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SEMINAR: AOML Seminar - .March 9, 2010 - 2:00 p.m. - Dr. Howard (Howie “Cb”)Bluestein - “Mobile, rapid-scan, phased array Doppler radar observations in , tornadoes and severe convective storms”

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Subject: SEMINAR: AOML Seminar - .March 9, 2010 - 2:00 p.m. - Dr. Howard (Howie “Cb”)Bluestein - “Mobile, rapid-scan, phased array Doppler radar observations in , tornadoes and severe convective storms”
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:01:50 -0500

AOML Seminar

DATE :               Tuesday, March 9, 2010

    TIME :                 2:00 p.m. -  refreshments at 1:45

          p.m.

LOCATION :    AOML First-Floor Conference Room       

SPEAKER :      Dr.  Howard (Howie “Cb”)Bluestein

                                            School of Meteorology,

                                           University of Oklahoma, Norman
                      

TITLE :         “Mobile, rapid-scan, phased array Doppler radar observations in   
   tornadoes and severe convective storms”

 

ABSTRACT: There are currently two mobile (truck-mounted), X-band, rapid-scan Doppler radars in use in the U. S.: The CSWR Rapid DOW and the CIRPAS/Naval Postgraduate School MWR-05XP. This talk will focus on the latter, a hybrid phased-array and rapidly mechanically scanning radar, which was used in the southern Plains during the springs of 2007, 2008, and 2009 during year 1 of VORTEX-2. A case will be made for the collection of rapid-scan, volumetric measurements in severe convective storms to study the mechanisms responsible for tornadogenesis. Data to be discussed include the complete life histories of cyclonic tornadoes in two supercells and two intense, anticyclonic vortices adjacent to nearby cyclonic vortices/tornadoes. Plans for using the radar during year 2 of VORTEX-2 and a progress report on the construction of the first mobile, rapid-scan, polarimetric, X-band, Doppler radar (RaXPol) will be given also. Finally, I hope that there will be some discussion from the audience on how the MWR-05XP and/or the RaXPol may be used in hurricane landfall field experiments.

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