Research on above anvil cirrus plumes

New 30 meter isotropic simulation focusing on the overshooting top and anvil region during the first 40 minutes of storm evolution

“Icy Plumes!” on NSF’s The Discovery Files

Supercell storm clouds act like atmospheric mountains (Science)

Link to O’Neill et al AMS 2020 poster: “Hydraulic Jump Dynamics in an Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume in a 50-m Resolution Simulated Supercell”

Supercell Thunderstorms Shake Up the Stratosphere
Recent department seminar given by Dr. Leigh Orf
Recent department seminar given by Dr. Morgan O’Neill

UW-Madison press release
Stanford University press release

Selected references with links:

Smith, J. B., 2021: Convective hydration of the stratosphere. Science, 373, 1194–1195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abl8740

O’Neill, M. E., L. Orf, G. M. Heymsfield, and K. Halbert, 2021: Hydraulic jump dynamics above supercell thunderstorms. Science, 373, 1248–1251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abh3857

Bedka, K., E. M. Murillo, C. R. Homeyer, B. Scarino, and H. Mersiovsky, 2018: The Above-Anvil Cirrus Plume: An Important Severe Weather Indicator in Visible and Infrared Satellite Imagery. Weather Forecast., 33, 1159–1181. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-18-0040.1

Homeyer, C. R., J. D. McAuliffe, and K. M. Bedka, 2017: On the Development of Above-Anvil Cirrus Plumes in Extratropical Convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 74, 1617–1633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0269.1

Fujita, T., 1974: OVERSHOOTING THUNDERHEADS OBSERVED FROM ATS AND LEARJET. SMRP, 117. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19740018973

Long, R. R., 1954: Some Aspects of the Flow of Stratified Fluids: II. Experiments with a Two-Fluid System. Tell’Us, 6, 97–115. https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v6i2.8731

Wang, P. K., 2003: Moisture plumes above thunderstorm anvils and their contributions to cross‐tropopause transport of water vapor in midlatitudes. J. Geophys. Res., 108, https://doi.org/10.1029/2002jd002581.