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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 778
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) have a large influence on the weather over the central United States during the warm season by generating essential rainfall and severe weather. To gain insight into the predictability of these systems, the precursor environment of several hundred MCSs were thoroughly studied across the U.S. during the warm seasons of 1996-98.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 578
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
Recent observational studies of upper-tropospheric and lower-stratospheric winds atop mesoscale convective systems show the development of anticyclonic outflow....As the magnitude of the anticyclone increases, the inertial stability of the system is reduced, resulting in a decreased partitioning of the initial available potential energy to the balanced state of the system.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 336
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
A preliminary climatology of mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs), based on satellite data from two warm seasons, indicates that these systems frequently affect United States agricultural regions and it is hypothesized that MCCs produce a highly significant portion of the growing season precipitation over these areas.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 624
Pub. Date
1996.
Description
Animations of Next Generation Radar reflectivity images are used to analyze the evolution of convective and stratiform regions of 13 mesoscale convective systems.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 731
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
This study examines the sensitivity of horizontal heterogeneities of the soil moisture initialization (SMI) in the cloud-resolving grid of two real-data mesoscale convective system (MCS) simulations during their genesis phase.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 436
Pub. Date
1988.
Description
To study the physical processes associated with early-stage tropical cyclone development vs. non-development, composite and individual case analyses were made of US Air Force northwestern Pacific 950 mb (̃1500 feet) aircraft "investigative" reconnaissance flights into tropical disturbances.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 229
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
The physical, thermodynamic and dynamic characteristics of convective cloud rings (open cell convection) occurring on July 18, 1969 during the fourth phase of the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean are studied in detail.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 311
Pub. Date
1979.
Description
The sensitivity of mesoscale features with respect to large scale tropical profiles of wind and temperature and to small scale parameterizations is investigated through a linear, spectral, non-hydrostatic model.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 188
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
Results of several cloud simulations under different environmental and initial conditions are presented. These illustrate the capability of the model in simulating the entire life-cycle of cumulus clouds subject to different forcing conditions.
17) An observational and modelling study of the June 26-27, 1985 pre-storm mesoscale convective system
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 501
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
A case study of the 26-27 June 1985 PRE-STORM Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) is presented. The system was analyzed using the dense surface and upper-air observations available from the PRE-STORM field program.
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Atmospheric science paper volume no. 597
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
VHF wind profiler data were used to study the vertical draft structure within 13 tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs) near Darwin, Australia during the wet season of 1989-1990 and 1990-1991.