Abstract: Two-dimensional images of ice particles observed by a NOAA WP-3D research aircraft during the Summer Monsoon Experiment (SMONEX) are examined. These images were obtained in the temperature interval from ?25° to 0°C. The ...

Abstract: A squall-line cloud cluster observed in the Global Atmospheric Research Program's Atlantic Tropical Experiment (GATE) is studied as an example of a mesoscale convective system in the tropics. The system is divided into ...

Abstract: An objective analysis technique is applied to the time-composite wind and thermodynamic fields of the 12 September GATE tropical squall line. Previous subjective analyses described by Gamache and Houze are confirmed and ...

Abstract: Composites of radar and wind observations in a coordinate system attached to a moving tropical squall line confirm that such a squall system is composed of two separate circulation features: a convective squall-line region ...

Abstract: The hydrometeor water budget of Hurricane Norbert on 24 September 1984 is computed using two micro- physical retrieval techniques. Three-dimensional distributions of condensation, evaporation, precipitation, and advection ...

Abstract: On 24?25 September 1984 air motions and physical processes in the eyewall region of Hurricane Norbert were investigated with two National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) WP-3D ...

Abstract: The structure and evolution of rapidly intensifying Hurricane Guillermo (1997) is examined using airborne Doppler radar observations. In this first part, the low-azimuthal-wavenumber component of the vortex is presented. ...

Abstract: Three different airborne Doppler radar sampling strategies were tested in Hurricane Gustav (1990) on 29 August 1990. The two new strategies were the fore-aft scanning technique (FAST) and airborne dual-platform Doppler ...

Abstract: A set of equations for diagnosing the properties of precipitating clouds over a tropical ocean is developed by postulating a population of model clouds in which the vertical motions consist of convective up-drafts and ...

Abstract: The asymmetric dynamics of the hurricane inner-core region is examined through a novel analysis of high temporal resolution, three-dimensional wind fields derived from airborne dual-Doppler radar. Seven consecutive composites ...