WMOD00373

• Title: Investigations of Winter Storms in Utah
• Prepared By: Alexis B. Long, Atmospheric Sciences Center
• Date: 12/1/1986
• State: UT
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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Figure 74. Same as Figure 72 but for 0600 MST to 1600 MST on 9 February
1985.

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Figure 75. Same as Figure 72 but for 1800 MST to 2200 MST on 9 February 207
1985.

Figure 76.

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Figure 77.

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Wind direction (deg) and wind speed
the local project rawinsonde as a
pressure-altitude for the period from
to 2000 MST on 9 February.

(m s-l)
function
0500 MST

measured with
of time and
on 8 February

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Figure 78. Same as Figure 77 but for the period from 1100 MST to 1940 218
MST on 9 February.

Mesoscale kinematic variables measured
Doppler radar as a function of time and
period from 2300 MST on 8 February
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with the C-band
altitude for the
to llOO MST on 9

Figure 79. Southerly and westerly components of the horizontal wind
derived from 3 hr averages of Ka-band Doppler radar data
collected at Merchant Valley in the Tushar Mtns.

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Figure 80. Equivalent reflectivity factor (db~) measured with the Ka- 231
band raidar as a functio.n of time and altitude

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Figure 81. Comparison of absolute humidities measured with the radio- 238
meter and with the local, project rawinsonde for 2300 MST on
8 February 1985.

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Figure 83.

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Figure 84.

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Comparison of absolute humidities measured with the radio-
meter and with the local, project rawinsonde for 0500 MST on
9 February 1985.

Absolute humidity (g m-3), westerly wind speed (m s-l), and
westerly water vapor flux (g m-2s-l) calculated from the
local project rawinsonde data and displayed as a function of
time and altitude.

humidity (g m-3), westerly wind speed (m s-l), and
water vapor flux (g m-2s-1) measured, respectively,
radiometer. Ka-band Doppler radar, and radiometer
combined and displayed as a function of time and

Absolute
westerly
with the
and rad.ar
altitudle.

Figure 85. Updraft speed (m's-l) and water release rate (g m-3s-l) cal-
culated from C-band Doppler radar data and local project
rawinsonde data and displayed as a function of altitude for
the tin~ period from 2300 MST on 8 February to 1100 MST on 9
February.

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Figure 86. Same as: Figure 85 but for the period from 1100 MST to 1940 248
MST on 9 February.

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