Abstract: Radar altimeter and inertial wind velocity measurements from the NCAR Sabreliner research aircraft are combined with Defense Mapping Agency high-resolution (?1 km) digital terrain height maps to obtain height analyses and ...

Abstract: High sample rate aircraft data in a zone of moderate turbulence are analyzed to determine a turbulent energy budget. Combination of the Reynolds stress, buoyancy, and frictional dissipation terms produces a good balance. ...

Abstract: A series of aircraft penetrations into clear air turbulence zones within upper level fronts is presented. Heat and momentum diffusivities am estimated with a view toward obtaining more realistic parameterizations for ...

Abstract: Radar altimeter and inertial navigation wind velocity measurements from research aircraft are shown to give the ageostrophic wind velocity distribution within a jet stream system near the tropopause. Results from one case ...

Abstract: Analysis is presented of data obtained from instrumented aircraft flying in a mountain wave of moderate amplitude west of Denver, Colo., on 17 February 1970. Emphasis is placed on determination of the downward flux of ...

Abstract: Two direct observations of wave motion associated with fronts by well instrumented meteorological research aircraft are presented. Wave cloud photographs corroborate the analysis of the temperature and three-dimensional ...

Abstract: AbstractThe CSU?CHILL radar is a dual-wavelength, dual-polarization weather radar system operating at S and X band with coaxial beams. This radar system offers a unique environment to develop and/or validate algorithms ...

Abstract: omprehensive analysis of an unusual graupel-shower event recorded by an S-band polarimetric radar and two optical-imaging surface instruments is presented. The primary radar characteristic was negative differential ...

Abstract: The soils data of Wilson and Henderson-Sellers have been incorporated into the land-surface parameterization scheme of the NCAR Community Climate Model after Dickinson. A stand-alone version of this land-surface scheme, ...

Abstract: The efficacy of dual-polarization radar for quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) has been demonstrated in a number of previous studies. Specifically, rainfall retrievals using combinations of reflectivity (Zh), ...