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Effects of stratospheric lapse rate on thunderstorm cloud-top structure in a three-dimensional numerical simulation. I - Some basic results of comparative experimentsThe effects of stratospheric temperature lapse rate on cloud top height/temperature structure for strongly sheared, mature, isolated midlatitude thunderstorms are investigated by performing three different experiments with an anelastic, three-dimensional model: (1) with an assumed stratospheric lapse rate of 0 K/km (i.e., the isothermal case), (2) with 3 K/km, and (3) with -3 K/km (i.e., the case of inversion). Kinematic storm structure is very similar in all three cases, especially in the troposphere; a strong quasi-steady updraft evolves and splits into a dominant cyclonic overshooting right-mover and a weaker, anticyclonic left-mover that does not reach the tropopause.
Document ID
19880058576
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Schlesinger, Robert E.
(Wisconsin, University Madison, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
May 15, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Volume: 45
ISSN: 0022-4928
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
88A45803
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-23
Distribution Limits
Public
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