Abstract: The advent of Doppler clear-air radars for wind-height profiling opens the way for their use in a variety of other applications. This paper uses knowledge of the clear-air Doppler spectrum from a zenith-pointing radar ...

Abstract: A new technique is examined for using Doppler radars to extract information about the size spectrum of cloud droplets too small to have terminal velocities large enough to be resolvable by the radar. If the drops are very ...

Abstract: Seven times in a year's continuous observations, marked oscillations with periods from 5 to 15 minutes were simultaneously recorded on a barograph and a damped anemometer located at La Jolla, California. The oscillations ...

Abstract: Two theoretical models of shear layers in the atmosphere are examined. The conditions for their dynamic stability are found and their predictions of wavelength to layer-thickness ratio are compared with classical models ...

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Abstract: The relationship between the variances of temperature and vertical velocity fluctuations is examined experimentally and theoretically. Comparison of the variance data and the mean gradient data recorded on the 300 m tower ...

Abstract: The dynamic instability and the kinematics of a multi-layer, shear model of a convective boundary layer are analyzed. Important features of the model include a capping temperature inversion that may or may not be accompanied ...

Abstract: A model having smooth wind and density profiles, for which a new solution of the Taylor-Goldstein equation can be found, is described. This model is particularly suitable for comparison with the analogous piecewise linear ...

Abstract: When long-wavelength radars are used to observe the atmosphere, there are occasions when radar return from a volume of cloud is unexpectedly large relative to that predicted by the classical incoherent scatter from individual ...

Abstract: Bragg backscatter of radar waves from elevated turbulent layers is very highly correlated with the height profile of the gradient of radio refractive index through elevated turbulent layers, as has often been documented ...