Kk. Szeto et Re. Stewart, CLOUD MODEL SIMULATIONS OF SURFACE WEATHER ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH WARM FRONTAL REGIONS OF WINTER STORMS, Atmospheric research, 44(3-4), 1997, pp. 243-269
Cold season warm-frontal systems are simulated with a 2-D cloud-resolv
ing model, The organization of surface weather elements (precipitation
type and intensity, factors affecting visibility, accretion, blowing
snow and surface wind) in the vicinity of the surface front an investi
gated. The patterns of surface weather conditions in the model storms
are in good agreement with those observed in real systems. The organiz
ation of weather elements is found to be sensitive to large-scale cond
itions such as background stability, temperature and frontal forcing.
These surface weather conditions are also found to be affected signifi
cantly by cloud-scale and mesoscale dynamical processes. The implicati
ons of the model results to the improvement of quantitative forecastin
g of weather elements in winter storms are discussed. (C) 1997 Elsevie
r Science B.V.