Abstract: Aircraft measurements at low- and mid-cloud levels near two isolated and persistent Great Plains thunderstorms concurrently scanned by radar are analyzed to determine the kinematic properties of the near-cloud air flow, ...

Abstract: In typical squall-line situations wherein the wind veers strongly with height, individual convective storms move as much as 60 deg right or 30 deg left of the direction of the mean wind in the cloud layer. It is shown that, ...

Abstract: Aircraft distance-measuring-equipment (DME) data are used to update position, velocity, and wind measurements from inertial navigation systems (INS) measurements. Data from conventional single-channel DME sets, suitably ...

Abstract: The evolution of the vertical mass flux in isolated cumulus and cumulus congestus clouds is documented using two King Airs during the Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment (CaPE,), conducted in east-central ...

Abstract: Perturbation pressure fields are measured by aircraft around the cloud base updrafts of seven clouds ranging in size from weak cumulus congestus to intense cumulonimbus during CCOPE (1981). The fields are characterized by ...

Abstract: An analysis of the seeding operations during the National Hail Research Experiment 1972?74 randomized seeding program is carried out for the purpose of critiquing the seeding procedures and establishing the actual rates ...

Abstract: The initiation of thunderstorms is examined through a combined observational and modeling case study. The study is based on Doppler radar, aircraft, mesonet, balloon sounding, and profiler and photographic data from the ...