Statistics of storm updraft velocities from TWP-ICE including verification with profiling measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1909-1922

  Collis, Scott ^a   Protat, Alain ^b   May, Peter T ^b   Williams, Christopher ^c  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODEL; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; MODEL CONSTRAINTS; NORTHERN TERRITORIES; NUMERICAL CONSTRAINTS; PROFILING MEASUREMENTS; PROFILING SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL SCALE;

DOPPLER RADAR; STORMS;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION; DOPPLER RADAR; MONSOON; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORM; VERTICAL PROFILE;

AUSTRALIA; DARWIN; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84884251745     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0230.1     Document Type: Article

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