WMOD00590

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

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CONTENTS - Continued

Page

Average change in mixing ratio at 2 to 3 km AGL
predicted by ~ESOCU for each type of event

227

MESOCU-predicted Jynamic Modification Potential
and total rainfall for each type of event, , .

228

Radar-estimated average rain volume and percent
of total radar-estimated rain volume by types .

229

Radar echo-top height and -base height for all
echoes within 70 km of rawinsonde sites observed
from 1500 to 2100 GMT during the 38 ICS events

231

Average echo duration and maximum reflectivity for
each type of event., ..... . . . . ,

232

Comparison between average MESOCU predictions of
cloud-top and -base heights and radar echo-top
and -base heights observed within 70 km and 3 h
of soundings . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,

233

Recording rain gage network obervations of total
9 h rainfall from 1800 to 0300 GMT, June 4, 1979,
plotted on a 0.10 objective analysis grid used for
detai 1 ed rai nfa 11 analyses . . . ,

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Band-pass analysis of rainfall on June 4, 1979

5.25 Rain gage and radar analyses of total rain volume
and average maximum rainfall during all twenty-one
1979 case study events .............. 240

5.26 Rain gage estimated rainfall and the number of rain
gages observing greater than 0.01 in of rainfall .... 241

5.27 Average rain volume and area receiving rainfall in
the rain gage network for each type of event in the
intensive case study sample . . . . . . . . . 242

5.28 Frequency distribution of rain rates for each type
of event ........ . . . . . . . . . . 243

5.29 Radar estimate of precipitation efficiency for each
type of event calculated from 2100 GMT maximum
vertical moisture flux at 900 and 700 mb ., , , . 248

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