Abstract
The direct effect of vertical shear of the horizontal wind for the unperturbed environment on the cloud-environment interface instability is investigated. Results indicate that the direct influence of environmental shear typical of atmospheric magnitudes is negligible. This is explained as a result of the large difference between typical magnitudes of environmental shear (usually smaller than 10-2 s-1) and the magnitude of baroclinically generated interfacial shear (typically around 10-1 s-1 for small cumuli). -Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3821-3828 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 23 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |