Some Observations of Vertical Velocities and Precipitation Sizes in a Thunderstorm
- 1 August 1964
- journal article
- Published by American Meteorological Society in Journal of Applied Meteorology
- Vol. 3 (4) , 415-420
- https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0450(1964)003<0415:soovva>2.0.co;2
Abstract
Observations were made of a thunderstorm which formed over a vertically-pointing X-band pulsed-doppler radar set. They show details of the vertical velocity field in the storm and yield information about the growth of the precipitation particles. It is inferred that a downdraft starts early in the life of the cloud and is accompanied by precipitation particles which break up and evaporate under the cloud base.Keywords
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