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The Feasibility of Long Duration Ballooning in Antarctica
This report outlines a plan for balloon operations in Antarctica as requested by Mr. Gordon Newkirk of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It includes discussions of...- 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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Scientific Justification and Development Plan for a Mid-sized Jet Research Ai...
This document serves to substantiate the strong recommendations received from the scientific community that the acquisition of a mid-sized jet should be NCAR's highest priority...- publication PDF
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Workshop on Numerical Modeling and Physical Reality
This report contains speakers' abstracts as presented at the workshop on Numerical Modeling and Physical Reality held at the Mesa Laboratory of NCAR on September 3-5, 1997 and...- 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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Real-time Forecasts for WISP-91 Using the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model
This technical report describes the experience gained from operational use of the model for the Winter Icing and Storms Project (WISP-91). The operational MM4 forecasts are...- publication PDF
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On Atmospheric Simulation: A Colloquium
To assess a national need for facilities to simulate atmospheric processes, a Colloquium on Atmospheric Simulation was set up to survey current laboratory experimentation on...- publication PDF
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Fellowship Program in Scientific Computing: Internship Program for Minority S...
The papers contained in the 1976 Technical Note NCAR/TN-119+PROC represent the research and programming carried out / 12 students in the Computing Facility summer programs...- publication PDF
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Dispersion of Smoke Plumes From the Oil Fires of Kuwait
Measurements collected during the multiple passes of a research aircraft through the smoke plumes from the oil fires of Kuwait are used to determine the sizes and growth rates...- publication PDF
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The Ophir Radiometric Thermometer: Preliminary Evaluation
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Calibration of the NCAR Sabreliner Research Static Pressure Source With a Tra...
Trailing cone results verify that pressure corrections for the NCAR Sabreliner derived from tower flyby data can be extrapolated to higher Mach numbers and higher altitudes with...- publication PDF
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National Hail Research Experiment Data Catalog (1972-1976)
This document constitutes a portion of the final report to the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the National Hail Research Experiment (NHRE). The purpose of the material...- publication PDF
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Technical Description of an Urban Parameterization for the Community Land Mod...
This technical note describes the physical parameterizations and numerical implementation of a Community Land Model Urban (CLMU) parameterization as coupled to version 4 of the...- publication PDF
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Emergency managers on-line survey on extratropical and tropical cyclone forec...
We report on a web-based survey of emergency managers (EMs) that is part of a larger body of work with the goal of better understanding how certain NOAA weather forecast...- publication PDF
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An Airplane-Mounted System for Sensing and Recording Radio Noise in Clouds
This document reports an instrumental development which solved certain problems in field research for NCAR staff scientists concerning the detection of electrification in...- publication PDF
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Multi-sensor Advection Diffusion nowCast (MADCast) for cloud analysis and sho...
A new approach designed for the analysis and short-term forecasting of clouds,called Multi-sensor Advection-Diffusion nowCast (MADCast), has been implemented within the Weather...- publication PDF
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The White Light Solar Corona: An Atlas of 1988 K-coronameter Synoptic Charts ...
The material presented in this report is in a format designed to provide convenient access to investigators intending to make correlative studies or an intercomparison of...- publication PDF
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Taiwan Area Mesoscale Experiment: A Guide to Precipitation Patterns During th...
This document summarizes radar reflectivity patterns in the Doppler radar coverage area during the field phase of the experiment. Its purpose is (1)to provide a condensed sample...- publication PDF
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Mie Scattering Calculations: Advances in Technique and Fast, Vector-speed Com...
This document gathers improvements in Mie scattering techniques, together with the necessary reorganization to attain vector speed, to produce new Mie scattering codes suitable...- publication PDF
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A Polarization Calibration Technique for the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter
This document presents an efficient method for determination of the polarimeter response function of the Advanced Stokes Polarimeter (ASP). ASP has a linear polarizer which can...- publication PDF