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Figure 4.53. Material circuit in the horizontal plane, around a low-level mesocyclone in a
numerical simulation of a supercell traced back from when it was well defined at 90min (from
storm initiation) to 15min earlier. It is seen that some of the circuit, whose enclosed area
decreased with time, came from the region outside the storm to the southeast and some came
from a vertical plane to the north, within the storm. The circulation north of the storm was
produced baroclinically and then tilted downward by a downdraft (from Rotunno and Klemp,
1985).
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