Abstract
A series of numerical experiments with the Hoskins-Bretherton horizontal shear model of frontogenesis in an amplifying, two-dimensional baroclinic wave is performed. The analytic solutions from the Boussinesq, semi-geostrophic model provide initial conditions for numerical integrations with a two-dimensional, dry version of the fully compressible, hydrostatic primitive equation (PE) model of Anthes and Warner with 40km horizontal resolution. A finding of particular interest is that the stability patterns in the PBL on either side of the front evolve independently of sensible heating at the surface.-from Authors
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1783-1802 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 8 |
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| State | Published - 1982 |