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Detailed observations of clouds and precipitation within extra-tropical cyclones reveal a startling variety of mesoscale bands. While some of these features are clearly associated with frontal circulations, others occur away from fronts and thus appear to require different theoretical explanations. A number of such theories are here reviewed with particular emphasis on the theory of symmetric instability, and a case study of a band possibly associated with symmetric instability is presented.
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Emanuel, K.A. (1983). Conditional Symmetric Instability: A Theory for Rainbands within Extratropical Cyclones. In: Lilly, D.K., Gal-Chen, T. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology — Theories, Observations and Models. NATO ASI Series, vol 114. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2241-4_12
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