Abstract: The response function is a commonly used measure of analysis scheme properties. Its use in the interpretation of analyses of real-valued data, however, is unnecessarily complicated by the structure of the standard form of ...

Abstract: espite great strides in understanding the tornadic near-storm environment (NSE), at times it remains difficult to determine why some storms produce significant tornadoes, while others produce none, given similar pretornadic ...

Abstract: Spatial objective analysis is routinely performed in several applications that utilize radar data. Because of their relative simplicity and computational efficiency, one-pass distance-dependent weighted-average (DDWA) ...

Abstract: Distance-dependent weighted averaging (DDWA) is a process that is fundamental to most of the objective analysis schemes that are used in meteorology. Despite its ubiquity, aspects of its effects are still poorly understood. ...

Abstract: dealized simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) were performed to examine the role of capping inversions on the near-surface thermodynamic structure of outflow from simulated supercells. Two ...

Abstract: AbstractTwo accepted postulates for applications of ground-based weather radars are that Earth?s surface is a perfect sphere and that all the rays launched at low-elevation angles have the same constant small curvature. ...

Abstract: Various combinations of smoothing parameters within a two-pass Barnes objective analysis scheme are applied to analytic observations obtained by regular and irregular sampling of a one-dimensional sinusoidal analytic wave ...