Abstract: Data from a wind profiler located at Darwin, Australia, have been used to examine the vertical motions and precipitation microphysics in a well-developed squall line. Both a mature and developing convective cell are well ...

Abstract: Continuous vertical velocity measurements using a 50-MHz wind profiler located at Darwin in northern Australia during periods of active convection have been analyzed. This dataset is dominated by continental-type convection. ...

Abstract: A technique is described that allows estimates of the raindrop size distribution to be obtained from the Doppler spectra measured by wind-profiling radars. The method makes no a priori assumptions regarding the shape of ...

Abstract: Recently, the authors observed significant echoes from precipitating ice particles above the freezing level in the stratiform region of tropical squall lines with a 50-MHz wind-profiling radar. A technique is described ...

Abstract: The advantages and disadvantages of single-frequency (50 MHz) and dual-frequency (50 and 915 MHz) wind profiler drop size distribution retrievals are discussed by comparing retrievals of median volume drop diameter and ...

Abstract: Drop-size distribution characteristics were retrieved in eight tropical mesoscale convective systems (MCS) using a dual-frequency (UHF and VHF) wind profiler technique. The MCSs occurred near Darwin, Australia, during the ...

Abstract: Two different frequency radar wind profilers (920 and 50 MHz) were used to retrieve rain rates from a long-lasting rainfall event observed near Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, during the 1993?94 wet season. In this ...