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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.

Research brief: Tropical thunderstorms strengthen without cold pools

May 28, 2018 5:39 am Published by Comments Off on Research brief: Tropical thunderstorms strengthen without cold pools

In contrast to expectations, tropical thunderstorms without cold pools actually intensify, demonstrating unequivocally that cold pools can be detrimental to convection. Further investigations suggest that organised systems become maintained through atmospheric wave-convection interactions, which is a significantly different process to the established theory.