Abstract: The interaction of cumulus convection with larger scale systems is perhaps the most fundamental problem confronting meteorology today. The main obstacle to the clarification of this problem, however, is the lack of ...

Abstract: It is shown that the lognormal distribution describes the frequency distributions of height, horizontal size, and duration of cloud and radar echo populations in many different regions and convective situations. Two ...

Abstract: This paper (part II) is the second of two papers dealing with cumulus and broader scale flow interaction. The first (part I) is a companion paper that deals with this topic from broad-scale considerations. The second (part ...

Abstract: Results of a preliminary experiment are described in which a lidar-acoustic sounder system was used to measure plume and cloud width and depth. These parameters are shown to be lognormally distributed. By applying the ...