The authors present a unique, scale-discriminating study of the environment-relative circulations within a mesoscale convective system (MCS) and mesoscale convective vortex (MCV). The MCS, a leading convective line and trailing stratiform region that became asymmetric, passed through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Profiler Network (NPN) in Kansas and Oklahoma on 1 Au...

The Open Cellular Convection (OCC) associated with cold air outbreaks is a common phenomenon over the North Sea where large number of wind parks are presented. Thus, reliable numerical simulations OCC events have great importance for offshore energy. We investigate ability to simulate using Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model ERA5 reanalysis data as initial lateral boundary conditions OSI...

Observations from the International Winter Monsoon Experiment (Winter MONEX) have been analyzed to determine the nature of the vertical motion field within mesoscale deep convective systems that occurred during December 1978 over the southern portion of the South China Sea. Vertical motion has been computed using rawinsonde data from a nearly equilateral triangle (*400km on a side) of Soviet re...

This paper examines the factors determining the distribution, length scale, magnitude, and structure of mesoscale oceanic eddies in an eddy-resolving primitive equation simulation of the Southern Ocean [Modeling Eddies in the Southern Ocean (MESO)]. In particular, the authors investigate the hypothesis that the primary source of mesoscale eddies is baroclinic instability acting locally on the m...