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Closures of the surface energy budget.
(2000)
Results outline appropriate procedures for limiting instrument and system error in measurement of the surface energy budget. A systematic error was identified from an examination of closure at ten OASIS sites, and a ...
Ensemble cloud model applications to forecasting thunderstorms.
(2000)
A cloud model ensemble forecasting approach is developed to create forecasts which describe the range and distribution of thunderstorm lifetimes that may be expected to occur on a particular day. Such forecasts are crucial ...
Tropical climate stability, Hadley circulation, and deep cumulus convection: Vital synergism on a wet planet.
(2000)
Important features of the proposed formulation for precipitating deep turbulent clouds include the ability to calculate precipitation efficiencies, a new postulation relating cumulus buoyancy to solar radiation, and the ...
Surface thermodynamic characteristics of hook echoes and rear-flank downdrafts, with implications for tornado genesis and maintenance.
(2000)
Since its first documentation in 1953, the "hook echo" has been perhaps the best-recognized radar feature of supercell storms. Hook echoes have been associated with a region of subsiding air to the rear of both tornadic ...
A pseudo-dual-Doppler analysis of cyclic tornadogenesis.
(2000)
The goals of this study were twofold. The first was to determine a pseudo-dual-Doppler wind synthesis method in Cartesian coordinates appropriate for the analysis of the ELDORA data. Unique aspects of this part of the study ...