Abstract: Droplet size distributions have been examined in continental convective clouds observed on 9 days during the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment (CCOPE). Typically, the size at the large droplet peak in the ...

Abstract: The size-sorting patterns of hail trajectories are examined in regard to their potential for hail suppression through beneficial competition and the induced lowering of hail trajectories. The trajectories are computed ...

Abstract: Cloud air and clear air properties are analyzed to determine the altitude from where the entrained air originates. This is done using two parameters that are conserved with adiabatic altitude changes and that mix in a ...

Abstract: A new model for droplet growth by condensation is proposed which can produce a broad droplet size spectrum as well as local fluctuations in droplet number concentration and liquid water content. The model depends neither ...

Abstract: Aircraft data from a penetration through several young, nonprecipitating, continental cumulus turrets are examined. Fine-scale measurements, some of a new type, show that mixing is highly nonuniform during the active stages ...

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Abstract: Aircraft measurements in a vigorous, highly turbulent continental cumulus show predominantly bimodal and multiple peaked cloud droplet spectral shapes. The data are 100 m (1 s) averages. Three factors involved in the ...

Abstract: A storm in southeastern Wyoming was investigated by the NCAR/NOAA sailplane which spiraled up to 5.6 km above cloud base in and above a weak echo region. The updraft associated with the weak echo region was remarkably ...

Abstract: A systematic examination of cloud droplet size spectra from the Cooperative Convective Precipitation Experiment (CCOPE) reveals no tendency for an increase in the maximum droplet size with increasing dilution or cloud age.

Abstract: Expressions are derived for ice particle charges acquired through successive collisions in a changing electric field. Our computations give lower particle charges, slower maximum field growth rates, and higher maxium fields ...