Abstract: Vertical velocity and temperature spectra from the 1978 Phoenix convective boundary layer aircraft flights are discussed. Both the vertical velocity spectra and the temperature spectra are normalized using procedures which ...

Abstract: A generalized set of conventions for facilitating analysis of mesoscale boundaries is proposed, and an example of the utility of the new conventions is presented.

Abstract: Over-the-horizon (OTH) radar observations of surface wind direction offer a high-resolution (15 km) resource for synoptic and mesoscale wind field analysis. With horizontal resolution at the lower end of the mesoscale and ...

Abstract: The viability of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) as a tool for finescale marine meteorological surface analyses of synoptic-scale fronts is demonstrated. In particular, it is shown that SAR can reveal the presence of, and ...

Abstract: Satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers the potential for remotely sensing surface wind speed both over the open sea and in close proximity to the coast. The resolution improvement of SAR over scatterometers ...

Abstract: Two distinct backscatter regimes are seen on a European remote sensing satellite ERS-1 C-band (5.6 cm) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of the sea surface during a time of fair synoptic-scale weather conditions. One ...

Abstract: his paper describes the development and testing of a cloud-regime-dependent short-range solar irradiance forecasting system for predictions of 15-min-average clearness index (global horizontal irradiance). This regime-dependent ...