Abstract: The economical importance of the winter snowpack to the Colorado Rocky Mountain region (e.g., weather modification potential, ski industry, avalanche prediction, snow removal, etc.) calls for an understanding of how the ...

Abstract: The build 9 Weather Surveillance Radar-1988/Doppler mesocyclone algorithm (B9MA) is designed to locate mesocyclones [rotating thunderstorm updrafts with diameters between 1.8 and 9.2 km (1?5 n mi)]. Because there is less ...

Abstract: A rule-based expert system has been developed to assist military weather forecasters in the prediction of thunderstorms. The knowledge base used by the Thunderstorm Intelligence Prediction System (TIPS) was built by using ...

Abstract: A tornado outbreak occurred in east-central Minnesota around 0000 UTC 22 July 1995, within 80 km of the KMPX WSR-88D, at the Minneapolis?Chanhassen Weather Service Forecast Office (WSFO). The WSR-88D Mesocyclone/Tornadic ...

Abstract: For the first time since the installation of the national network of Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D), a new scanning strategy?Volume Coverage Pattern 12 (VCP 12)?has been added to the suite of scanning ...

Abstract: AbstractClear-air Bragg scatter (CABS) is a refractivity gradient return generated by turbulent eddies that operational Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) systems can detect. The randomly oriented nature of ...

Abstract: AbstractStudies have shown that echo returns from clear-air Bragg scatter (CABS) can be used to detect the height of the convective boundary layer and to assess the systematic differential reflectivity (ZDR) bias for a ...