21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms and 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction

Session 10A: Results from the Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS) Experiment

Wednesday, 14 August 2002: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Organizers:  Dave Rust, NOAA/NSSL and Don MacGorman, NOAA/NSSL
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Electrical Discharges from Thunderstorm Tops
Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. E. Nelson, V. P. Pasko, and M. A. Stanley

http://pasko.ee.psu.edu/Nature

Poster PDF (537.8 kB)
  1:45 PM
Comparison of radar-observed and WRF-modeled structures of two STEPS storms
L. Jay Miller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. L. Weisman

  2:00 PM
Aspects of electric field profiles and total lightning in severe thunderstorms in STEPS
W. D. Rust, NOAA/NWS and Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. MacGorman, P. R. Krehbiel, T. Hamlin, J. Harlin, W. Rison, R. Thomas, and E. C. Bruning

Poster PDF (105.9 kB)
  2:15 PM
Kinematic and microphysical evolution of the 29 June supercell during STEPS
Sarah A. Tessendorf, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins and UCAR/SOARS, Boulder, CO; and S. A. Rutledge

  2:30 PM
Lightning characteristics of two storms observed during STEPS
Andrew G. Detwiler, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD; and J. H. Helsdon, D. V. Kliche, Q. Mo, and T. A. Warner

Poster PDF (314.2 kB)
  2:45 PM
June 29, 2000 STEPS Supercell Storm: Relationships Between Kinematics, Microphysics, and Lightning
Kyle C. Wiens, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Tessendorf and S. A. Rutledge

http://radarmet.atmos.colostate.edu/~kwiens/rm3/kwiens/SLS_2002.html

Poster PDF (173.4 kB)