Abstract: A variational method has been developed to assimilate VAS temperature and moisture gradient information into a mesoscale model. A series of experiments were conducted to test the sensitivity of both adiabatic and diabatic ...

Abstract: The geostrophic stream and potential functions of Sangster and the derived flat pressure field of Pielke and Cram are further compared. A simple numerical experiment with an idealized mountain-atmosphere system compares ...

Abstract: A methodology to analyze a flat surface geostrophic wind and pressure is presented which eliminates the arbitrariness of the standard reduction of surface pressure to mean sea level. The procedure utilizes a surface ...

Abstract: An observational and numerical study of the squall line that occurred on 17?18 June 1978 is presented. This squall line was initially triggered by the strong surface convergence along a cold front and stretched from Illinois ...

Abstract: A numerical study of the squall line that occurred on 17?18 June 1978 was described in Part I of this paper. The squall line was collocated with a surface front during its initial development (at 0000 UTC 18 June 1978), ...

Abstract: Conventional synoptic rawinsonde data do not have a fine enough temporal or spatial resolution to accurately resolve mesoscale features. Profiling networks are one potential source of these data although they provide only ...