Abstract: The wind fields associated with cloud clusters observed during the Global Atmospheric Research Program's Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) are investigated. A compositing procedure is devised to isolate the cluster ...

Abstract: A large-amplitude asymmetric vorticity couplet has been observed in the upper troposphere near a lame cloud cluster in GATE (GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment) on 5 September 1974. The couplet consists of a cyclonic center ...

Abstract: The heat and moisture budgets associated with five large nonsquall cloud clusters observed during Phase 3 of the Global Atmospheric Research Program's Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) are investigated. The input data ...

Abstract: On 9 June 1988 a mesoscale (?200-km diameter) convectively generated vortex (MCV) passed through the Colorado wind-profiling network. The generating convective system, which was too small to meet Maddox?s mesoscale convective ...

Abstract: Objectively analyzed upper-air winds over the intertropical convergence zone of the eastern tropical Atlantic are separated into components representing the mean flow, westward moving synoptic-scale waves and cloud-cluster-scale ...

Abstract: A physical and mathematical framework for the mutually consistent parameterization of the effects of cumulus convection on the large-scale momentum and vorticity fields is proposed. The key to achieving consistency is the ...

Abstract: Case studies of heavy snowstorms at Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, indicate that they occur under different meteorological conditions. The authors examine the hypothesis that there are in fact fundamental differences ...

Abstract: Previous studies of the low-level jet (LLJ) over the central Great Plains of the United States have been unable to determine the role that mesoscale and smaller circulations play in the transport of moisture. To address ...