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Most severe convective events are associated with convection arising from a convectively unstable boundary layer. This basic association has resulted in a near absence of research done on other types of convection, one such type being elevated convection; which, in a broad sense, will be defined here as convection that occurs above a convectively stable boundary layer. It is important to realize that in this type of convection no inflow air for the storm originates in the boundary layer, but rather has a source of convectively unstable air aloft.
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Colman, B. (1983). A Case Study of Elevated Convection in an Unsaturated Large-Scale Environment. 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_29
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