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Frontal Cloud Formation

Frontal Cloud Formation is a meteorological phenomenon constituting a specific type of cloud development that occurs when warm and cold air masses converge along a frontal boundary, distinguished by the systematic lifting of warm air over a denser cold air mass, leading to adiabatic cooling, condensation, and the formation of stratiform or nimboform cloud systems.

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Orographic effects on precipitating clouds

Robert A. Houze · Reviews of Geophysics · 2011 · 951 citations · Full text

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Validation and Sensitivities of Frontal Clouds Simulated by the ECMWF Model

Stephen A. Klein, Christian Jakob · Monthly Weather Review · 1999 · 438 citations

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Structure of a frontal cyclone

K. A. Browning, N M Roberts · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 1994 · 207 citations

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Simulations of midlatitude frontal clouds by single‐column and cloud‐resolving models during the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement March 2000 cloud intensive operational period

Shaocheng Xie, Minghua Zhang, Mark Branson et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2005 · 119 citations · Full text

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A Model-aided Study of the Origin and Evolution of the Anomalously High Potential vorticity in the Inner Region of a Rapidly Deepening Marine Cyclone

Richard J. Reed, Mark T. Stoelinga, Ying‐Hwa Kuo · Monthly Weather Review · 1992 · 118 citations · Full text

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    T. Akiyama

    Meteorological Research Institute

    3 publications · 124 citations

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    Ulrike Lohmann

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    3 publications · 223 citations

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  3. AD
    Anthony D. Del Genio

    Goddard Institute for Space Studies, United States

    3 publications · 207 citations

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  4. SA
    Stephen A. Klein

    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States

    3 publications · 622 citations

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  5. RA
    Robert A. Houze

    University of Washington, United States

    2 publications · 1K citations

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  1. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    1.4K citations

  2. Meteorological Research Institute

    Tsukuba, Japan

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    206 citations

  3. Goddard Institute for Space Studies

    New York, United States

    4 h-index

    10 publications

    570 citations

  4. Met Office

    Exeter, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    299 citations

  5. Dalhousie University

    Halifax, Canada

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    407 citations

  6. China Meteorological Administration

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    8 publications

    249 citations

  7. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    520 citations

  8. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    Livermore, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    671 citations

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  1. Monthly Weather Review

    10 publications · 755 citations

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  4. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

    JGR · 3 publications · 268 citations

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  5. Journal of Climate

    2 publications · 39 citations

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