Cloudstreets - theory and satellite observations

Authors

  • Joachim Kuettner The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Meteorology, Atmospheric physics

Abstract

The theory presented suggests that cloudstreets form in moving air when the wind profile is sufficiently curved to create vorticity forces which are of comparable magnitude as the buoyancy forces in symmetrical convection...  The sailplane pilot can utilize these predictable weather situations which occur primarily in the spring....

Author Biography

Joachim Kuettner, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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2017-11-10

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