CAPE
In an unstable environment, the temperature of rising air can be traced and compared to the vertical profile of the environmental temperature.
CAPE - Convective Available Potential Energy. A measure of the amount of energy available for convection.
CAPE - Abbreviation for convective available potential energy.
CAPPI - (Abbreviation for constant-altitude plan position indicator.) A composite radar display constructed by assembling radar data from many PPIs at successive elevation angles ...
CAPE VERDE ISLANDS
A group of volcanic islands in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa. A Cape Verde hurricane originates near here.
CAPE An acronym for Convective Available Potential Energy.
Capillary Fringe The soil area just above the water table where water can rise up slightly through the cohesive force of capillary action.
CAPE - Convective Available Potential Energy. The amount of energy that is used by thunderstorms to create the updraft; similarly positive buoyant energy (PBE).
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Convective Available Potential Energy. A measure of the amount of energy available for convection.
CAPE: An acronym for Convective Available Potential Energy. See Convective Available Potential Energy.
CAPE During the thunderstorm season in Minnesota, you may occasionally hear meteorologists use the term CAPE values. What does that mean? CAPE is an acronym, as is often the case with the National Weather Service.
CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) - a measure of the amount of energy available for convection.
Mean Layer CAPE - CAPE calculated using a parcel consisting of Mean Layer values of temperature and moisture from the lowest 100 mb above ground level. See Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE).
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(This area sometimes is called negative area.) See CAPE.CIOChief Information OfficerCirculationThe flow, or movement, of a fluid (e.g., water or air) in or through a given area or volume.
Severe supercell development is most likely in an environment possessing great buoyancy (CAPE) and large vertical wind shear. A Bulk Richardson Number of between 15 and 35 favor supercell development.
It also does not require that the energy released from latent heating (CAPE) be greater than the convective inhibition (CIN) required to bring the parcel to its level of free convection. 2.
>> Single-cell showers: the 'classic' growth/decay model of a Cumulus cloud , whereby a single moist convective cell develops in an airmass that is moderately unstable (CAPE values ~ 100 J/kg), ...
Bulk Richardson Number (BRN): It is the ratio of the buoyancy (CAPE) of a lifted parcel to the vertical wind shear of the environment in which the parcel is lifted.
Doctor 1. A cooling sea breeze in the Tropics. 2. See HARMATTAN. 3. The strong SE wind which blows on the south African coast. Usually called CAPE DOCTOR.
THERMODYNAMICS- In reference to the (in)stability of the atmosphere. Important thermodynamic information includes lapse rates, CAPE, changes in temperature / moisture with height, and cap strength.
THERMODYNAMICS- In reference to the (in)stability and other thermodynamic factors of the atmosphere. Important thermodynamic information includes lapse rates, CAPE, changes in temperature / moisture with height, and cap strength.
An index that incorporates vertical shear and instability, designed for the purpose of forecasting supercell thunderstorms. It is related directly to storm-relative helicity in the lowest 2 km (SRH, in mē/sē) and CAPE (in J/kg) as follows: ...
Convective inhibition (CIN or CINH) is a meteorlogic parameter that measures the amount of energy that will prevent an air parcel from rising from the surface to the level of free convection. Conceptually, it is the opposite of CAPE.
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