Investigations of the Mesoscale and Microscale Structure of Midwest Winter Cyclonic Storms
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Due to the potential for disruption of human and economic                  activities, the precipitation characteristics of winter-time                    cyclones are                                                                    of great practical as well as scientific interest.  It has been                 know for                                                                        some time that the heaviest precipitation from these systems                    occurs in                                                                       relatively narrow precipitation bands.                                               Over the past several years, the organization of                           precipitation bands                                                             in cyclonic storms has received a great deal of attention with a                variety                                                                         of physical mechanisms being proposed to explain the                            characteristics of                                                              these bands.  Interestingly, most of these observational studies                of                                                                              bandedness in winter cyclonic storms have been conducted in                     coastal                                                                         regions which experience quite different meteorological                         conditions than                                                                 the mid-continental area.                                                            The principal Investigators propose a pilot observational                  and                                                                             numerical modelling study in Illinois to begin to define the                    characteristics of mid-continent cyclonic precipitation bands.                  The                                                                             observational component of this research will involve enhanced                  serial                                                                          sounding of the atmosphere and two advanced instruments for                     meteorological research -- wind profiler and Doppler radar.  A                  major                                                                           focus is to relate the organization and structure of                            precipitation bands                                                             to flow fields and thermodynamic structure of larger scale                      phenomena                                                                       such as fronts, lower and upper level jet streams, and zones of                 deformation flow.
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