Abstract: Supersonic transport (SST) fuel consumption is very sensitive to ambient temperatures in the region of climb from 25,000 to 52,000 ft within 200 n mi and 20 min of takeoff. It has been suggested in the literature that ...

Abstract: Data from a 10-site mesoscale rawinsonde network are used to document a number of features in the wind field in a mature cyclone of moderate intensity. The general nature of, and some particular phenomena in, the mesoscale ...

Abstract: This paper outlines a mesoscale forecast system that could he implemented within a few years in spite of relatively sparse direct observations. Methods are discussed of using satellite information on large mesoscale features ...

Abstract: The Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic (ERICA) field study is designed to determine physical mechanisms and processes, and their critical spatial and temporal combinations, which can account for ...

Abstract: Before high-resolution numerical models can be of use operationally, they must be restricted to a limited domain, thus necessitating lateral boundary conditions which allow the changes outside the limited domain to influence ...

Abstract: Distinct airstreams, separated by sharp boundaries, are present in numerical weather simulations and can be used to identify characteristic structures in baroclinic storms. To allow objective comparisons between different ...

Abstract: Precipitation systems within a mature extratropical cyclone are related to the mesoscale thermal and circulation fields aloft using data from Project Stormy Spring conducted by the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories. ...

Abstract: The release of potential instability by large-scale lifting and the subsequent interaction of cumulus convection and the hydrostatic mesoscale flow in a most complex scale-interaction process. This process is an essential ...

Abstract: In Part I the convective processes important during the release of potential instability were described qualitatively and evaluated quantitatively in a parameterized cumulus model within a primitive equation model. Part ...

Abstract: Newspapers, television, and newsweeklies contained numerous articles proclaiming drought conditions during 1980 and 1981. This study investigates the causes and consequences of the drought as it affected eastern Pennsylvania. ...