Abstract: This paper reports on three intentional flights through small south Florida funnel clouds in a sailplane. Two of the penetrations were through vertical funnels, and one was through a sloping funnel cloud. The latter allowed ...

Abstract: The desirability of, and theoretical requirements for, optical rectification and gridding of satellite photographs are discussed for cases of both low and high TIROS tilt angles. The equipment designed and built for that ...

Abstract: Analysis of the histories of spiral rain bands as observed on radar indicates that they are usually formed near the center of the storm and propagate radially outward. The rain band, therefore, maintains a quasi-conservative ...