Combined multiparameter radar, dual-Doppler, thermodynamic sounding, and lightning observations of 11 thunderstorms (6 from the midlatitudes, 5 from the Tropics) are examined. The thunderstorms span a wide spectrum of intensities, from weak monsoontype to severe tornadic, and include both unicellular and multicellular convection. In general, the kinematically strongest storms featured lower pro...

S U M M A R Y The formation of narrow, rapidly deforming plate boundaries separating strong plate interiors are integral components of the generation of plate tectonics from mantle convection. The development of narrow plate boundaries requires the interaction of a non-linear rheology and convection. One such non-linear rheology is two-phase damage theory which employs a nonequilibrium relation...

In this paper we review main results of Raleigh Bénard convection. Keywords—Convection, Turbulence Thermal convection is present everywhere. We find it in heating sauce pans, boilers, furnaces, and in the atmospheres of planets and stars. Convection is one of the most studied problem in sciences and engineering due to its enormous practical importance. Yet there are many unresolved issues in th...

[1] The combined CloudSat and CALIPSO satellite observations provide the first simultaneous measurements of cloud and precipitation vertical structure and are used to examine the representation of tropical clouds and precipitation in the Community Atmosphere Model version 3 (CAM3). A simulator package utilizing a model‐to‐satellite approach facilitates comparison of model simulations to observa...

For quite some times, deflation preconditioner has been proposed and used to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace methods. For symmetric positive definite linear systems, convergence of CG combined with deflation has been analyzed and compared with other preconditioners, e.g. with the abstract balancing preconditioner [Nabben and Vuik, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 27 (2006), pp. 1742–1759]. I...

Convection in chemical fronts enhances the speed and determines the curvature of the front. Convection is due to density gradients across the front. Fronts propagating in narrow vertical tubes do not exhibit convection, while convection develops in tubes of larger diameter. The transition to convection is determined not only by the tube diameter, but also by the type of chemical reaction. We de...