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As a result of taking instantaneous cape and capes at discrete steps the EFI can exhibit a stripy structure in a case of fast moving squall fronts as in the example in Fig ... . Apparently this is an issue because the cold front is not jumping rather, it is moving continuously from the west to the east. Replacing cape and capes with mxcape6 and mxcapes6 removes the stripy behaviour and provides a smoother and more realistic forecast field due to better sampling.
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