The Ontario Winter Lake-Effect Systems Field Campaign: Scientific and Educational Adventures to Further Our Knowledge and Prediction of Lake-Effect Storms
Autor: | Kevin R. Knupp, Richard D. Clark, Scott M. Steiger, David A. R. Kristovich, Nicholas D. Metz, Jeffrey Frame, Karen Kosiba, W. James Steenburgh, Justin R. Minder, Todd D. Sikora, Joshua Wurman, Bart Geerts, Neil F. Laird, George S. Young |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Severe weather Meteorology Lake-effect snow 0208 environmental biotechnology Winter storm Storm 02 engineering and technology Wind profiler 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering law.invention Depth sounding law Doppler on Wheels Environmental science Weather radar 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
Zdroj: | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 98:315-332 |
ISSN: | 1520-0477 0003-0007 |
Popis: | Intense lake-effect snowstorms regularly develop over the eastern Great Lakes, resulting in extreme winter weather conditions with snowfalls sometimes exceeding 1 m. The Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems (OWLeS) field campaign sought to obtain unprecedented observations of these highly complex winter storms. OWLeS employed an extensive and diverse array of instrumentation, including the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft, five university-owned upper-air sounding systems, three Center for Severe Weather Research Doppler on Wheels radars, a wind profiler, profiling cloud and precipitation radars, an airborne lidar, mobile mesonets, deployable weather Pods, and snowfall and particle measuring systems. Close collaborations with National Weather Service Forecast Offices during and following OWLeS have provided a direct pathway for results of observational and numerical modeling analyses to improve the prediction of severe lake-effect snowstorm evolution. The roles of atmospheric boundary layer processes over heterogeneous surfaces (water, ice, and land), mixed-phase microphysics within shallow convection, topography, and mesoscale convective structures are being explored. More than 75 students representing nine institutions participated in a wide variety of data collection efforts, including the operation of radars, radiosonde systems, mobile mesonets, and snow observation equipment in challenging and severe winter weather environments. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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