Fiscal Year	2010
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Meteorology
Investigator(s)	Montgomery, Michael T.
Sponsor	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Summary	Recent theoretical and observational studies have shown that, in the presence of baroclinity, a cyclonic vortex form and intensify via the synergetic interaction of cloud diabatic processes and the flow field associated with the cyclone itself. The resulting disturbance, termed a diabatic Rossby vortex (DRV), has been linked to a wide variety of atmospheric phenomena, all of which can spawn severe weather. It is therefore of great concern that these diabatically-dominated disturbances exhibit an alarming lack of predictability.
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