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Original Articles

Boundary‐layer influence on the development of a mesoscale rainstorm

Pages 634-652 | Received 07 Aug 1987, Published online: 15 Nov 2010
 

Abstract

A major convective rainstorm slowly developed in the largely barotropic warm sector of an open‐wave cyclone. Meso‐beta‐scale boundary‐layer conditions played a significant role in the location of storm development, and provided favourable thermodynamic gradients and persistently convergent flow in preferred areas. Minimal storm movement and a strong association between the surface divergence field and cloud evolution permitted the estimation of that fraction of the moisture fed into the storm from the boundary layer that was returned to the ground as rain.

Résumé

Une importante tempête de pluie convective s'est développée dans le secteur chaud principalement barotropique d'une dépression avec onde frontale ouverte. Les conditions de la couche limite d'échelle meso‐beta, où l'on trouvait des gradients thermodynamiques propices et un flux convergent persistant dans les régions favourables, ont joué un rôle important dans la localisation du développement de la tempête. La tempête se déplaçant peu et une forte association entre le champ de divergence à la surface et l'évolution des nuages a permis d'estimer la fraction d'humidité fournie à la tempête à partir de la couche limite qui est retournée au sol en pluie.

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