Weather Hazards Chapter 9, Section B. Thunderstorms Conditions –Unstable air –Lifting action –High moisture content Stages –Cumulus stageMature stage.
Regional Gliding School Turbulence is an irregular motion of air resulting from “eddies” and vertical currents. Can cause light bumps or loss of control.
Frontal Systems Lessons 35/36/37 Definition of a Front A front is a zone of transition between two contrasting air masses. Within the frontal zone exist.
Vertical Structure of Extratopical cyclones Leila M. V. Carvalho.
Convective Cloud Research Current Projects: 1. CSIP 2. COPS 3. ICEPIC 4. RICO 5. APPRAISE 6. VOCALS (AG) 7. In-cloud temperature probe Possible Future.
ATMO 251 Special Thanks to Dr. Russ Schumacher who originally developed these slides for a guest lecture. Fronts and Frontogenesis.
Warm and occluded fronts. Today Cold fronts Warm fronts Occluded fronts.
Corfidi, et al. 2008 – convection where air parcels originate from a moist absolutely unstable layer above the PBL. Can produce severe hail, damaging.
Shelf Break Fronts: How much do we really know? A brief overview of the physical properties, formation and modeling of Shelf Break Fronts LT Thomas B.
Fred Sanders’ Contributions to Synoptic Meteorology: Perspectives on his Cold-Frontal Research David M. Schultz Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological.
Daily Operations Briefing September 2, 2012 As of 8:30 a.m. EDT
Shot from U.S.S. Honolulu at the Arctic Circle