Christopher A. Davis

TL;DR: In this article, three well-observed Atlantic tropical weather systems that occurred during the 2010 hurricane season are analyzed in a system-following frame to quantify the mesoscale dynamics of these systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the dynamical processes that contributed to Sandy's secondary peak in intensity during its warm seclusion phase using high-resolution numerical simulations and showed that intensification occurred in response to shallow low-level convergence below 850 hPa that was consistent with th...

TL;DR: In this article, a mesoscale numerical simulation of a well-observed gravity-wave event that occurred on 4 January 1994 along the East Coast of the United States is performed, showing clear evidence of strong imbalance associated with a middle-to-upper tropospheric jet streak, and tropopause fold upstream of the largeamplitude gravity wave several hours before the wave became apparent at the surface.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of 69 parallel forecasts performed at each of two horizontal grid increments with the Advanced Research Hurricane (AHW) component of the Weather and Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is evaluated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mesovortex was shown to play a critical role in determining the location of intense “straight-line” wind damage at the surface, where the perturbation pressure gradient force along the parcel path accelerated the horizontal winds; however, intense mesovortices modified the low level outflow and largely determined the locations where the strongest winds occurred.