Studies of Dynamics and Electrification of Deep Convection  and Mesoscale Cloud Clusters Near Darwin, Australia
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Professor Williams, collaborating with Professor Rutledge of               the Colorado State University, will participate in a thunderstorm               experiment near Darwin, Australia between November 1988 and                     February 1989.  This award will allow the two principal                         investigators to operate the MIT 5 cm radar and a network of 10                 coronal point stations in the field.  The joint operation of the                MIT radar and the NOAA TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global                          Atmosphere) 5 cm radar will provide, for the first time,                        dual-Doppler observations in the tropics.                                            The primary objective of Professors Williams and Rutledge's                research is to better understand the dynamics and electrification               of deep tropical convection and mesoscale weather systems and                   compare it with what we know of in the middle latitudes.  Since                 the field phase corresponds to the winter monsoon period in                     northern Australia, this work will also allow a comparison of the               behavior of lightning between oceanic storms, prominent during                  monsoon onset, and continental storms, prominent during monsoon                 breaks.
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