This study focuses upon the mechanisms by which mountains and synoptic weather systems interact to produce characteristic orographic cloud systems. In each of the three case studies, a synoptic cloud component, an orographic cloud component, and a convective cloud component were identified through the analysis of rawinsonde data, vertically pointing radar data, and visual observations.

By combining surface, satellite, radar, and photographic data each scale of cyclone is investigated with emphasis on determining mechanisms by which they intensify or evolve, especially through scale interactions.

A review of observed and theoretical raindrop distributions is presented.

This paper discusses the observational evidence for and the probable causes of the large diurnal variability of the atmosphere over the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) region of the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean.

Recent observational studies of upper-tropospheric and lower-stratospheric winds atop mesoscale convective systems show the development of anticyclonic outflow....As the magnitude of the anticyclone increases, the inertial stability of the system is reduced, resulting in a decreased partitioning of the initial available potential energy to the balanced state of the system.

A study of ozone chemistry and meteorological processes occurring in the eastern North Pacific stratocumulus regime. This climatological regime is characterized by widespread, persistent low cloud and an air history that does not include contact with continents for many days. Since both ozone and important in the earth-atmosphere energy balance, the processes studied here are important in the system interactions that govern climate.

Numerical modelling studies of continental tropical and maritime tropical convection were conducted using a two-dimensional, non-hydrostatic, cloud electrification model.

The divergence of net radiation in a tropical atmosphere with cirrus clouds has been examined in terms of two bulk radiative properties of the cloud: shortwave thickness and broad-band infrared emissivity.