Lecture 13: Map discussion + Cloud development and forms (Ch 6) Quiz 2 next Friday 13 Oct covers to end of Ch. 6 map discussion (situation of Thurs 5 Oct)

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Lecture 13: Map discussion + Cloud development and forms (Ch 6) Quiz 2 next Friday 13 Oct covers to end of Ch. 6 map discussion (situation of Thurs 5 Oct) mechanisms that cause lift classifying the “static stability” of atmospheric layers

Thurs 5 Oct. Fine, calm, sunny day… frost on rooves near university; patchy on lawns dry atmosphere light winds strong nocturnal inversion City Centre Airport MDTTTd 12 Sunny Sunny 103 Sunny Sunny Light Drizzle Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear Clear 83 Nocturnal cooling (we hit 20 o C by late afternoon)

ENVIRONMENT CANADA AT 7:00 AM CDT THURSDAY OCTOBER DISCUSSION... UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES FOR NEXT TWO DAYS BEFORE COOLING COMES TO PRAIRIES AS UPPER RIDGE COLLAPSES AND LONG WAVE TROUGH BUILDS OVER ALBERTA. 2:00 PM CDT THURSDAY … AB…UPPER TROUGH DEVELOPING OVER THE PROVINCE TONIGHT WILL GENERATE BROAD AREA OF PRECIPITATION OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ALBERTA. COLDER AIR FROM THE NORTH WILL MOVE INTO ALBERTA ON FRIDAY RESULTING IN THE POTENTIAL FOR SNOW OVER MOUNTAIN REGION ON FRIDAY NIGHT.

CMC 500 mb analysis,12Z Thurs 5 Oct warm & dry over Edmonton Edmntn on edge of main stream, which is carrying cloud to our N ridge over Saskatchewan

CMC 850 mb analysis,12Z Thurs 5 Oct warm & dry over Edmonton weak flow identify temperature advection Weak cold advection Stronger warm advection

temperature advection is accomplished by the velocity component that is perpendicular to the isotherms at a rate proportional to that velocity component and proportional to the temperature gradient thus the smallest rectangles with corner angles closest to 90 o are zones of strongest advection warm advection where warm isotherm blows towards cold isotherm, and vice versa advection best viewed on the 850 mb chart

anticlockwise winds crossing the isobars p falling on east side p rising on west side

Cloud development and forms (Ch6) – Cloud development and forms (Ch6) – “This chapter discusses the processes and conditions associated with the formation of clouds due to upward motions” the four mechanisms that cause lift: the four mechanisms that cause lift: Orographic lift Fig. 6-2 Frontal lift Fig. 6-5 Weather system convergence (cross-isobar flow into a Low) Localized convection slow lift large area fast lift small area

“… clouds form as air rises, expands, and cools. But why does the air rise on some occasions, and not on others? And why does the size and shape of clouds vary so much when the air does rise?” (Ahrens, “Essentials of Meteo.”) Static Stability and the ELR in relation to clouds whys spontaneous? forced? These “whys” can be explored by considering the causal origin of the lift (spontaneous?, eg. Cumulus due to thermals in an unstable boundary layer; or forced?, eg. wind forced to blow over a mountain) and the inherent susceptibility of the atmosphere to permit (or limit/attenuate/forbid) ascent of parcels

ie. the dry adiabatic lapse rate (DALR) is an idealised "benchmark" process - we vizualize the vertical motion (upward or downward) of an intact "parcel" of unsaturated air, contained in an imaginary flexible skin that freely permits the parcel to expand or contract so as to remain at the local pressure, but, which prevents heat exchange with the outside atmosphere. The thermodynamic process undergone by such an idealised parcel as it ascends (or descends) is said to be "adiabatic expansion" (adiabatic compression, if descending). Assessing Static Stability of the Atmosphere We compare the ELR (environmental lapse rate) against “benchmark” lapse rates (DALR, SALR) that are defined by appeal to an idealized conceptual process of the adiabatic lift of a parcel. by comparing the ELR with the “benchmarks” (DALR, SALR) we can assign a stability class to any layer

Will an “air parcel” that has been dislodged on the vertical axis experience: - a restoring buoyancy force (statically stable) - no buoyancy force (“statically neutral”) - a buoyancy force exacerbating (reinforcing) the original disturbance (“statically unstable”)

“absolutely** unstable atmospheric layer” - air parcel rising becomes warmer than surrounding (“environmental”) air ** absolute stability (instability) is also named “unconditional” stability (instability) Fig. 6-6 ELR exceeds both DALR and SALR ELR exceeds both DALR and SALR

“absolutely stable atmospheric layer” - air parcel rising becomes colder than surrounding (“environmental”) air Fig. 6-7 both DALR and SALR exceed the ELR both DALR and SALR exceed the ELR

Sec 6-1 Fig. 1 DALR SALR ELR 1 ELR 3 absolutely stable absolutely unstable

“conditionally unstable** atmospheric layer” ** same as conditionally stable Fig. 6-8 “If the atmosphere is conditionally unstable, an air parcel becomes buoyant if lifted above some critical altitude… the level of free convection” (p163)

Sec 6-1 Fig. 1 DALR SALR ELR 2 absolutely stable conditionallystable

height temperature DALR SALR ELR absolutely stable absolutely unstable conditionally unstable If ELR is parallel to DALR (MALR) the layer is said to be “neutral” with respect to dry (saturated) adiabatic motion (see Sec 6-1, 3 rd edition) Nb! It is slope that matters… not the temperature itself

stably do … since a stably-stratified layer strongly resists the upward motion of parcels, those parcels that, due to being forced to do so, do rise, will tend to spread horizontally in thin layers… flat tops and bases… “stratiform” clouds unstable neutral … deep layers of the atmosphere are seldom absolutely unstable … Why? Because any transient instability will result in vertical motion that mixes heat and so reduces or removes the instability (the layer in question returning spontaneously towards neutral stratification).