Abstract: he theoretical minimum eyewall pressure of tropical cyclones can be computed from convective available potential energy (CAPE) if the buoyancy in the CAPE is allowed to feed back on the surface pressure via hydrostatic ...

Abstract: Numerical simulation has failed to answer some fundamental questions about atmospheric frontogenesis because of the artificial minimum resolved scale in grid point and spectral models alike. To alleviate this handicap and ...

Abstract: Some fundamental properties of nongeostrophic baroclinic waves are examined by solving the equations of motion linearized about Eady's basic state at the next order of balance beyond quasi-geostrophic (QG) theory. The study ...

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Abstract: The ?high drag? state of stratified flow over isolated terrain is still an impediment to theoretical and experimental estimation of topographic wave drag and mean-flow modification. Linear theory misses the transition to ...

Abstract: This paper investigates the impacts of horizontal resolution on the statistical behavior of convection. An idealized radiative?convective equilibrium is simulated for model resolutions ranging between 2 and 50 km. The ...

Abstract: Under the assumption of weak background rotational and wind shear effects, an attractive computational upper boundary condition capable of transmitting gravity waves is generalized for use in a variety of f-plane models. ...

Abstract: Numerical solutions presented in a companion paper show that two-dimensional mesoscale terrain becomes a much stronger barrier to a continuously stratified flow when the flow contains warm advection. Here it is shown that ...

Abstract: The shallow atmospheric fronts that develop in the early winter along the east coast of North America have been attributed, in various modeling and observational studies, to the land?sea contrasts in both surface heating ...