Sentences with phrase «in cumulonimbus clouds»

In cumulonimbus clouds during conditions where graupels are repeatedly wetted and then injected back toward high altitudes by strong updrafts, very large graupels called hail result.

Vertical mixing in the atmosphere is dominated by energetic mixtures in cumulonimbus clouds of two basic provenances: local convective instability, or baroclinic instability with convective instability at the frontal boundary.

Not exact matches

But not as annoying as the tedious, predictable blowhards who clearly feel their calling in life is to channel the spirit of cumulonimbus clouds, for yea, do they love to rain upon every parade.

As the storm moves, a «blob» of cold air builds, particularly in the upper reaches of the towering cumulonimbus clouds that march along at the storm's front.

Textbook cumulonimbus - formed summer thunderstorms are fairly rare [25] in Los Angeles, because the atmosphere over the coastal basin is generally too stable and dry, especially during summer, to allow the strong vertical development necessary for mature cumulonimbus clouds.

The typical enhancement of rainfall and updraft motion in deep cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds within heavy raining meso - scale disturbance areas acts to increase the return flow mass subsidence in the surrounding broader clear and partly cloudy regions (Figure 8).

Changes in ocean surface temperatures caused by El Niño significantly affect where cumulonimbus clouds form in the ITCZ and, therefore, the geographic structure of the Hadley cell.

In the tropics this creates the major cloud form of cumulonimbus (thunderstorms), massive towering structures with powerful internal winds carrying vast amounts of energy through the atmosphere.

Jensen, E.J., and A.S. Ackerman, 2006: Homogeneous aerosol freezing in the tops of high - altitude tropical cumulonimbus clouds.

The warm water evaporates from the ocean surface, and the light, warm and humid air rises, leading to deep convection in the form of towering cumulonimbus clouds and heavy precipitation.

For example, those towering thunderstorm clouds (cumulonimbus) are very important mechanisms in transporting heat, but are too small for the large grid system of the models.