The concept of "moist available energy," defined by Lorenz is applied to study the potential energy available for cumulus convection in a conditionally unstable atmosphere.

This paper presents a diagnostic study of two models proposed by Betts (1973a). The first was a model for a well-mixed sub-cloud layer capped by a more stable transition layer. The downward heat flux at the base of this transition layer is here estimated from the thermal structure of the layer to be 15-25% of the surface sensible heat flux. The second model was a model for a two layer lapse-rate structure for the cumulus layer. A sensitivity analysis...

Two detailed, multi-sensor case studies of mesoscale convective storms occurring in summer over the central and eastern Colorado Rockies are presented.

A linear theory is given for the case of steady thermal convection in a stratified fluid with a general thermal boundary condition at the upper and lower limits of the system. The theory is applied to a number of fluid systems and the results are discussed in terms of the Rayleigh number, the horizontal wave number and the vertical velocity and temperature perturbation profiles in the vertical.

Geosynchronous satellite data were employed for a climatological study of two summers' data and for a specific case study to observe convective interactions between the eastern slopes of the Colorado Rocky Mountains and the plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas.

A two-dimensional numerical model of a large-scale mountain-plain circulation is presented which includes the effect of a slightly sloping plain.