Thursday, 19 April 2012
Heritage Ballroom (Sawgrass Marriott)
The dynamics of north African squall lines is studied through a set of idealized cloud-resolving simulations of convection on an equatorial beta-plane. Results demonstrate the essential roles of tropospheric gravity waves, planetary rotation, and vertical shear of the background zonal flow.
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