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A wide cold‐frontal rainband and its relationship to frontal topography
Author(s) -
Locatelli John D.,
Martin Jonathan E.,
Hobbs Peter V.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49712051603
Subject(s) - rainband , geology , front (military) , cold front , meteorology , radar , climatology , geography , engineering , telecommunications , tropical cyclone , oceanography
A wide cold‐frontal rainband associated with a vigorous surface cold front was investigated using conventional meteorological data and the velocity and reflectivity data from high‐resolution Doppler radar. It was found that the movement of the rainband was closely related to the velocity of the frontal surface, and that the substructural features of the rainband corresponded closely with the topographical features of that surface. The evolution of the topography of the frontal surface is described, and some processes that might affect frontal topography, and therefore the structure and movement of rainbands, are examined.