Cumulus and cumulonimbus convection

F. H. Ludlam

doi:10.3402/tellusa.v18i4.9689

Cumulus and cumulonimbus convection

Tellus

Volume 18 (1966): Issue 4

By: F. H. Ludlam

Open Access

|Jan 1966

Abstract

It is proposed that certain characteristic stratifications accompany cumulus and cumulonimbus, and on the basis of a thermal theory characteristic magnitudes are estimated for the properties of their updraughts, and the size which must be attained by cumulus before showers form and their transformation into cumulonimbus occurs.

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