Mariners Weather Log

Mariners Weather Log
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1969
Genre: Marine meteorology
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November issue includes abridged index to yearly volume.

Detection of Severe Local Storm Phenomena by Automated Interpretation of Radar and Storm Environment

Detection of Severe Local Storm Phenomena by Automated Interpretation of Radar and Storm Environment
Author: David Harvey Kitzmiller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1995
Genre: Severe storms
ISBN:

Many operational features of the WSR-88D were incorporated specifically to aid forecasters in the detection of severe local storms (damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes). One interpretive product, the Severe Weather Potential (SWP) algorithm, yields an index proportional to the probability that an individual thunderstorm cell will soon produce any severe weather phenomena. The SWP is based solely on radar information, namely vertically-integrated liquid VIL and storm horizontal extent.