An Examination of the Rear-Inflow Jet Evolution Associated with an Idealized Mesoscale Convective System

This study documents the response of a mature mesoscale convective system's rear-inflow jet to environmental changes in the near-surface temperature profile (i.e., thermodynamic stability) and lower-tropospheric vertical wind shear (i.e., environmental forcing for ascent). The associated manuscript (Crossett and Evans 2020) is currently under review for publication in the Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

This repository contains Cloud Model version 1 (CM1; Bryan and Fritsch 2002, Monthly Weather Review) code, configuration namelist, and input sounding used to conduct all numerical simulations in this study. It also contains MATLAB and shell scripts used in the base-state sensitivity simulations, used to diagnose the rear-inflow jet's response to the environmental modifications described above, reported in the same manuscript. All files are included in the .tar.gz archive accompanying this record.

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