A NEW METHOD FOR COMPUTING INSTABILITY ENERGY AND ITS USE

In this paper a new method for computing instability energy E is proposed. The main difference between this method and the method currently used is that it does not require entire sounding data except geopotential height of each level. Thus, E can be computed with data on isobaric charts. This method brings snore convenience to the computation of E by manual method or by a computer. It is useful to the forecasting of severe convective weather and heavy rainfall.