Monday, 11 August 2003: 11:00 AM
A multiple-Doppler radar analysis of intersecting mesoscale boundaries during IHOP
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On 12 June 2002 convection initiated near the intersection of a
nearly stationary outflow boundary and a dryline. The Shared Mobile
Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) and three
Doppler-on-Wheels (DOW) continuously observed the evolution of this
outflow boundary during a convection initiation (CI) mission.
Relationships between both the kinematic and the thermodynamic fields to
the observed cloud formations are presented from multi-Doppler analysis.
The finescale structures in the water vapor mixing ratio and virtual
potential temperature fields along the boundary are revealed. Although
convection was initiated just to the east of the radar sampling region, a
trajectory analysis yields information about the air parcels that feed the
developing cumulus towers.
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