Rapid sampling of severe storms by the National Weather Radar Testbed Phased Array Radar

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 808-824

  Heinselman, Pamela L ^a,b   Priegnitz, David L ^a   Manross, Kevin L ^a   Smith, Travis M ^a   Adams, Richard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTIVE STORMS; HIGH-TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; LOW ALTITUDES; MICROBURST; PHASED ARRAY RADARS; RADAR DATUM; RAPID IDENTIFICATIONS; RAPID INTENSIFICATIONS; RAPID SAMPLINGS; SEVERE STORMS; STORM STRUCTURES; SUPER CELLS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; VOLUMETRIC DATUM; WEATHER PHENOMENON; WEATHER RADARS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

LIFE CYCLE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); ROTATION; SURVEILLANCE RADAR; TEST FACILITIES; TESTBEDS; VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS;

STORMS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DOPPLER RADAR; HAIL; SAMPLING; SPRING (SEASON); STORM; SUMMER; SUPERCELL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 58149120410     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008WAF2007071.1     Document Type: Article

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