WMOD00590

• Title: Analysis and Classification of Mesoscale Cloud and Precipitation Systems
• Date: 8/1/1983
• Weather Modification - Doc Type: Report

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FIGURES

Synoptic and meso-3
Texas HIPLEX Program

scale analysis area of the

Grid of Texas HIPLEX project showing rawinsonde,
radar and rain gage network locations , . . . . .

Recording rain gage network and rainfall objective
analysis grid. . . . . . .

Objective analysis grid and rain gage network used
in kinematic analyses . . . . . . . . .

Composite PPI echo-top height with objective
analysis cross section locations for May 27, 1979,
at 2354 GMT . . . . . . , . . , , . . . . . , .

Band-pass response functions used in kinematic
analyses of rawinsonde data . , . . . . . . . .

Weight functions for rain gage and kinematic

an a 1 ys e s .................

MESOCU model general flow of computations . . .

~ainfall observed on May 27, 1979, from 1800 to
0300 Gt.H .. .. ....,.. . . . . .

Band-pass analysis of rain gage observations
shown in Fig. 3.4 . . . . . . . . . . . , . . .

Composite maximum reflectivity analysis at 2354 GMT
on May 27, 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . .

Schematic of jet maximum circulations.

Modeled vertical structure of jet streak dynamics .

Spatial variability of temperature, dewpoint and
wind structure on June 5, 1979, at 1800 GMT.

Temporal variability of sounding structure at MA
on May 27, 1979, from 1500 to 0300 GMT during
a typical cluster case ..,........

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