Recent observational studies of upper-tropospheric and lower-stratospheric winds atop mesoscale convective systems show the development of anticyclonic outflow....As the magnitude of the anticyclone increases, the inertial stability of the system is reduced, resulting in a decreased partitioning of the initial available potential energy to the balanced state of the system.

A preliminary climatology of mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs), based on satellite data from two warm seasons, indicates that these systems frequently affect United States agricultural regions and it is hypothesized that MCCs produce a highly significant portion of the growing season precipitation over these areas.

This study examines the sensitivity of horizontal heterogeneities of the soil moisture initialization (SMI) in the cloud-resolving grid of two real-data mesoscale convective system (MCS) simulations during their genesis phase.

The physical, thermodynamic and dynamic characteristics of convective cloud rings (open cell convection) occurring on July 18, 1969 during the fourth phase of the Barbados Oceanographic and Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean are studied in detail.

Results of several cloud simulations under different environmental and initial conditions are presented. These illustrate the capability of the model in simulating the entire life-cycle of cumulus clouds subject to different forcing conditions.

A case study of the 26-27 June 1985 PRE-STORM Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) is presented. The system was analyzed using the dense surface and upper-air observations available from the PRE-STORM field program.

Reports the results of simulation of the effects that mesoscale variations in land surface albedo have on the domain-averaged vertical heat fluxes.