Satellite detection of severe convective storms by their retrieved vertical profiles of cloud particle effective radius and thermodynamic phase

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Rosenfeld, Daniel ^a   Woodley, William L ^b   Lerner, Amit ^a   Kelman, Guy ^a   Lindsey, Daniel T ^c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Woodley Weather Consultants   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); STORMS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TORNADOES; WIND;

DETECTION METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; GLACIATION; HAIL; RAINDROP; THERMODYNAMICS; TORNADO; VERTICAL PROFILE; WIND SHEAR;

EID: 42549152804     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008600     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Adler, R. F., M. J. Markus, and D. D. Fenn (1983), Detection of severe Midwest thunderstorms using geosynchronous satellite data, Mon. Weather Rev., 113, 769-781.
2. Andreae, M. O., D. Rosenfeld, P. Artaxo, A. A. Costa, G. P. Frank, K. M. Longo, and M. A. F. Silva-Dias (2004), Smoking rain clouds over the Amazon, Science, 303, 1337-1342.
3. Beard, K. V., and H. T. Ochs III (1993), Warm-rain initiation: An overview of microphysical mechanisms, J. Appl. Meteorol., 32, 608-625.
4. Brooks, H. E., and R. B. Wilhelmson (1990), The effect of low-level hodograph curvature on supercell structure, preprints, 16th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Am. Meteorol. Soc., Kananaskis Park, Alberta, Canada.
5. Brooks, H. E., J. W. Lee, and J. P. Craven (2003), The spatial distribution of severe thunderstorm and tornado environments from global reanalysis data, Atmos. Rev., 67-68, 73-94.
6. Browning, K. A. (1964), Airflow and precipitation trajectories within severe local storms which travel to the right of the winds, J. Atmos. Sci., 21, 634-639.
7. Browning, K. A., and R. J. Donaldson Jr. (1963), Airflow and structure of a tornadic storm, J. Atmos. Sci., 20, 533-545.
8. Davies-Jones, R. P. (1974), Discussion of measurements inside high-speed thunderstorm updrafts, J. Appl. Meteorol., 13, 710-717.
9. Davis, J. M. (2006), Tornadoes in environments with small helicity and/ or high LCL heights, Weather Forecasting, 21, 579-594.
10. Donaldson, R. J. (1970), Vortex signature recognition by a Doppler radar, J. Appl. Meteorol., 9, 661-670.
11. Dupilka, M. L., and G. W. Reuter (2006a), Forecasting tornadic thunderstorm potential in Alberta using environmental sounding data. Part I: Wind shear and buoyancy, Weather Forecasting, 21, 325-335.
12. Dupilka, M. L., and G. W. Reuter (2006b), Forecasting tornadic thunderstorm potential in Alberta using environmental sounding data. Part II: Helicity, precipitable water, and storm convergence, Weather Forecasting, 21, 336-346.
13. Hamill, T. M., and A. T. Church (2000), Conditional probabilities of significant tornadoes from RUC-2 forecasts, Weather Forecasting, 15, 461-475.
14. Freud, E., D. Rosenfeld, M. O. Andreae, A. A. Costa, and P. Artaxo (2005), Observed robust relations between CCN and vertical evolution of cloud drop size distributions in deep convective clouds, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc., 5, 10,155-10,195.
15. Fridlind, A. M., et al. (2004), Evidence for the predominance of mid-tropospheric aerosols as subtropical anvil nuclei, Science, 304, 718-722.
16. Heymsfield, A. J., L. M. Miloshevich, C. Schmitt, A. Bansemer, C. Twohy, M. R. Poellot, A. Fridlind, and H. Gerber (2005), Homogeneous ice nucleation in subtropical and tropical convection and its influence on cirrus anvil microphysics, J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 41-64.
17. Heymsfield, G. M., G. Szejwach, S. Schotz, and R. H. Blackmer Jr. (1983), Upper-level structure of Oklahoma tornadic storms on 2 May 1979. II: Proposed explanation of V pattern and internal warm region in infrared observations, J. Atmos. Sci., 22, 1756-1767.
18. Jensen, E. J., and A. S. Ackerman (2006), Homogeneous aerosol freezing in the tops of high-altitude tropical cumulonimbus clouds, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08802, doi:10.1029/2005GL024928.
