Abstract: Significant spatial heterogeneities of daytime surface sensible heat flux are common over land within mesoscale domains. Thermally induced circulations, similar to the sea/lake breeze [termed nonclassical mesoscale ...

Abstract: The Martian daytime soil surface temperature is governed primarily by the net irradiance balance and surface soil heat flux. Thus the outbreak of a cold air mass generates increased sensible heat flux that is conducive to ...

Abstract: The sea surface temperature (SST), wind speed, and surface-layer thermal stability affect surface thermal fluxes that are conducive to deep convection. In the present study, numerical model sensitivity evaluations were ...

Abstract: A simple and efficient scheme for utilizing a virtual 3D mesoscale numerical model in 1D and 2D sensitivity studies is outlined. The scheme involves several straightforward adjustments in the model code that enable ...

Abstract: A boundary-layer numerical model was used to evaluate the impact of GCMs? predicted 2xCO2 climate on surface thermal fluxes over water bodies, in situations conducive to deep convection following short-range airmass ...

Abstract: Under strong warm advection, sensible and latent heat fluxes may provide larger energy for surface snowmelt than does net radiation flux. With these thermally stable conditions, the height of the first model level may be ...

Abstract: The thermal impact of differential cloud shading across a cold front is evaluated briefly through conceptual, scaling, and numerical-modeling approaches. It is suggested that in summer the shading may enhance the boundary-layer ...

Abstract: Satellite images that illustrate the clearing of cumulus clouds downwind from snow-covered areas are presented. The cloud clearing resembles that occasionally observed with lakes during warm advection, supporting the ...

Abstract: The exact solution of the nonhydrostatic pressure residual (total pressure perturbation minus hydrostatic pressure perturbation) in Defant's linear model is derived. The quasi-nonhydrostatic residual, introduced by Pielke, ...

Abstract: The effect of surface characteristics on the daytime change in the potential for development of deep convection resulting from surface flux of heat and moisture is evaluated by conceptual, scaling, and numerical modeling ...