mean air tempera￾ture (T, grey), relative humidity (RH, blue) and equivalent potential temperature (θe, purple), for DVs (solid) and NDVs (dashed) which transition from land to ocean. Means taken over vortex contour areas. Time coordinate T as in view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: (a) Mean normalised circulation tendency profiles taken over all Param seed vortices in the Land, Coastal and Ocean subdomains. Individual seed count given by nseed. Line shading is specified with respect to the circulation tendency equation in Eqn. 3, with dotted gold lines representing sum of RHS terms while omitting friction. Dashed pink lines show the mean stretch￾ing tendency for DVs only in each subd… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Fractional number distributions (LH column, shading) and mean 6–hourly view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: (a) Distributions of system area, lifetime, minimum Tb, maximum and mean rainfall, for Coastal subdomain MCSs. Distributions taken over all individual hourly snapshots for all measures except lifetime, with outlier values excluded. Whisker lengths are 1.5× the interquartile range. (b) JASO mean Coastal MCS min(Tb)–centred composites of mean 0.1◦ regridded 800 hPa mass flux (shading) and cold cloud occurre… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Schematics of key processes and simulation differences in seed vortex evolution de view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Africa is the primary source of cyclonic vortices over the tropical Atlantic. Over both land and sea, these vortices are entwined with deep convective activity, with the majority being African Easterly Wave troughs. Their convective interactions have downstream impacts, since the same vortices provide the seed population for Atlantic basin tropical cyclone (TC) genesis. Understanding the dynamics of East Atlantic seed populations, particularly the processes that distinguish vortices which undergo cyclogenesis, is crucial for understanding the formation of Atlantic hurricanes and model representations of their populations. Here we investigate these questions in three one-year, atmosphere-only global km-scale Met Office Unified Model simulations. We use objective tracking algorithms to independently identify seed vortices, easterly waves, TCs, and Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs), benchmarking against reanalysis and satellite-derived climatologies. Despite the simulations displaying comparable continental vortex populations, we show that the highest-resolution simulation with explicit convection produces fewer, weaker hurricanes than coarser, parameterised counterparts due to a failure to amplify vortices crossing the West African coastline. We identify a failure to maintain strong top-heavy mass flux profiles experienced by seeds as the primary cause, demonstrating profiles' roles in low-level circulation development through vortex stretching. Using MCS tracks, we show that systematic differences in convective organisation between the simulations can explain the differences in mass flux profiles, and thus vortex evolution. Deficiencies in the explicit simulation stem from underestimation of MCS stratiform components, a bias shared with other explicit convection models; and a latitudinal offset between offshore seed vortex and MCS trains.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript analyzes the dynamics of East Atlantic seed vortex populations in three one-year atmosphere-only global km-scale Met Office Unified Model simulations. Using objective tracking algorithms, it identifies seed vortices, easterly waves, tropical cyclones (TCs), and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), with benchmarking against reanalysis and satellite climatologies. The central claim is that comparable continental vortex populations exist across runs, but the highest-resolution explicit-convection simulation produces fewer and weaker hurricanes than parameterized counterparts because it fails to amplify vortices crossing the West African coastline, due to an inability to sustain strong top-heavy mass flux profiles; these profile differences are then linked to systematic variations in MCS organization (stratiform fraction and latitudinal alignment), with deficiencies traced to underestimation of stratiform components and a latitudinal offset between offshore seeds and MCS trains.