19. Khain, A. P., D. Rosenfeld, and A. Pokrovsky (2001), Simulating convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5°C using a spectral microphysics model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 3887-3890.
20. Lensky, I. M., and D. Rosenfeld (2006), The time-space exchangeability of satellite retrieved relations between cloud top temperature and particle effective radius, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 2887-2894.
21. Levizzani, V., and M. Setvák (1996), Multispectral, high-resolution satellite observations of plumes on top of convective storms, J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 361-369.
22. Lindsey, D. T., D. W. Hillger, L. Grasso, J. A. Knaff, and J. F. Dostalek (2006), GOES climatology and analysis of thunderstorms with enhanced 3.9-μm reflectivity, Mon. Weather Rev., 134, 2342-2353.
23. Madalla, G. S. (1983), Limited Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics, 416 pp., Cambridge Univ. Press, New York.
24. McCann, D. W. (1983), The enhanced-V, a satellite observable severe storm signature, Mon. Weather Rev., 111, 887-894.
25. Pinsky, M., and A. P. Khain (2002), Effects of in-cloud nucleation and turbulence on droplet spectrum formation in cumulus clouds, Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 128, 1-33.
26. Pinsky, M. B., A. P. Khain, D. Rosenfeld, and A. Pokrovsky (1998), Comparison of collision velocity differences of drops and graupel particles in a very turbulent cloud, Atmos. Res., 49, 99-113.
27. Rasmussen, E. N., and D. O. Blanchard (1998), A baseline climatology of sounding-derived supercell and tornado forecast parameters, Weather Forecasting, 13, 1148-1164.
28. Rosenfeld, D. (2006), Aerosol-cloud interactions control of Earth radiation and latent heat release, Space Sci. Rev., 125, 149-157, doi:10.1007/s11214-006-9053-6.
29. Rosenfeld, D., and G. Gutman (1994), Retrieving microphysical properties near the tops of potential rain clouds by multispectral analysis of AVHRR data, Atmos. Res., 34, 259-283.
30. Rosenfeld, D., and I. M. Lensky (1998), Satellite-based insights into precipitation formation processes in continental and maritime convective clouds, Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., 79, 2457-2476.
31. Rosenfeld, D., and W. L. Woodley (2000), Deep convective clouds with sustained supercooled liquid water down to -37.5°C, Nature, 405, 440-442.
32. Rosenfeld, D., and W. L. Woodley (2003), Closing the 50-year circle: From cloud seeding to space and back to climate change through precipitation physics, in Cloud Systems, Hurricanes, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), edited by W.-K. Tao and R. Adler, chap. 6, Meteorol. Monogr., 51, 59-80.
33. Rosenfeld, D., R. Lahav, A. P. Khain, and M. Pinsky (2002), The role of sea-spray in cleansing air pollution over ocean via cloud processes, Science, 297, 1667-1670.
34. Rosenfeld, D., M. Fromm, J. Trentmann, G. Luderer, M. O. Andreae, and R. Servranckx (2006a), The Chisholm firestorm: Observed microstructure, precipitation and lightning activity of a pyro-Cb, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Disc., 6, 9877-9906.
35. Rosenfeld, D., W. L. Woodley, T. W. Krauss, and V. Makitov (2006b), Aircraft microphysical documentation from cloud base to anvils of hail-storm feeder clouds in Argentina, J. Appl. Meteorol., 45, 1261-1281.
36. Setvák, M., R. M. Rabin, C. A. Doswell, and V. Levizzani (2003), Satellite observations of convective storm top features in the 1.6 and 3.7/3.9 μm spectral bands, Atmos. Res., 67-68C, 589-605.
37. Stith, J. L., J. A. Hagerty, A. J. Heymsfield, and C. A. Grainger (2004), Microphysical characteristics of tropical updrafts in clean conditions, J. Appl. Meteorol., 43, 779-794.
38. Van den Heever, S. C., and W. R. Cotton (2007), Urban aerosol impacts on downwind convective storms, J. Appl. Meteorol. Climatol., 46, 828-850.
39. Weisman, M. L., and J. B. Klemp (1984), The structure and classification of numerically simulated convective storms in directionally varying wind shears, Mon. Weather Rev., 112, 2479-2498.