Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7727-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-7727-2022
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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

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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.
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