CONCEPTUAL MODELS

In this part of the Manual, you will find a detailed description of about fifty conceptual models in different scales.

• COLD FRONT
  • Arctic Cold Front
  • Cold Front
  • Cold Front in Cold Advection
  • Cold Front in Warm Advection
  • Split Front
• WARM FRONT
  • Detached Warm Front
  • Warm Front Band
  • Warm Front Shield
• OCCLUSION
  • Back-Bent Occlusion
  • Cold Air Development
  • Instant Occlusion
  • Occlusion: Cold Conveyor Belt Type
  • Occlusion: Warm Conveyor Belt Type
• BAROCLINIC BOUNDARY
  • Baroclinic Boundary
• SUBSTRUCTURES IN FRONTS AND INITIAL STAGES OF CYCLOGENESIS
  • Front Decay
  • Front Intensification by Jet Crossing
  • Rapid Cyclogenesis
  • Secondary Low Centres in Occlusion Cloud Bands
  • Upper Wave
  • Wave
• NON-FRONTAL SYNOPTIC SCALE PHENOMENA
  • Deformation Band
  • Thickness Ridge Cloudiness
  • Upper Level Low
  • Warm Conveyor Belt
• MESOSCALE PHENOMENA
  • Comma
  • Convergence Cloudiness
  • Enhanced Cumulus
  • Jet Fibres
  • Open Cell Convection and Closed Cell Convection
  • Polar Low
• CONVECTIVE WEATHER FEATURES
  • Cumulonimbus Cluster
  • Cumulonimbus (Cb) and Mesoscale Convective System (MCS)
  • CONVECTIVE CLOUD FEATURES IN TYPICAL SYNOPTIC ENVIRONMENTS
    • At the Leading Edge of Frontal Cloud Bands
    • Enhancement of Convection by PV
    • Fair Weather Conditions
    • The Warm Sector
    • The Warm Sector: Spanish Plume
• OROGRAPHICAL WEATHER FEATURES
  • Barrage Cloud
  • Foehn
  • Orographic Effects on Frontal cloud
  • Lee Cloudiness
• LOW CLOUDS
  • Cloud Streets
  • Fog and Stratus
  • Stratocumulus Sheets
• WV STRUCTURES
  • Dark Stripes
  • Water Vapour Vortices
• SMALL SCALE CONCEPTUAL MODELS
  • Coastal Convergence
  • Convergence Lines Over Seas and Lakes
  • Non-orographic Convergence Lines
  • Orographically Induced Convergence Lines
  • Sea-Breeze

• Arctic Cold Front

• Back-Bent Occlusion
• Baroclinic Boundary
• Barrage Cloud

• Cloud Streets
• Coastal Convergence
• Cold Air Development
• Cold Front
• Cold Front in Cold Advection
• Cold Front in Warm Advection
• Comma
• Convective cloud features in typical synoptic environments: At the leading edge of frontal cloud bands
• Convective cloud features in typical synoptic environments: Enhancement of convection by PV
• Convective cloud features in typical synoptic environments: Fair weather conditions
• Convective cloud features in typical synoptic environments: The warm sector
• Convergence Cloudiness
• Convergence Lines over Seas and Lakes
• Cumulonimbus (Cb) and Mesoscale Convective System (MCS)
• Cumulonimbus Clusters

• Dark Stripes
• Deformation Band
• Detached Warm Front

• Enhanced Cumulus

• Foehn
• Fog and Stratus
• Front decay
• Front intensification by jet crossing: FI by Jet

• Instant Occlusion

• Jet Fibres

• Lee Cloudiness

• Non-Orographic Convergence Lines

• Open Cell Convection and Closed Cell Convection
• Occlusion: Cold Conveyor Belt Type
• Occlusion: Warm Conveyor Belt Type
• Orographic Effects on Frontal cloud
• Orographically induced Convergence Lines

• Polar Low

• Rapid Cyclogenesis

• Sea-Breeze
• Secondary Low Centres in Occlusion Cloud Bands
• Spanish Plume
• Split Front
• Stratocumulus Sheets

• Thickness Ridge Cloudiness

• Upper Level Low
• Upper Wave

• Warm Conveyor Belt
• Warm Front Band
• Warm Front Shield
• Water Vapour Vortices
• Wave