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Two Unequal Spheres in Slow Viscous Linear Shear Flow
This report depicts a study intended to determine the influence of air shear on the trajectories of small cloud droplets to predict the conditions under which cloud droplets...- publication PDF
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Catalogue of Meteorological Data Obtained During the Line Islands Experiment...
The Line Islands Experiment, February-April 1967, was designed to provide comprehensive meteorological data in the oceanic part of the Equatorial Trough Zone. This document is a...- publication PDF
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Data Catalog for the 1970 Colorado Lee Wave Observational Program
The 1970 Colorado Lee Wave Observational Program provided the second period of intensive measurements of mountain-induced airflow over the central Rocky Mountains. The first...- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 1, 13 July 1978: First Echo Case
On 13 July 1978, a long-lived storm complex developed in southeastern Wyoming, and was well observed by aircraft and radars. The potential instability was weak to moderate on...- publication PDF
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Measurement Uncertainties of the NCAR Air Motion Systems
An in-depth assessment of the measurement uncertainties of the NCAR air motion systems characterizes this capability and is presented as a useful tool for determining wind data...- publication PDF
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Meeting Review: Workshop on Airborne Instrumentation 19-21 October 1988
Approximately 40-50 scientists met in October, 1988 to review needs for airborne instruments and to plan for development of some of the needed instrumentation. This report...- publication PDF
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GHOST Balloon Data Volume II: Balloon 28x
Early Global Horizontal Sounding Technique (GHOST) balloon tests have resulted in valuable upper air wind data, particularly in the data-poor mid-latitudes over southern...- publication PDF
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Numerical Forecasting of Winds in the Terminal Environment
This report describes a method for forecasting low-level winds in the Terminal Environment in the 30 to 60 minute timeframe. Tests are performed using data from Lincoln Labs'...- publication PDF
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International Workshop on the Airborne Measurement of Wind, Turbulence, and...
This report summarizes the sessions of the International Workshop on the Airboune Measurement of Wind, Turbulence and Position. It includes oral presentations as well as working...- publication PDF
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Internal Storm Motions From a Single Non-Doppler Weather Radar
A correlation analysis pattern recognition technique called TREC (for tracking radar echoes by correlation) is developed which is capable of determining motions within storms....- publication PDF
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How long is long enough when measuring fluxes and other turbulence statistics?
We determine how long a time series must be to estimate covariances and moments up to fourth order with a specified statistical significance. For a given averaging time T there...- publication PDF
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Global Atmospheric Circulation Statistics, 1000-1 mb
Daily global geopotential height grids covering 70-1 mb have been combined with conventional National Meteorological Center geopotential analyses over 1000-100 mb to produce a...- publication PDF
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The NCAR In Situ Turbulence Detection Algorithm
Historically, there has been one main source for routine turbulence observations for the aviation community, namely pilot reports. Although useful for tactical turbulence...- publication PDF
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A user guide to a particle-growth and trajectory model (using...
This article does not have an abstract or article summary.- publication PDF
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Lecture Notes on The Planetary Boundary Layer
This set of lecture notes introduces the dynamics, statistics, clouds, and models of the planetary boundary layer (PBL). The author prepared the notes for graduate classes while...- publication PDF
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Case Studies on Convective Storms / Case Study 5, 12 July 1978: First Echo Case
A small, isolated, short-lived cumulus congestus was studied using primarily a10 cm radar, a cloud penetration with an instrumented sailplane, and time-lapse photography froman...- publication PDF
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Summer Fellowship in Scientific Computing / Computing Facility Summer 1978
The papers presented in this document summarize the research and programming work completed during the summer of 1978 by eight students who participated in the Summer Fellowship...- publication PDF
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ECMWF Global Analyses 1979-1986: Circulation Statistics and Data Evaluation
The purpose of this technical note is to establish the climate record from global analyses for use in compiling climatologies which may then be used to validate the Community...- publication PDF
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Studies in Climate
The Climate Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research held a symposium on analysis and modeling of climate on large spatial scales from 29 November to 2 December...- publication PDF
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Characterization of Uncertainty in Measurements of Wind from the NSF/NCAR...
This technical note presents an analysis of uncertainty for measurements of wind from the Gulfstream V research aircraft operated by the National Center for Atmospheric Research...- publication PDF
