Abstract: Radar altimeter and inertial wind velocity measurements from the NCAR Sabreliner research aircraft are combined with Defense Mapping Agency high-resolution (?1 km) digital terrain height maps to obtain height analyses and ...

Abstract: High sample rate aircraft data in a zone of moderate turbulence are analyzed to determine a turbulent energy budget. Combination of the Reynolds stress, buoyancy, and frictional dissipation terms produces a good balance. ...

Abstract: A series of aircraft penetrations into clear air turbulence zones within upper level fronts is presented. Heat and momentum diffusivities am estimated with a view toward obtaining more realistic parameterizations for ...

Abstract: Radar altimeter and inertial navigation wind velocity measurements from research aircraft are shown to give the ageostrophic wind velocity distribution within a jet stream system near the tropopause. Results from one case ...

Abstract: Analysis is presented of data obtained from instrumented aircraft flying in a mountain wave of moderate amplitude west of Denver, Colo., on 17 February 1970. Emphasis is placed on determination of the downward flux of ...

Abstract: Two direct observations of wave motion associated with fronts by well instrumented meteorological research aircraft are presented. Wave cloud photographs corroborate the analysis of the temperature and three-dimensional ...

Abstract: The soils data of Wilson and Henderson-Sellers have been incorporated into the land-surface parameterization scheme of the NCAR Community Climate Model after Dickinson. A stand-alone version of this land-surface scheme, ...

Abstract: The aeronautical use of electronic altimeters is to measure the absolute clearance of an aircraft above the earth's surface. In the support of atmospheric research, accurate high-range altimeters, in conjunction with ...