Mesoscale areas of cloud dissolution within frontal cloud bands driven by sinking cold air on the anticyclonic side of a jet streak.
Common Remarks
This conceptual model "Front Decay" describes a mesoscale dissipation of clouds within a Cold Front.
There are already CM's which deal with the dissipation of frontal clouds like
Cold Front In Cold Advection
or
Cold Front In Warm Advection
. Those CM's describe a possible dissipation of the whole frontal cloud band.
Front decay can also be caused by other processes such as deformation (elongation) of the frontal cloud band. Often "Front Decay" happens during the development of the CM of Rapid Cyclogenesis
I. Cloud Structure In Satellite Images
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II. Meteorological Physical Background
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III. Key Parameters
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IV. Typical Appearance In Vertical Cross Sections
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V. Weather Events
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VI. References
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