Abstract
On 5 December 1997, the NCAR ELDORA airborne radar and in situ observations indicated that snow from a high-level cloud deck associated with a departure cyclone was seeding a growing lake-effect snowstorm over Lake Michigan. Where the University of Wyoming King Air research plane took measurements in the storm that day, the Green Bay, Wisconsin, WSR-88D radar was only able to detect snow from the higher-level clouds. By combining these observations, the flight legs of the King Air were separated into seeded and non-seeded portions. Comparison of the observations in seeded and non-seeded portions made it possible to quantify the effects of the seeding process in the lake-effect boundary layer and snowfall.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1184-1185 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| State | Published - Sep 2006 |
| Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atmospheric Science