tornadotony Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 I thought I'd share the extended abstract of a poster several colleagues and I presented at the 35th AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago. It involves the EF1 tornado that struck Wanatah, IN, on 10/26/10 during the Octobomb cyclone. http://ams.confex.com/ams/35Radar/webprogram/Manuscript/Paper191972/FinalExtAbs35thRadConf_tornado.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baroclinic_instability Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 Nice work. This should be moved to Weather Forecasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tornadotony Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share Posted October 10, 2011 Nice work. This should be moved to Weather Forecasting. Go ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Nice work! It's good to see examples of HP wrapped tornadoes in > 5 cm wavelengths (Op use with the WSR-88D is ~10 cm) and this is the first time I've seen a QLCS tornado. The only question I have is what was the PHI from before and after the RHO dip? It would better help understand the attenuation problems inherent with the C-band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticaFanatica Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Thanks for posting, I was at the conference and missed this poster (easy to do). The only other polarimetric tornado obs at C-band I think are from OU-PRIME in the July issue of BAMS. There are SMART-Radar polarimetric obs of tornadoes, but I don't believe they have been published. Nice work! It's good to see examples of HP wrapped tornadoes in > 5 mm wavelengths (Op use with the WSR-88D is ~10 mm) and this is the first time I've seen a QLCS tornado. The only question I have is what was the PHI from before and after the RHO dip? It would better help understand the attenuation problems inherent with the C-band. Small correction, this is cm-wavelength radar, not mm, mm radars would be W-band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxmeddler Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Small correction, this is cm-wavelength radar, not mm, mm radars would be W-band. ,Wow... I can't believe I did that.. Thanks for the correction (fixed the original post) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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