Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: he interactions of updrafts and cold pools can play a pivotal role in determining convective storm characteristics.Convective updrafts are driven by latent heating, buoyancy, and vertical pressure gradients, and their velocities range from 5-10 m s -1 in tropical maritime convection to 50-70 m s -1 in midlatitude supercells.Cold pools, on the other hand, are formed through latent cooling due to evaporation and/or melting and are a surface manifestation of storm downdrafts.They range in depth from 100-200 m to nearly 5 km, and in horizontal extent from a few kilometers C 3 LOUD-Ex Raising the Curtain on Convection
Authors: Susan C. van den Heever, Leah D. Grant, Sean W. Freeman, Peter J. Marinescu, Julie Barnum, Jennie Bukowski, Eleanor Casas, Aryeh J. Drager, Brody Fuchs, Gregory R. Herman, Stacey M. Hitchcock, Patrick C. Kennedy, Erik R. Nielsen, J. Minnie Park, Kristen Rasmussen, Muhammad Naufal Razin, Ryan Riesenberg, Emily Riley Dellaripa, Christopher J. Slocum, Benjamin A. Toms, Adrian van den Heever
Institution: Colorado State University
Language: English
Subfield: Atmospheric Science
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4394716807