SQUALL LINES - IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS
- What are the important air flows and pressure patterns within a squall line?
- How does the shear strength affect squall line structure?
- What are the three commonly accepts squall line archetypes and how do the shear profiles differ between them?
- What pressure perturbations does a positively buoyant parcel create?
- Describe the 2-D evolution of a squall line in terms of C and delta U.
- What controls the strength of the rear inflow? How does it form?
- How do the line-end vortices form? Which one dominates with time and why?
- How do the line-end vortices impact the RIJ?
- What is an MCV? How do they form? Why are they important?