The Convection associated with the Cyclone- Frontal system is shown in this short
time sequence ( every 3 minutes over 210minutes) animation.
The life cycle of a moist baroclinic wave has been simulated without the standard moist parameterizations.
Actual individual clouds are explicitly resolved in these runs using explicit moist convection in the
non hydrostatic compressible hemispheric model ZETANC. The animation shows only a very small portion of
the baroclinic life-cycle. The surface temperature is displayed from yellow (warm ~20C) to blue (cold ~ -10C). the isosurface of
liquid water (0.2 g/kg) is shown in gray.
The domain shown is 50 degrees in longitude and from 15N to 65N in latitude, 30km in height.
The numerical domain has 640x640 points in the horizontal and 56 layers in the vertical, the stretch vertical coordinate has DZ min=220m.
and DZ max =1700m. The minimum Dx=3.7km, the maximum Dx, Dy= 8.7km and in the middle of the domain (40 Lat.) Dx= 6.6 km
(The animation is based on an early simulation; a final version is in the process of being completed.)
