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Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes: Observations and Dynamics 2013 ed. [Hardback]

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  • Formāts: Hardback, 456 pages, height x width: 244x170 mm, 144 Illustrations, color; 97 Illustrations, black and white; XXVII, 456 p. 241 illus., 144 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
  • Sērija : Springer Praxis Books
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • ISBN-10: 3642053807
  • ISBN-13: 9783642053801
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Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes: Observations and Dynamics 2013 ed.Palielināt
  • Formāts: Hardback, 456 pages, height x width: 244x170 mm, 144 Illustrations, color; 97 Illustrations, black and white; XXVII, 456 p. 241 illus., 144 illus. in color., 1 Hardback
  • Sērija : Springer Praxis Books
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Jun-2013
  • Izdevniecība: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • ISBN-10: 3642053807
  • ISBN-13: 9783642053801
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Here is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It features many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from mobile Doppler radars, operational Doppler radars, photographs and numerical simulations.

This book is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It will contain many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from mobile Doppler radars, operational Doppler radars, photographs and numerical simulations.

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Meteorologist Bluestein (Univ. of Oklahoma) has researched tornadoes and severe conductive storms for more than 30 years. This book is a welcome and useful addition to the literature and will be of great value to atmospheric science students and practitioners. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (S. C. Pryor, Choice, Vol. 51 (7), March, 2014)

