Abstract: The character of cloud-to-ground lightning is examined during the life cycle of a distinct mesoscale segment of the 10?11 June 1985 mesoscale convective system (MCS). Three phases of lightning activity are identified and ...

Abstract: Investigations of the structure and organization of synoptic-scale storms over the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range during two successive winters (1971?73) were made with a modified B-26 aircraft. Measurements of liquid water ...

Abstract: Recent deployments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-8 and -9) include full-time 3.9-?m imaging capabilities. This shortwave (near infrared) ...

Abstract: Ship-based measurements in June 1994 provided information about ship-track clouds and associated atmospheric environment observed from below cloud levels that provide a perspective different from satellite and aircraft ...

Abstract: The physical and radiative properties of a composite ship track are described from the analysis of 131 ship?ship track correlation pairs collected during the Monterey Area Ship Track experiment. The significant variability ...

Abstract: The authors investigate the extent to which the contrast brightness of ship tracks, that is, the relative change in observed solar reflectance, in visible and near-infrared imagery can be explained by the microphysics of ...

Abstract: The 1-km advanced very high resolution radiometer observations from the morning, NOAA-12, and afternoon, NOAA-11, satellite passes over the coast of California during June 1994 are used to determine the altitudes, visible ...

Abstract: Anomalously high reflectivity tracks in stratus and stratocumulus sheets associated with ships (known as ship tracks) are commonly seen in visible and near-infrared satellite imagery. Until now there have been only a limited ...