Studies of Radar-depicted Precipitation Lines
Studies of Radar-depicted Precipitation Lines

Author: Stanley Alcide Changnon

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Published: 1961

Total Pages: 146

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This report consists of three separate studies: (1) a radar climatological description of precipitation lines as displayed by the CPS-9, (2) a similar investigation using the APS-15, and (3) the radar characteristics of precipitation lines associated with heavy rainstorms. These investigations were made to supplement the limited knowledge available concerning precipitation lines, with particular attention to severe weather phenomena and heavy rainstorms. Data are presented to describe rainfall line characteristics such as movement, orientation, duration, size, and growth tendencies. It was found that severe weather and heavy rainfall lines were larger, persisted longer, moved faster, and rotated more than other lines.

On the Use of Radar in Identifying Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms
On the Use of Radar in Identifying Tornadoes and Severe Thunderstorms

Author: Roger C. Whiton

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Published: 1971

Total Pages: 30

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This report contains material taken from the available literature on identifying severe thunderstorms, hail, and tornadoes from radar echoes. Radar echo signatures indicating severe weather are consolidated for geographical areas and weather types to afford the radar meteorologist easy access to the findings of several investigators in the weather radar field. Information concerning X-band, S-band, and C-band radars is included.