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Dr. Newton has discussed the effect of the environmental wind field on cloud growth. We shall confine ourselves to considering the effect of the low level synoptic-scale convergence field, which appears to be important in many cases.
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Malkus, J.S., Williams, R.T. (1963). On the Interaction between Severe Storms and Large Cumulus Clouds. In: Severe Local Storms. Meteorological Monographs, vol 5. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-56-3_3
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