Abstract
Abstract Top-down height tendency reasoning is explained and examined. This approach uses the assumption of a stratospheric level of insignificant dynamics (LID)—where height and pressure tendencies are considered negligible—to simplify the understanding of cyclone-scale hydrostatic height (pressure) tendency in the troposphere. Quasigeostrophic analytic model results confirm the existence of such a LID for scales less than approximately 5000 km. An examination of a height tendency equation with the LID assumption shows that there must be net integrated local warming (cooling) between the LID and any level below the LID where heights are falling (rising). The local temperature tendency, which from the thermodynamic equation results from advection, diabatic heating, and the product of vertical motion and static stability, reflects the combined actions of all thermodynamic and dynamic processes that together promote hydrostatic height change in isobaric coordinates. In particular, the important dynamic effe...
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