Significance. If the results hold, the work provides a mechanistic explanation for resolution- and convection-scheme-dependent biases in Atlantic TC populations, highlighting the role of mass flux profiles in vortex stretching and low-level circulation development. The objective tracking of multiple vortex types, direct comparison of explicit vs. parameterized convection at km scales, and benchmarking against external climatologies are strengths that support falsifiable claims about convective organization impacts. This has implications for improving high-resolution modeling of hurricane genesis from African seed populations.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3] §3 (tracking algorithms): The central attribution of TC differences to mass flux profile variations requires that the objective tracking returns physically equivalent objects (seeds, MCSs, TCs) across the 1–2 km explicit-convection run and the coarser parameterized runs. The manuscript provides no sensitivity tests to the fixed thresholds or criteria used for vortex and MCS detection, nor validation that detection biases do not systematically alter intensity, size, or lifetime at different resolutions. This is load-bearing because resolution-dependent mis-classification could confound the reported differences in seed amplification and mass flux rather than reflect true dynamical differences.
  2. [§5] §5 (mass flux and vortex evolution): The claim that failure to maintain top-heavy mass flux profiles explains the lack of amplification in the explicit run is presented without quantitative error bars, bootstrap uncertainties, or statistical significance tests on the profile differences or TC counts. With only one-year simulations and the rarity of genesis events, it is unclear whether the reported mass-flux and TC differences exceed internal variability, weakening the causal link to MCS organization.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 2] Figure 2: The panels comparing mass flux profiles across simulations would benefit from explicit error shading or ensemble spread to visually convey robustness.
  2. [§4] The abstract and §4 state that the explicit run underestimates stratiform components, but the quantitative definition of 'stratiform fraction' (e.g., area or rain-rate threshold) is not restated when comparing to other explicit-convection models; a brief reminder would aid readers.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their thorough review and valuable comments, which have helped us improve the clarity and robustness of our analysis. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions we will make to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (tracking algorithms): The central attribution of TC differences to mass flux profile variations requires that the objective tracking returns physically equivalent objects (seeds, MCSs, TCs) across the 1–2 km explicit-convection run and the coarser parameterized runs. The manuscript provides no sensitivity tests to the fixed thresholds or criteria used for vortex and MCS detection, nor validation that detection biases do not systematically alter intensity, size, or lifetime at different resolutions. This is load-bearing because resolution-dependent mis-classification could confound the reported differences in seed amplification and mass flux rather than reflect true dynamical differences.

    Authors: We recognize the critical need to verify that our objective tracking algorithms identify comparable physical features across simulations with different resolutions and convection parameterizations. The detection criteria for vortices, easterly waves, TCs, and MCSs were selected to align with established practices in the literature and to reproduce observed climatologies, as demonstrated in our benchmarking against reanalysis and satellite data. To strengthen this aspect, we will conduct sensitivity analyses by perturbing key thresholds (such as minimum vorticity, area, and lifetime criteria) within reasonable ranges and show that the primary results—comparable continental seed populations but divergent TC amplification—remain consistent. These tests will be documented in a revised methods section or supplementary material, thereby addressing potential concerns about resolution-dependent biases in object detection. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (mass flux and vortex evolution): The claim that failure to maintain top-heavy mass flux profiles explains the lack of amplification in the explicit run is presented without quantitative error bars, bootstrap uncertainties, or statistical significance tests on the profile differences or TC counts. With only one-year simulations and the rarity of genesis events, it is unclear whether the reported mass-flux and TC differences exceed internal variability, weakening the causal link to MCS organization.

    Authors: We agree that providing quantitative measures of uncertainty is essential for robust interpretation, particularly with the limited sample size inherent to one-year integrations and infrequent TC genesis events. In the revised version, we will incorporate bootstrap resampling techniques to estimate uncertainties on the composite mass flux profiles and TC frequency statistics. We will also perform significance testing (e.g., using permutation tests or t-tests where appropriate) to evaluate whether the differences between simulations are statistically significant. While extending the simulations to multiple years would further mitigate concerns about internal variability, the substantial computational resources required for global km-scale modeling make this impractical in the current study. Nevertheless, the consistency of our findings with independent observational benchmarks and the mechanistic links to MCS organization provide supporting evidence for the role of mass flux profiles in vortex evolution. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on independent model comparisons benchmarked externally

full rationale

The paper compares three independent atmosphere-only global km-scale simulations using objective tracking algorithms for seed vortices, easterly waves, TCs, and MCSs. These are benchmarked against reanalysis and satellite-derived climatologies to establish comparable continental vortex populations and differences in amplification, mass-flux profiles, and convective organisation. No load-bearing step reduces by construction to fitted parameters, self-definitions, or self-citation chains; the central claims are direct outputs from the model data with external validation points.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on standard atmospheric modeling assumptions and the accuracy of objective tracking algorithms; no free parameters are fitted to the target result, no new entities are postulated, and no ad-hoc axioms are introduced beyond domain-standard physics.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Objective tracking algorithms can reliably identify and distinguish seed vortices, easterly waves, TCs, and MCSs across different model resolutions
    Invoked when comparing populations and attributing differences in vortex evolution to convective organisation.
  • domain assumption Mass flux profiles diagnosed from the model output accurately reflect the dynamical processes governing low-level circulation development via vortex stretching
    Central to the mechanistic explanation linking convective organisation to vortex amplification.

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