Frontal process and mesoscale disturbances

Author: Wu Rongsheng et al.
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Publishing Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book conducts a systematic and in-depth study on front dynamics and the development of mesoscale disturbances. The main content is divided into two parts: one part focuses on front dynamics, including the basic knowledge of fronts, the theory of frontogenesis, the influence of terrain and friction on the structure and intensity of fronts, as well as the interaction between fronts and non-adiabatic processes. The other part addresses the stability of mesoscale disturbances and the dynamics of moist potential vorticity, introducing the structural characteristics of obliquely unstable disturbances in the atmosphere, the nonlinear criteria for symmetric instability, and analyzing the features of mesoscale processes such as heavy rainfall from the perspective of potential vorticity dynamics, as well as the mass forcing issues within these processes. This book is suitable for researchers and forecasters working on mesoscale weather systems, and can also serve as a reference for teachers and students in meteorological institutions.