An intercomparison of UW cloud-top cooling rates with WSR-88D radar data

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 463-480

  Hartung, Daniel C ^a   Sieglaff, Justin M ^a   Cronce, Lee M ^a   Feltz, Wayne F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPUTE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; COOLING RATES; INTERCOMPARISONS; NOWCAST; RADAR DATA; RADAR SIGNATURE; SATELLITE DATA; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

CLOUDS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; COOLING; DETECTION METHOD; NOWCASTING; RADAR; SATELLITE DATA; TRACKING;

EID: 84875648550     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00021.1     Document Type: Article

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