Convective updrafts near sea-breeze fronts

Fu, Shizuo; Rotunno, Richard; Xue, Huiwen

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7727-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7727-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7727-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 11

Research article

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15 Jun 2022

Research article |

| 15 Jun 2022

Convective updrafts near sea-breeze fronts

Shizuo Fu, Richard Rotunno, and Huiwen Xue

Data sets

Updrafts near SBF Shizuo Fu https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/3HYPS

Model code and software

Cloud Model 1 George Bryan https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/people/bryan/cm1/

Short summary

The convective updrafts near the sea-breeze fronts (SBFs) play important roles in initiating deep convection, but their characteristics are not well understood. By performing large-eddy simulations, we explain why the updrafts near the SBF are larger than but have similar strength to the updrafts ahead of the SBF. The results should also apply to other boundary-layer convergence zones similar to the SBF.