Abstract: The quasi-geostrophic ?-equation including a convective parameterization is solved for an idealized frontal structure. A sloping cold front is specified by a simple analytical form for the Q-vector representing constant ...

Abstract: A useful set of equations with which to describe tropical cyclones in gradient wind balance involves using the total flow for advection. Transformation of these equations to angular momentum coordinates has advantages ...

Abstract: This paper attempts to explain the properties of a gravity wave event observed on Mallorca (Balearic islands) using an array of microbarographs. The waves propagated coherently for a relatively long distance with a speed ...

Abstract: A subsynoptic instability with dominant barotropic signature has been found to be a possible mechanism for the development of frontal waves. Linear semigeostrophic calculations of the growth rate of waves developing along ...

Abstract: Slantwise convective available potential energy (SCAPE) is a measure of the degree to which the atmosphere is unstable to conditional symmetric instability (CSI). It has, until now, been defined by parcel theory in which ...

Abstract: It is often observed that, despite the existence of near neutrality to slantwise convection, rainbands and snowbands can persist for long periods with narrow intense updrafts producing large quantities of precipitation in ...

Abstract: The parcel method of investigating the susceptibility of the atmosphere to particular disturbances involves postulating parcel displacements in an undisturbed environment and deducing the likelihood of such a displacement ...

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Abstract: This paper focuses on the coupling between an ex?tropical cyclone and two preexisting mesoscale tropopause depressions (TDs). The TDs approached the cyclone from widely separated sources after becoming cut off from different ...

Abstract: he Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) was a 10-yr, international research program organized by the World Meteorological Organization?s World Weather Research Program. THORPEX was motivated ...