Inertial instability and mesoscale convective systems. Part II: symmetric CISK in a baroclinic flow.

Abstract

Numerous budget studies of organized persistent systems of convective clouds outside the tropics suggest that circulations of mesoscale proportions are important in supplying moisture to the convective clouds, though the dynamical nature of mesoscale flows remains poorly defined. The results of Part I are here extended to include the effects of latent heat release in a conditionally unstable atmosphere, using the formalism of the CISK approach.- from Author