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Relationship of Moist Convection to Boundary-Layer Properties: Application to a Semiarid Region
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Relationship of Moist Convection to Boundary-Layer Properties: Application to a Semiarid Region |
| Names |
Mahrt, L.
(creator) Pierce, Donald (creator) |
| Date Issued | 1980-11 (iso8601) |
| Abstract | A simple analytical expression is developed to relate the energy required to initiate moist convection to boundary-layer properties. This expression and exploratory regression are applied to data from the National Hail Research Experiment to discriminate between environments leading to cumulus congestus and well-developed hail-producing thunderstorms in northeast Colorado. In this semiarid region, the parcel stability below the lifted condensation level is greater in environments leading to hail-producing thunderstorms compared to environments producing only cumulus congestus, as has been found in previous studies. As a result, boundary-layer properties have a multiplicity of contrasting influences on the severity of moist convection. For example, convection severity in this region generally increases with increasing low-level moisture. However, for a fixed mixed-layer depth and temperature, convection severity increases with decreasing low-level moisture because such a decrease increases the parcel stability below the condensation level |
| Genre | Article |
| Identifier | Mahrt, L., Donald Pierce, 1980: Relationship of Moist Convection to Boundary-Layer Properties: Application to a Semiarid Region. Monthly Weather Review, 108, 1810–1815. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1980)108<1810:ROMCTB>2.0.CO;2 |
