Transverse cirrus bands in weather systems: A grand tour of an enduring enigma

Weather

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 35-41

  Knox, John A ^a   Bachmeier, A Scott ^b   Carter, W Michael ^a   Tarantino, Jonathan E ^a   Paulik, Laura C ^a   Wilson, Emily N ^a   Bechdol, Gregory S ^a   Mays, Mary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; JET STREAM;

EID: 77949598287     PISSN: 00431656     EISSN: 14778696     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wea.417     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. American Meteorological Society. 1999. Glossary of Meteorology. 2nd edition. American Meteorological Society: Boston, MA.
2. Anonymous. 1964. Picture of the Month. Mon. Weather Rev. 92: 104.
3. Beckman SB. 1981. Wave clouds and severe turbulence. National Weather Digest 6: 30-37.
4. Bedka K, Feltz W, Mecikalski J, Sharman R, Lenz A, Gerth J. 2007. Satellite signatures associated with significant convectivelyinduced turbulence events. Proceedings of the Joint 2007 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference and the 15th Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference of the American Meteorological Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EUMETSAT. http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/Publications/Conference-and-Workshop- Proceedings/groups/cps/documents/document/pdf-conf-p50-s4-01-bedka-p.pdf [Accessed 20 January 2009].
5. Carlson TN. 1980. Airflow through midlatitude cyclones and the comma cloud pattern. Mon. Weather Rev. 108: 1498-1509.
6. Dixon RS, Browning KA, Shutts GJ. 2000. The mystery of striated cloud heads in satellite imagery. Atmos. Sci. Lett. doi:10.1006/asle.2000.0001.
7. Dutton JA, Panofsky HA. 1970. Clear air turbulence: A mystery may be unfolding. Science 167: 937-944.
8. Ellrod GP. 1989. A decision tree approach to clear air turbulence analysis using satellite and upper air data, NOAA Technical Memorandum NESDIS Satellite Applications Laboratory: Washington DC.
9. Feren G. 1995. The 'striated delta' cloud system-a satellite imagery precursor to major cyclogenesis in the eastern Australian-western Tasman Sea region. Weather Forecast. 10: 286-309.
10. Fritsch JM, Maddox RA. 1981. Convectively driven mesoscale weather systems aloft. Part I: Observations. J. Appl. Meteorol. 20: 9-19.
11. Frost BC. 1953. Flying in jet stream wind. Shell Aviation News 186: 4-8.
12. Galvin JFP. 2007. The weather and climate of the tropics: Part 2 - The subtropical jet streams. Weather 62: 295-299.
13. Galvin JFP. 2009. Weather image: Two cases of turbulence over western Europe. Weather 64: 83-84.
14. Knox JA. 1997. Possible mechanisms of clear-air turbulence in strongly anticyclonic flow. Mon. Weather Rev. 125: 1251-1259.
15. Kuettner JP. 1959. The band structure of the atmosphere. Tellus 11: 267-294.
16. Kuettner JP. 1971. Cloud bands in the earth's atmosphere. Observations and theory. Tellus 23: 404-425.
17. Lenz A. 2008. Identification of aviation turbulence signatures from mesoscale convective features using satellite imagery. Unpublished senior thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Wisconsin, USA.
18. Lester PF. 1994. Turbulence: A new perspective for pilots. Jeppesen: Englewood, Colorado.
19. Overeem A. 2002. Verification of clear-air turbulence forecasts. Technisch rapport, KNMI. http://www.knmi.nl/~overeem/CAT-TR.pdf [Accessed 20 January 2009].
20. Schaefer VJ, Hubert WE. 1955. A case study of jet stream clouds. Tellus 7: 301-307.
21. Trier S, Sharman RD, Fovell RG. 2008. Case studies of widespread turbulence in the vicinity of mesoscale convective systems using 13-km RUC analyses. Proceedings 13th Conference Aviation, Range and Aerospace Meteorolology, New Orleans, LA. American Meteorological Society: Boston, MA.
22. Viezee W, Endlich RM, Serebreny SM. 1967. Satellite-viewed jet stream clouds in relation to the observed wind field. J. Appl. Meteorol. 6: 929-935.
23. Whitney Jr LF, Timchalk A, Gray Jr TI. 1966. On locating jet streams from TIROS photographs. Mon. Weather Rev. 94: 127-138.
24. Zehr RM. 2004. Satellite products and imagery with Hurricane Isabel. Proceedings 13th Conference Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Norfolk, VA. American Meteorological Society. http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/79158.pdf [Accessed 20 January 2009].