Abstract: An automated system has collected meteorological data hourly in the San Francisco Bay Area since October 1995. Data from sites operated by the National Weather Service, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air ...

Abstract: A two-layer frontal model is adapted to investigate the stability of fronts in the presence of potential vorticity (PV) anomalies corresponding to cross-front shear of the mean alongfront flow. Introducing shear modifies ...

Abstract: The existence, scale, and growth rates of subsynoptic-scale warm-core circulations are investigated with a simple parameterization for latent heat release in a nonconvective basic state using a linear two-layer shallow-water ...

Abstract: The stability of baroclinic flows with horizontal shear over sloping topography is analyzed with special emphasis on the structure and energetics of the unstable perturbatiorts. The study is conducted by using a linearized ...

Abstract: A two-layer, shallow-water frontal model on an f-plane is used to study the nonlinear evolution of frontal waves. The fluid is confined to a periodic channel with parallel vertical walls. It is found that, at an advanced ...

Abstract: The energy analysis of the two-layer frontal model of Kotchin (1932) and Orlanski (1968) is reformulated. The new formulation is based on separating the contributions to the eddy kinetic energy of the unstable waves by the ...