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Cloud Instability

Cloud Instability is a dynamical meteorological phenomenon characterized by the spontaneous growth of perturbations within cloud systems due to buoyancy-driven processes that disrupt hydrostatic equilibrium.

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142

Boyle's Law and Gravitational Instability

W. B. Bonnar · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1956 · 912 citations · Full text

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Storm and cloud dynamics

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 594 citations

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The cavitation instability induced by the development of a re-entrant jet

Mathieu Callenaere, Jean-Pierre Franc, Jean-Marie Michel et al. · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 2001 · 456 citations · Full text

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Conditional Instability of the First Kind Upside-Down

David A. Randall · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1980 · 356 citations · Full text

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Cloud Top Entrainment Instability

J. W. Deardorff · Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · 1980 · 321 citations · Full text

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Authors

402

  1. DA
    David A. Randall

    Colorado State University, United States

    5 publications · 634 citations

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  2. WW
    Wojciech W. Grabowski

    NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States

    4 publications · 270 citations

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  3. CS
    Christopher S. Bretherton

    University of Washington, United States

    4 publications · 222 citations

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  4. RB
    Robert Breidenthal

    University of Washington, United States

    3 publications · 174 citations

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  5. ST
    S. T. Zalesak

    United States Naval Research Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 81 citations

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Institutions

154

  1. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    6 h-index

    9 publications

    545 citations

  2. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

    Boulder, United States

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    815 citations

  3. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    515 citations

  4. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    437 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    831 citations

  6. Los Alamos National Laboratory

    Los Alamos, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    204 citations

  7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    473 citations

  8. High Energy Accelerator Research Organization

    Tsukuba, Japan

    3 h-index

    51 publications

    1K citations

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  1. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    35 publications · 2.4K citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 13 publications · 745 citations

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  5. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 4 publications · 101 citations

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