RASP Mendocino Mt. (CA) Convergence - 10 May 2005
Animation of Maximum Vertical Velocity in BL
Flow above BL is approximately NW
RASP Grid resolution = 1.3 km
Topography resolution = 4 km

Note very long convergence line forming early in the day on the downwind slope of the Mendocinos.  Later in the day it tends to move down the slope to the valley floor and become broken, with some new (and shorter) convergence lines forming in a direction perpendicular to the original line, roughly paralleling the flow.  The line is more contiguous than would actually occur because the terrain has been purposely smoothed to produce a better "signal".

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