MTEOR 417/517 WEEK 10 SUPPORTING MATERIAL

Week 10 - Use of Radar for severe weather forecasting and warning

Details of radar features

• Schematic from Mike Umscheid of vault overlaid on picture of supercell
• OU radar image of hail spike
• On-line TUTORIAL of Doppler radar
• Velocity data from supercell
• Reflectivity data from supercell
• Radar view of bow echo from BAMEX document
• Radar images of 9/8/05 bow echo in IA
• Radar look at derecho in Adirondacks
• loop of Mar 12 event
• loop of Mar 12 event with reports and warnings
• Can you guess what is going on in this radar image? (HINT: look at the date/time)

  Lab 10 images

• LAB 10 DMX RADAR IMAGE AT TIME 00
• LAB 10 DMX RADAR IMAGE AT TIME 10
• LAB 10 DMX RADAR IMAGE AT TIME 20
• LAB 10 DMX RADAR IMAGE AT TIME 30
• LAB 10 DMX RADAR IMAGE AT TIME 40
• LAB 10 DMX RADAR IMAGE AT TIME 50

• LAB 10 IPT RADAR IMAGE FOR QUESTION 5
• LAB 10 IPT RADAR IMAGE FOR QUESTION 6
• LAB 10 LIT RADAR IMAGE FOR QUESTION 7
• LAB 10 LIT RADAR IMAGE FOR QUESTION 8