The Sensitivity of Simulated Supercell Structure and Intensity to Variations in the Shapes of Environmental Buoyancy and Shear Profiles

By E. McCaul, M. Weisman. 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Geophysics

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In Atmospheric Science

1. A. Seifert
2. Klaus D. Beheng
3. Keith D. Sherburn
4. M. Parker
5. R. edwards
6. Richard L. Thompson
7. Hugh Morrison
8. Richard P. James

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2. Richard P. James
3. M. Parker
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Citations in the corpus

• Climatology and Ingredients of Significant Severe Convection in High-Shear, Low-CAPE Environments (2014, background): “McCaul and Weisman (2001) showed that in modeling simulations of marginally unstable environments, steeper LLLRs corresponded to stronger convection when compared to modest LLLRs. Additionally, in the eastern United States, where elevated mixed layers are rare compared to the plains, steep LR75s…”
• A two-moment cloud microphysics parameterization for mixed-phase clouds. Part 2: Maritime vs. continental deep convective storms (2006, background): “As discussed recently by McCaul and Weisman (2001) the storm development can be different due to variations of the vertical profiles of environmental buoyancy and shear even at same CAPE.”
• Characteristics of Vertical Wind Profiles near Supercells Obtained from the Rapid Update Cycle (2003, background): “…the differences, the 0–3-km SRH (Davies-Jones et al. 1990) does not mask them; that is, the SRH in the 1–3-km layer is similar in all supercell environments.7 McCaul and Weisman (2001) also arrived at a similar conclusion regarding the importance of the vertical wind shear near the surface.”
• A Numerical Investigation of the Effects of Dry Air Aloft on Deep Convection (2009, methodology): “In the simulations of quasi-linear systems, it was desirable to explore a broad range of CAPE values, leading to the use of the technique of James et al. (2006), which builds upon the approach of McCaul and Weisman (2001).”