Lake-Induced Mesoscale Disturbances
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"Lake.effect storms" are well known among weather                       forecasters.  During late autumn and early winter when cold air                 from Canada flows over the Great Lakes, which are still                         relatively warm, extensive cloudiness and snow showers sometimes                occur on the lee side of the lakes. Previous work has shown that                these storms generally have a shallow vertical structure and                    frequently develop without any upper.level dynamical forcing.                   The sensible heat flux from the lakes and the surface friction                  collectively, so thought, play a role.  However, are these storms               a forced phenomenon? Is there any instability mechanism at work?                Using a sophisticated primitive equation model for numerical                    simulations and a nonlinear spectral model for examining the                    physics selectively, Professors Shirer and Fritsch will address                 these questions.
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