Dynamics of MCS mesohighs and wake lows
| dc.contributor.author | Haertel, Patrick T., author | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-27T21:20:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-05-27T21:20:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.description | Spring 1998. | |
| dc.description | Also issued as author's dissertation (Ph.D.) -- Colorado State University, 1998. | |
| dc.description.abstract | MCS mesohighs and wake lows were simulated using a simple dynamical system in which the only forcing was the lower-tropospheric cooling associated with stratiform precipitation, and the response consisted entirely of buoyancy waves. The simulated mesohighs and wake lows resemble those observed in nature-their thermodynamic and kinematic structures, their positions relative to the forcing, and their life cycles are all realistic. When the forcing was steady and moved at a constant speed the mesohigh-wake- low response quickly approached a steady state. The steady-state response to the stratiform forcing is shown to be more intense than that associated with convective forcing, because the buoyancy-wave speed of the former is closer to the speed at which MCS's move. I conclude that MCS mesohighs and wake lows are a quasi-steady-state buoyancy-wave response to the lower-tropospheric cooling associated with stratiform precipitation. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NA67RJ0152 and NA37RJ0202. | |
| dc.format.medium | reports | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/235136 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation | Catalog record number (MMS ID): 991003706859703361 | |
| dc.relation | QC852 .C6 no. 649 | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Atmospheric Science Papers (Blue Books) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Atmospheric science paper, no. 649 | |
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| dc.subject | Convection (Meteorology) | |
| dc.subject | Mesometeorology | |
| dc.subject | Precipitation (Meteorology) | |
| dc.title | Dynamics of MCS mesohighs and wake lows | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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