Tag Archive: cold pools

Research brief: Drones used to map thunderstorms

July 16, 2021 10:12 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Drones used to map thunderstorms

The overarching goal of the Colorado State University Convective CLoud Outflows and UpDrafts Experiment (C3LOUD-Ex) was to enhance our understanding of deep convective storm processes and how they are represented in numerical models. Pivotal to the experiment was a novel “Flying Curtain” strategy.

Research brief: Cold air below thunderstorms affects storm orientation

June 22, 2020 3:47 pm Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Cold air below thunderstorms affects storm orientation

This study investigates the influence of cold pools, which are evaporatively cooled regions of air near the surface, below thunderstorms, on the orientation of line‐organized thunderstorm clusters using computer model simulations.