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Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1299-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-5-1299-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 5, issue 4
Review article
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24 Oct 2024
Review article |  | 24 Oct 2024

The importance of diabatic processes for the dynamics of synoptic-scale extratropical weather systems – a review

Heini Wernli and Suzanne L. Gray

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The science of extratropical dynamics has reached a new level where the interplay of dry dynamics with effects of latent heating in clouds and other diabatic processes is considered central to the field. This review documents how research about the role of diabatic processes evolved over more than a century; it highlights that progress relied essentially on the integration of theory, field campaigns, novel diagnostics, and numerical modelling, and it outlines avenues for future research.
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