Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Regional Gliding School Turbulence is an irregular motion of air resulting from “eddies” and vertical currents. Can cause light bumps or loss…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Frontal Systems Lessons 35/36/37 Slide 3 Definition of a Front A front is a zone of transition between two contrasting air masses. Within the frontal zone…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Vertical Structure of Extratopical cyclones Leila M. V. Carvalho Slide 3 Upper level charts The objective of these analyses is to identify how a baroclinic…
Slide 1 ATMO 251 Special Thanks to Dr. Russ Schumacher who originally developed these slides for a guest lecture. Fronts and Frontogenesis Slide 2 What is a front? We see…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Slide 3 Slide 4 Corfidi, et al. 2008 – convection where air parcels originate from a moist absolutely unstable layer above the PBL. Can produce severe hail,…
Slide 1 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. Keefer Slide…
Fred Sandersâ Contributions to Synoptic Meteorology: Perspectives on his Cold-Frontal Research David M. Schultz Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies,…