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1. Leading Edge Radar: The Upgraded ARM Network

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Kollias, P., Bharadwaj, N., Clothiaux, E.E., Lamer, K., Oue, M., Hardin, J., Isom, B., Lindenmaier, I., Matthews, A., Luke, E.P., Giangrande, S.E., Johnson, K., Collis, S., Comstock, J., and Mather, J.H.

Subjects
Precipitation (Meteorology), Clouds (Meteorology), Radiation measurement, Radar, Atmospheric physics, Business, Earth sciences
Abstract

With significant upgrades over the last decade, the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) radar network now features multiple scanning dual-polarization Doppler radars to exploit polarimetric, multifrequency, and multi-Doppler [...]

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2020
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2. RESULTS OF THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA CONVECTION STUDY FOR EXTREME WEATHER RESILIENT CITIES (TOMACS): A dense network of X-band polarimetric radars and other instruments was deployed to study and forecast local high-impact weather around Tokyo

Author

Misumi, Ryohei, Shoji, Yoshinori, Saito, Kazuo, Seko, Hiromu, Seino, Naoko, Suzuki, Shin-ichi, Shusse, Yukari, Hirano, Kohin, Belair, Stephane, Chandrasekar, V., Lee, Dong-In, Filho, Augusto Jose Pereira, Nakatani, Tsuyoshi, and Maki, Masayuki

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Japan. Meteorological Agency, Meteorological research, Local government -- Japan, Industrial research -- Japan, Extreme weather, Radar, Business, Earth sciences, Research and development
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ABSTRACT The Tokyo Metropolitan Area Convection Study for Extreme Weather Resilient Cities (TOMACS) began as a Japanese domestic research project in 2010 and aimed to elucidate the mechanisms behind local [...]

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2019
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3. TACTICAL DECISION-MAKING SUPPORT INFORMATION FOR AIRCRAFT LIGHTNING AVOIDANCE: Feasibility Study in Area of Winter Lightning

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Yoshikawa, Eiichi and Ushio, Tomoo

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Japan Airlines International Company Ltd., Aircraft design, Aircraft, Decision making, Radar, Aircraft industry, Aviation, Business, Earth sciences, Research
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Did you know that aircraft can cause lightning? Researchers began investigating aircraft-triggered lightning after several cases were observed of aircraft receiving lightning strikes from lightning-inactive clouds. The phenomenon of aircraft-triggered [...]

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2019
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4. EXPERIENCES WITH >50,000 CROWDSOURCED HAIL REPORTS IN SWITZERLAND: Fifty-nine thousand crowdsourced hail size reports, gathered in Switzerland since May 2015, are presented, assessed, and compared to two operational radar-based hail detection algorithms

Author

Barras, Helene, Hering, Alessandro, Martynov, Andrey, Noti, Pascal-Andreas, Germann, Urs, and Martius, Olivia

Subjects
Algorithms, Sensors, Radar, Crowdsourcing, Business, Earth sciences
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Crowdsourcing is an observational method that has gained increasing popularity in recent years. In hail research, crowdsourced reports bridge the gap between heuristically defined radar hail algorithms, which are automatic [...]

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2019
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5. CHAT: The Colorado Hail Accumulation from Thunderstorms Project: The CHAT project aims to collect hail accumulation reports and study the behavior of hail-producing thunderstorms with dual-polarization weather radars and a lightning mapping array

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Friedrich, Katja, Wallace, Robinson, Meier, Bernard, Rydell, Nezette, Deierling, Wiebke, Kalina, Evan, Motta, Brian, Schlatter, Paul, Schlatter, Thomas, and Doesken, Nolan

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United States. National Weather Service, Weather forecasting, Storms -- Texas -- Wyoming -- Colorado, Radar, Meteorological radar stations, Business, Earth sciences
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ABSTRACT In recent years, hail accumulations from thunderstorms have occurred frequently enough to catch the attention of the National Weather Service, the general public, and news agencies. Despite the extreme [...]

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2019
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6. Doppler Circulation as a Far-field Tornado Detector

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Davies-Jones, Robert, Wood, V.T., and Rasmussen, E.N.

Subjects
Tornadoes, Detection equipment, Radar, Radar meteorology, Business, Earth sciences
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Roughly speaking, a tornado consists of an inner core that rotates as a solid body surrounded by an outer flow where the circulation is constant. Generally Doppler radar does not [...]

Published
2020

7. RODDY ROGERS: 1934-2019

Author

Gyakum, John R., Yau, Man Kong "Peter", Derome, Jacques, and Zawadzki, Isztar

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McGill University, College faculty, Cloud physics, Chairpersons, Radar, Radar meteorology, Business, Earth sciences
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Roddy Rhodes Rogers, professor emeritus of atmospheric science, passed away on February 20, 2019, at the age of 85. Rogers devoted his career to atmospheric remote sensing using Doppler radar, [...]

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2019

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