Dedication ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of figures
xv
List of abbreviations and acronyms
xxv
1 Introduction
1(26)
1.1 Basic definition of severe convective storms and scope of the material
1(2)
1.2 A brief history of severe storm field programs and numerical modeling efforts
3(20)
1.2.1 Field programs and instrument development
3(19)
1.2.2 Numerical model simulation experiments
22(1)
1.3 Methods to be employed
23(1)
1.4 General monographs and books
24(1)
1.5 References and bibliography
25(2)
2 The basic equations
27(68)
2.1 The equations of motion
27(5)
2.1.1 The horizontal equation of motion
27(1)
2.1.2 Buoyancy and the vertical equation of motion: defying gravity
28(4)
2.2 Thermodynamics
32(2)
2.3 Conservation of mass, and the Boussinesq and anelastic approximations
34(7)
2.3.1 The Boussinesq approximation
36(1)
2.3.2 Anelastic approximation
37(1)
2.3.3 Water substance
38(3)
2.4 The vorticity and circulation equations
41(4)
2.5 The divergence equation and the buoyancy force
45(15)
2.5.1 Buoyancy-induced and dynamically induced pressure perturbations
46(5)
2.5.2 Retrieval of pressure and buoyancy fields from the wind field
51(2)
2.5.3 Quantitative analysis of a buoyant sphere in a resting environment
53(7)
2.6 Ertel's potential vorticity
60(1)
2.7 The Exner function as a vertical coordinate, potential temperature as a thermodynamic variable, and the pseudo-incompressible continuity equation
60(3)
2.8 Simple, idealized models of dry convection: plumes and bubbles
63(8)
2.8.1 Similarity models of plumes and thermals
65(1)
2.8.2 The plume dynamical model
66(5)
2.9 Introduction to Rayleigh-Benard convection
71(14)
2.9.1 Convection in a resting atmosphere without rotation
73(7)
2.9.2 Convection in a resting atmosphere with rotation
80(3)
2.9.3 Convection in a linearly sheared atmosphere without rotation
83(2)
2.10 Response of a Boussinesq atmosphere to heat sources
85(5)
2.11 Similarity of fluid dynamics equations to electromagnetic equations
90(1)
2.12 General monographs and books
90(1)
2.13 References and bibliography
90(5)
3 Ordinary-cell convective storms
95(70)
3.1 Observations and dynamics
96(24)
3.1.1 Conditional instability and the initiation of deep convection
96(2)
3.1.2 Entrainment and convective initiation
98(6)
3.1.3 Observed life cycle and vertical velocity
104(16)
3.2 Gust fronts and downdrafts
120(33)
3.2.1 Gust fronts in the absence of vertical wind shear
120(26)
3.2.2 Gust fronts in the presence of vertical shear: RKW theory
146(7)
3.2.3 Gravity waves forced by a density current
153(1)
3.3 Multicell convective storms
153(5)
3.4 General monographs and books
158(2)
3.5 References and bibliography
160(5)
4 Supercells
165(100)
4.1 Supercells and the bulk Richardson number
166(7)
4.2 Observed supercell behavior and early theories
173(3)
4.3 Observed supercell structure: cloud features, precipitation distribution, polarimetric radar-observed parameters, and wind and temperature fields
176(33)
4.3.1 The main updraft in supercells
176(9)
4.3.2 Downdrafts: forward-flank downdraft and the rear-flank downdraft
185(20)
4.3.3 Precipitation type and distribution
205(4)
4.4 The production of mid-level rotation
209(4)
4.5 Interaction of vertical shear with updrafts/downdrafts forced by buoyancy: linear and nonlinear pressure effects
213(27)
4.5.1 Convective storm dynamics for straight hodographs
219(7)
4.5.2 Convective storm dynamics for curved hodographs
226(4)
4.5.3 Straight vs. curved hodograph dynamics: two paradigms
230(7)
4.5.4 Sensitivity of simulated supercell structure to environmental thermodynamic and cloud microphysics parameters
237(3)
4.6 The Deep Convergence Zone (DCZ)
240(1)
4.7 The production of low-level rotation
240(6)
4.7.1 The "owl horn" echo
246(1)
4.8 The life cycle of the mesocyclone and cyclic mesocyclogenesis
246(6)
4.9 Supercell structure and behavior in relation to inhomogeneities in the environment, and interactions with neighboring storms and surface boundaries
252(4)
4.9.1 Neighboring cell interaction
252(3)
4.9.2 Movement across outflow boundaries or fronts
255(1)
4.10 Rotating downdrafts in convective storms
256(2)
4.11 General monographs and books
258(1)
4.12 References and bibliography
258(7)
5 Mesoscale convective systems
265(42)
5.1 Formation
266(7)
5.2 Morphology
273(19)
5.3 The dynamics and thermodynamics of mature MCS squall lines
292(4)
5.4 The production of vortices in MCSs
296(8)
5.5 General monographs and books
304(1)
5.6 References and bibliography
304(3)
6 Tornadoes
307(110)
6.1 Basic observational aspects of tornadoes
307(19)
6.2 Tornado climatology
326(6)
6.3 Tornado research
332(2)
6.4 Types of tornadoes and tornado-like vortices
334(8)
6.5 Tornado vortex formation: tornadogenesis
342(18)
6.5.1 Tornado-like vortices in a vortex chamber
342(2)
6.5.2 Stretching of pre-existing vertical vorticity
344(3)
6.5.3 Tilting of horizontal vorticity into the vertical, followed by stretching underneath an updraft
347(5)
6.5.4 The dynamic pipe effect and the vertical propagation of vortices
352(2)
6.5.5 Role of downdrafts in enhancing and transporting vorticity
354(2)
6.5.6 Negative viscosity
356(1)
6.5.7 Two-celled mesocyclones and shear instabilities
357(1)
6.5.8 Cyclic tornadogenesis
357(2)
6.5.9 Counter-rotating tornado pairs
359(1)
6.6 Vortex dynamics
360(44)
6.6.1 Vortex structure
363(20)
6.6.2 Maximum possible wind speeds in tornadoes
383(21)
6.7 Economic and societal impacts
404(1)
6.8 Unresolved problems and challenges for future research, with suggestions for improved measurement capabilities
405(2)
6.9 General monographs and books
407(1)
6.10 References and bibliography
407(10)
7 Forecasting and future work
417(12)
7.1 Short-range forecasting
417(7)
7.1.1 Ingredients-based forecasting
417(4)
7.1.2 Model-based forecasting
421(2)
7.1.3 Evaluations of forecast skill
423(1)
7.2 Forecasting and climate change
424(1)
7.3 Future research
425(1)
7.4 General monographs and books
426(1)
7.5 References and bibliography
427(2)
Appendix: Doppler radar analysis techniques 429(10)
Index 439
I have been funded by the National Science Foundation continuously since 1977 to study various aspects of severe convective storms and tornadoes. My research group pioneered the use of instruments to study tornadoes close up from a ground-based mobile platform. In particular, for the past twenty years we have been using increasingly sophisticated mobile Doppler radars mounted on vans and trucks to determine the fine-scale structure of tornadoes and to document their formation. To a lesser extent, I have also used numerical models to study the behavior of severe convective storms using controlled numerical simulations. I have single-authored the trade book TORNADO ALLEY: MONSTER STORMS OF THE GREAT PLAINS (Oxford Univ. Press) and a two-volume textbook SYNOPTIC-DYNAMIC METEOROLOGY IN MIDLATITUDES (Oxford Univ. Press). I wrote these books while here at the University of Oklahoma and while on various sabbaticals and other leaves at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO. I have also authored or co-authored 89 refereed journal articles and seven chapters in books or monographs in addition to ten contributions to encyclopedias and other books; the subject of a majority of these publications is in the area of severe convective storms. A colleague of mine and I have just edited a monograph, to be published by the American Meteorological Society, honoring the career of our late graduate advisor, Fred Sanders, an expert in synoptic and mesoscale meteorology. I have been teaching a graduate-level course on convective storms approximately every other year for approximately 25 years and have made many invited presentations on this topic at scientific meetings and at other institutions