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Engineering Report on a Dropsonde for Measuring Vertical Wind Velocity in Thunderstorms

Abstract

This report describes a special dropsonde for measuring and mapping the vertical wind inside thunderstorms. One the possible ways of measuring vertical wind is to drop instruments from an airplane into the tops of thunderstorms. The report details Doppler radar which can give measurements over most of a storm, wherever there is rain, snow, or hail. Vertical speed is determined by observing the vertical speed of the reflecting precipitation particles and then applying a correction for the fall speed of these particles.

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document

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http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7db818b

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eng

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geoscientificInformation

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Text

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publication

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2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > SENSOR CHARACTERISTICS

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > PLATFORM CHARACTERISTICS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED

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title

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revision

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2021-09-17

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publication

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1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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OpenSky Support

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UCAR/NCAR - Library

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PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

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opensky@ucar.edu

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http://opensky.ucar.edu/

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OpenSky Support

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UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

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opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

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pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-08-18T18:06:03.498099

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