Abstract: Ate balanced flow structure of various classic synopitc-scale disturbances is reviewed using the invertibility principle for isentropic potential vorticity (IPV) distributions. Complete solutions are shown for cold and ...

Abstract: The stability of the steady two-dimensional horizontal shear front to geostrophic disturbances in the along-front direction is examined within the framework of semi-geostrophic theory. The basic state corresponds to the ...

Abstract: A methodology suitable for assessing the stability of any time-dependent basic state is presented. The equivalent of the normal modes for steady basic states are the eigenvectors of the resolvent matrix; this matrix ...

Abstract: The concept of local extended exergy is here applied to an idealized, dry, and reversible-adiabatic cyclone development. The extended exergy as well as the kinetic energy are decomposed into a mean part, defined by a zonal ...

Abstract: A new method is described to interpret satellite water vapor (WV) imagery in dynamical terms using potential vorticity (PV) concepts. The method involves the identification of mismatches between the WV imagery and a numerical ...

Abstract: Raymond's (1975) wave-CISK model is applied to several tropical convective storms observed in Venezuela, the eastern Atlantic and West Africa to predict their propagation velocity. Similar calculations are carried out with ...

Abstract: A nonhydrostatic numerical model suitable for simulating mesoscale meteorological phenomena is developed and described here. The model is the first to exploit the nonhydrostatic equation system in σ (normalized pressure) ...

Abstract: It is shown here that there exists a regime of balanced frontogenesis that is forced almost entirely by the diabatic hating due to convection at a front. This theory is explored in the context of the two-dimensional ...

Abstract: In this paper, the role of horizontal deformation and the associated frontogenetic ageostrophic circulation in suppressing the development of nonlinear waves is assessed. Unless linear barotropic frontal waves can become ...

Abstract: It has been shown that lower tropospheric potential vorticity zones formed during moist deformation frontogenesis will support growing waves if at some time the frontogenesis ceases. In this paper, the ways in which these ...