Billow clouds

✍ Scribed by R. S. Scorer

• Book ID: 104570813
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1951
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 347 KB
• Volume: 77
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9009
• DOI: 10.1002/qj.49707733208

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The difficulties of deducing a formula for the dimensions or spacing of cloudlets on the assumption that they are convection cells or unstable waves are discussed. The formula

where h is the depth of the statically unstable layer is then deduced for billow clouds of a particular type, on the assumption that they consist of parallel rows of rotating masses of air moving with the mean wind of a shearing layer and sandwiched between stable wave motions above and below.