Dynamical Aspects of Wintertime Cold-Air Pools in an Alpine Valley System

Monthly Weather Review;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......persistence of wintertime cold-air pools in an Alpine valley...case study of a cold-pool episode is conducted...their impact on the cold-pool persistence. The...persistence of cold-air pools in deep Alpine...drainage efficiency. Cold-pool ...

Cold-air-pool structure and evolution in a mountain basin: Peter Sinks,...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the buildup of nocturnal cold-air pools was investigated during...degrees]C. The evolution of cold-pool characteristics depended...this loss. This produces a cold-air layer over the slopes, which...did not penetrate into the cold pool. Other ...

Cold pools in the Columbia basin

Weather and Forecasting;  August 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Persistent midwinter cold air pools produce multiday periods of...meteorological definition of a cold pool is provided and then a 10-yr database is used to develop a cold pool climatology. This is followed...detailed examination of two cold pool episodes ...

Meteorological processes affecting the evolution of a wintertime cold air...

Monthly Weather Review;  October 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......persistent wintertime cold air pool that began...low-level cloudiness. The cold pool began when cold air...temperatures above the cold pool. This increase of...at the top of the cold pool descended with time...temperature inside the cold pool ...

Maintenance of a Mountain Valley Cold Pool: A Numerical Study

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......nor retained the cold pool throughout the day...from eroding the cold pool, but was only sufficient...pools. A diurnal cold pool forms during the...day. A persistent cold pool lasts longer than...cycle. Therefore, a cold pool that survives the...falling ...

A Multimodel Assessment of RKW Theory's Relevance to Squall-Line...

Monthly Weather Review;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......intensity of the squall line's surface-based cold pool, and the low- to midlevel environmental...squall lines implicate the surface-based cold pool and environmental vertical wind shear...research addresses why details such as cold pool intensity and shear are important. To...

Coherent Regeneration and the Role of Water Vapor and Shear in a...

Monthly Weather Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......observations led to the speculation that cold pool dynamics and wavelike propagation mechanisms...regeneration process, with favorable cold pool-wind shear interactions playing a dominant...synoptic-scale forcings. CEA speculated that cold pool dynamics and one or more wavelike ...

Neighbours view huge homes plan

Gloucestershire Echo, The;  December 11, 2007 ;     398 words ......Saints Philip and James Church Centre on Cold Pool Lane to air their views on the controversial...be built between the railway line and Cold Pool Lane, with land to the south of the site...on these." Jennifer Link, who lives in Cold Pool Lane said: "Given that we already have...

cold pool

A Dictionary of Weather;      41 words ...cold pool An area of relatively cold air, surrounded by closed isotherms and isolated from the main body of cold air closer to the pole. At the surface, such a cold pool is a region of relative stability , whereas one at middle levels tends to have low stability .

Residents' fears aired at inquiry

Gloucestershire Echo, The;  January 30, 2008 ;     428 words ......pleas against the scheme. Homeowners from Cold Pool Lane and surrounding roads addressed...as the extra cars will come out onto Cold Pool Lane, Grovefield Way and then roads such...finished. But mother Christine Gannon, of Cold Pool Lane, said: "I'd be amazed if that is...

"A Theory for Strong Long-Lived Squall Lines" Revisited

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......circulation associated with the storm-generated cold pool and the circulation associated with the...distribution of shear relative to the cold pool for optimal lifting, as well as the relevance...controlling the circulation around the cold pool, and through an analysis of an ...

Simple Models of the Role of Surface Fluxes in Convective Cold Pool...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......and through direct modification of the cold pool buoyancy. In this paper, simple models...is pointed out that the depletion of cold pool buoyancy by surface fluxes is analogous...give relatively simple expressions for cold pool "runout length" and buoyancy distributions...

Formation of Extreme Cold-Air Pools in Elevated Sinkholes: An Idealized...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......processes leading to the formation of extreme cold-air pools in elevated sinkholes. The simulations are idealized...preconditions for the formation of an extreme cold-air pool in a sinkhole. Apart from undisturbed clear...to get a better insight into the mechanisms of ...

Discrete Propagation in Numerically Simulated Nocturnal Squall Lines

Monthly Weather Review;  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the surface, establishing a subcloud cold pool that spreads along the ground. This pool...continuity provided by the spreading cold pool's persistence. Yet, radar imagery often...gust front that a mechanism other than cold pool lifting must be operating. In Fig. 1...

Comments on "'A Theory for Strong Long-Lived Squall Lines'...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......circulation associated with the storm-generated cold pool and the circulation associated with the...conclude that "the relative strength of the cold pool and ambient shear has a profound effect...importance of the relative strength of the cold pool and ambient shear to system ...