Abstract: The effect of peripheral convection on the formation and intensification of tropical cyclones has been studied earlier with diagnostic models and with prognostic models that do not resolve convection. In this paper, a ...

Abstract: Velocity, buoyancy, and fractional area scales for moist convection in statistical equilibrium with large-scale forcing are derived using the constraints of global energy and entropy conservation, and subcloud-layer ...

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Abstract: There are few if any studies of statistics of deep convection occurring in high-latitude regions. In this study, the basic characteristics of convective precipitation and mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in Finland and ...

Abstract: he environments within which high-latitude intense and nonintense mesoscale convective systems (iMCSs and niMCSs) and smaller thunderstorm clusters (sub-MCSs) develop were studied using proximity soundings. MCS statistics ...

Abstract: The transformation of a mesoscale convective system into Hurricane Guillermo was captured by aircraft and Doppler wind data during the Tropical Experiment in Mexico. The early phase of the system evolves in a way very ...

Abstract: A cloud-resolving model is used to study the effects of a vertical temperature dipole on convective cloud development. Such dipole anomalies, with a warm-above-cool structure in the troposphere, are known to be forced by ...

Abstract: Long-term changes in the intensity of tropical cyclones are of considerable interest because of concern that greenhouse warming may increase storm damage. The potential intensity (PI) of tropical cyclones can be calculated ...