Abstract: A Queen Air, instrumented to make 1-Hz measurements of the kinematic, dynamic, and thermodynamic fields, and radar, mesonet, and soundings from the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment 1981 is used to monitor ...

Abstract: The global positioning system dropwindsondes deployed in Hurricane Bonnie on 26 August 1998 with supporting deployments in Hurricanes Mitch (1998) and Humberto (2001) are used to identify three unusual thermodynamic ...

Abstract: n 2001, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Aeronautical and Space Administration marshaled their resources to sample Hurricane Humberto for 3 successive days during the fourth Convection ...

Abstract: Over 4.5 days, NOAA and U.S. Air Force personnel in reconnaissance aircraft deployed 44 global positioning system dropwindsondes (GPS sondes) in the eye of Hurricane Lili (2002). The vertical profiles derived from these ...

Abstract: The evolution of the wind field beyond the radius of maximum winds is studied for 18 Atlantic tropical cyclones (TCs) with 989 research and reconnaissance flight legs. Inner core strength, defined as the storm relative ...

Abstract: During 11 h on 26 August 1998, two NOAA WP-3D aircraft deployed 85 Global Positioning System (GPS) dropwindsondes within 2° of latitude of the circulation center of Hurricane Bonnie as it made landfall in North Carolina. ...

Abstract: From 0600 UTC 2 August to 1200 UTC 3 August Hurricane Guillermo (1997) deepened by 54 hPa over the eastern North Pacific Ocean, easily exceeding the thresholds that define rapid intensification (RI). The NOAA WP-3Ds observed ...

Abstract: The thermodynamic modification of the subcloud layer in the GATE area is shown to be a function of precipitating convection. A critical rate of 2 mm h?1, based on the Z ? R relationship, in conjunction with 4 km ? 4 km ...

Abstract: t 0600 UTC 22 September 2001, Humberto was a tropical depression with a minimum central pressure of 1010 hPa. Twelve hours later, when the first global positioning system dropwindsondes (GPS sondes) were jettisoned, ...

Abstract: Heavy rain events (>100 mm day?1) over the southeast flank of Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii are examined using surface, rawinsonde, rain gauge, and satellite data. The events occur in the presence of four types ...