The Effect of Small-Scale Moisture Variability on Thunderstorm Initiation

By Tammy M. Weckwerth. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Control and Systems Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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Citations in the corpus

• The Convective Storm Initiation Project (2007, background): “The site of the initial out- break will be influenced partly by any spatial variability in the temperature and/or humidity of the boundary layer air, perhaps on scales too small to be resolved by conventional observations (e.g., Weckwerth 2000).”
• Tropospheric water vapor, convection, and climate (2010, background): “Section 7 summarizes where the field stands and notes some future directions that seem promising.”
• Benefit of convection permitting climate model simulations in the representation of convective precipitation (2014, background): “The evolution of CAPE and CIN strongly depends on the atmospheric temperature and moisture, particularly on their distribution within the boundary layer (Brooks et al. 1993; Crook 1996; Weckwerth 2000; Khodayar et al. 2010).”
• On the Nature of the Transition Between Roll and Cellular Organization in the Convective Boundary Layer (2017, background): “1996), which can influence the initiation of deep, moist convection (e.g. Wilson et al. 1992; Weckwerth 2000; Xue and Martin 2006).”
• A Review of Convection Initiation and Motivation for IHOP_2002 (2006, background): “…convective systems, (ii) questions on the representativeness of soundings due to significant small-scale moisture variations (Weckwerth et al. 1996; Weckwerth 2000), (iii) a recommendation to conduct field campaigns for cross validation of water vapor measurement systems conceived at the 1998…”
• Water‐vapour variability within a convective boundary‐layer assessed by large‐eddy simulations and IHOP_2002 observations (2005, background): “Weckwerth (2000) showed how small-scale water-vapour variability could also affect the determination of whether or not deep convection will be initiated through its impact on atmospheric stability.”
• Use of NWP for Nowcasting Convective Precipitation: Recent Progress and Challenges (2014, background): “The most likely origin of the scale dependence of precipitation predictability discussed above is the small-scale variability of low-level humidity as well as wind and temperature (Weckwerth 2000; Ge et al. 2013).”
• Paradigms for Tropical Cyclone Intensification (2014, background): “Further, observations have shown that low-level moisture has significant variability on small spatial scales and is not well sampled (Weckwerth 2000), especially in tropical-depression and tropical cyclone environments.”