Wednesday, 6 August 2003: 12:13 PM
Dynamic structures of a convective system based on radar and lidar measurements
The development and evolution of convective systems triggered by the complex
orography of the Alps was one of the issues to be
investigated during the field campaign VERTIKATOR (Vertical Exchange
and Orography) in Summer 2002. In this presentation the 9 July 2002 is
exemplary chosen to study the processes which occur during the alpine
pumping phenomena. The research bases on the temporal and spatial
measurements of microphysical and dynamical parameters achieved by the
FALCON aircraft equipped with the DLR WIND-LIDAR system, a monostatic
C-band Doppler radar system, and the polarimetric Doppler radar POLDIRAD
equipped with three bistatic receivers.
This presentation focuses on the dynamical structures likely necessary to
trigger convection over the complex orography of the Alpine foreland and
on the wind-vector fields which were
observed in- and outside of the convective system itself.
Microphysical parameters inside are also derived using polarimetric
measurements.
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