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Rayleigh convective instability in a cloud medium

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The problem of convective instability of an atmospheric layer containing a horizontally finite region filled with a cloud medium is considered. Solutions exponentially growing with time, i.e., solitary cloud rolls or spatially localized systems of cloud rolls, have been constructed. In the case of axial symmetry, their analogs are convective vortices with both ascending and descending motions on the axis and cloud clusters with ring-shaped convective structures. Depending on the anisotropy of turbulent exchange, the scale of vortices changes from the tornado scale to the scale of tropical cyclones. The solutions with descending motions on the axis can correspond to the formation of a tornado funnel or a hurricane eye in tropical cyclones.

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Original Russian Text © B.Ya. Shmerlin, M.B. Shmerlin, 2017, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2017, Vol. 152, No. 3, pp. 589–606.

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Shmerlin, B.Y., Shmerlin, M.B. Rayleigh convective instability in a cloud medium. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 125, 502–517 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776117080180

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