Long-lived mesoscale systems in a low-convective inhibition environment. Part II: Downshear propagation

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4319-4336

  Moncrieff, Mitchell W ^a   Lane, Todd P ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Convective clouds; Cumulus clouds; Density currents; Gravity waves; Mesoscale systems

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; KINETIC ENERGY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; STORMS; KINETICS;

CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE INHIBITION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS; CUMULUS CLOUD; DENSITY CURRENTS; DOWNDRAUGHTS; MESO SCALE; MESO-SCALE SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE CIRCULATION; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CONVECTIVE AVAILABLE POTENTIAL ENERGIES; HORIZONTAL PRESSURE; MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM;

KINETICS; KINETIC ENERGY;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; GRAVITY WAVE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; COLD POOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL ENERGY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; STRATIFORM CLOUD; UPDRAFT; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84950341923     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-15-0074.1     Document Type: Article

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