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September 27, 2025Monthly Weather Review

A study of convection initiation over steep terrain under weak synoptic forcing: From kilometer-scale to hectometer-scale simulations

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MZMengke ZhangJLJian LiNLNina Li

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Simulations improve understanding of convection initiation in mountainous regions, highlighting steep terrain's impact.

Key Points

  • Hectometer-scale simulation captures convection processes better than kilometer-scale models, enhancing predictions.
  • Convection event initiation shifts southward with increased model resolution, indicating terrain's influence.
  • Low-level winds transitioned from divergence to convergence, enhancing instability before convection initiation.
  • Steep topography of Cang Mountain crucially enhances updrafts, favoring convection initiation in complex terrain.

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Zhang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d7cc6aeebfec0fc5238d35https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-24-0226.1
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