Tropopause folding?

[Jared Farrer]

I wanted to first ask some of the more seasoned meteorolgists on here their thoughts and what this is exactly and what it means in both an operational sense and from a severe weather sense?

 

[rdale]

That's really not something that can be answered in a paragraph... You'll likely want a met textbook to get an explanation of value.

Here are some resources:http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~dkuhl/documents/Kuhl_Tropopause_Folding.ppt
<cite>Carlson's Mid-Latitude Weather Systems has a good section with some online:

http://books.google.com/books?id=2lIVAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA431&lpg=PA431&dq=tropopause+fold&source=bl&ots=zS3AG3IW2h&sig=HvUQcGe6mv6PFMT2imHBDOVTitw&hl=en&ei=lsAIS96PK4T_nAf5__THCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CDcQ6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=tropopause%20fold&f=false
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