Abstract: The fastest growing modes in Emanuel's recent model of inviscid precipitating convection in a saturated atmosphere with no shear have large horizontal wavenumbers, permitting a simple analytical analysis of their phase ...

Abstract: In Part I, an idealized model of nonprecipitating moist convection in a shallow conditionally unstable layer of viscous and diffusive air between two parallel plates was introduced, and the ?linear? instability of an exactly ...

Abstract: Using Albrecht's model, approximate analytical formulas are found for the dependence of the steady-State mean thermodynamic structure of a partly cloudy convective marine boundary layer on external parameters. Our goals ...

Abstract: Integral methods are used to show that in a simple model of nonprecipitating, moist convection, no small-amplitude propagating or oscillatory, two- or three-dimensional convective instabilities can grow from a quiescent ...

Abstract: A defining feature of moist convection is latent heating. A simple, mathematically tractable but thermody-namically reasonable Kuo-type model is developed to isolate some important effects of latent heating on the structure ...

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Abstract: The governing vorticity and divergence equations in the surface layer are derived and the roles of the different terms and feedback mechanisms are investigated in semigeostrophic and nongeostrophic cold-frontal systems. A ...

Abstract: The tropical tropopause layer (TTL), and in particular the cold point tropopause, has been previously suggested as a feature decoupled from convection. Using a cloud-resolving model, the authors demonstrate that convection, ...

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Abstract: It is well known that even in the presence of diabatic effects a conservation law exists for potential vorticity Q in the form ?(?Q)/?t + ?·J = 0, where J is a flux of potential vorticity substance. A new and extremely ...