Research Article

Analysis of Convective Thunderstorm Split Cells in South-Eastern Romania

Figure 2

Tiling of the horizontal vorticity due to updraft (a). Negative vorticity maxima (on the left of shear) and positive vorticity maxima (on the right of shear) and (b) the convective cell split in two other cells with opposite vorticity (from Lin 2007, adapted by Klemp 1987, and from Rotuno 1981).
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