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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-695-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-695-2021
Research article
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03 Aug 2021
Research article |  | 03 Aug 2021

Relative importance of tropopause structure and diabatic heating for baroclinic instability

Kristine Flacké Haualand and Thomas Spengler

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Given the recent focus on the influence of upper tropospheric structure in wind and temperature on midlatitude weather, we use an idealised model to investigate how structural modifications impact cyclone development. We find that cyclone intensification is less sensitive to these modifications than to changes in the amount of cloud condensation, suggesting that an accurate representation of the upper-level troposphere is less important for midlatitude weather than previously anticipated.
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