Moist Absolute Instability: The Sixth Static Stability State

By George H. Bryan, Michael J. Fritsch. 2000

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Convective Contribution to the Genesis of Hurricane Ophelia (2005) (2009, background): “On 6–7 September 2005, the 500-hPa map showed a broad ridge extending over the eastern United States, with almost no pressure gradient whatsoever.”
Mesoscale convective systems (2004, methodology): “[12] Bryan and Fritsch [2000] examined the behavior of layer ascent of unstable air in several midlatitude MCSs.”
Resolution Requirements for the Simulation of Deep Moist Convection (2003, background): “This is the region where broad swaths of moist absolute instability are created (Bryan and Fritsch 2000; Bryan 2002).”
Surface Characteristics of Observed Cold Pools (2008, background): “The lifting of environmental air along mesoscale-sized cold pool boundaries can produce moist absolutely unstable layers of more than 100 hPa in depth, which may influence the internal structure of the convective system (Bryan and Fritsch 2000).”
Moist Orographic Convection: Physical Mechanisms and Links to Surface-Exchange Processes (2018, background): “By comparing the parcel lapse rate to the environmental lapse rate, six different stability states can be defined: (i) absolutely stable (γ < Γs), (ii) saturated neutral (γs = Γs), (iii) conditionally unstable (Γs < γ < Γd), (iv) saturated absolutely unstable (γs > Γs), (v) dry neutral (γ = Γd), and”