Abstract: The growth of hailstones is studied using a one-dimensional non-steady-state model of a growing feeder cloud. Conditions within the mature cloud are assumed to be adiabatic. Vertical velocity and liquid water content ...

Abstract: The microphysical, thermodynamic and vertical air motion characteristics of a hailstorm which occurred in northeast Colorado were investigated through penetrations by the T-28 research aircraft. On the basis of these ...

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Abstract: A new technique for reducing data obtained from a foil impactor carried on the T-28 thunderstorm penetration aircraft is described. The technique employs a video image processing system that was originally developed for ...

Abstract: The characteristics of the so-called ?radar-identified big drop zones? (rBDZ) have been investigated. The study employs radar observations of several thunderstorms and simultaneous microphysical and vertical wind measurements ...

Abstract: Microphysical measurements in and near the weak echo region of a supercell thunderstorm are discussed. The observations were made in southeastern Montana with an armored T-28 aircraft, which has the capability to measure ...

Abstract: Various procedures for inferring hydrometeor characteristics from polarimetric radar data have indicated that regions with echoes exhibiting relatively high linear depolarization ratios along with relatively low differential ...

Abstract: Observations made by the T-28 armored research aircraft, radar, and other data sources were used to study an eastern Moutana hailstorm that developed on 1 August 1981 during the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment ...

Abstract: This study investigates some of the characteristics or the interior regions of several hailstorms penetrated by the armored T-28 aircraft during the 1981 CCOPE field project. The vertical wind data were analyzed to identify ...