Use of the vorticity equation in dual-doppler analysis of the vertical...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......emphasis on improving retrievals of the vertical velocity field. Several new techniques in...vorticity equation is used to obtain the vertical velocity boundary condition field required...condition fields required when the vertical velocity is expressed in a "weak constraint...

Vertical Velocity roller coaster now loading

News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  May 25, 2001 ;     656 words ......woman in front of me Thursday on Vertical Velocity, the new major player on the Great...would be fast, high and jolting. Vertical Velocity is known to those closest to it as...Until Deja Vu opens next month, Vertical Velocity will have to go it alone in handling...

Drum roll for Gurnee fun park

News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  May 4, 2001 ;     619 words ......forms for concrete at the exit to Vertical Velocity, a new roller coaster ride, Thursday at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. Vertical Velocity will debut later this season...No, the two new roller coasters, Vertical Velocity and Deja Vu, aren't quite ready for...

Mass-flux budgets of shallow cumulus clouds

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......conditionally sampling the prognostic vertical velocity equation by means of a large eddy...budgets of the mass flux and the vertical velocity variance show that they appear to...Entrainment and detrainment rates for the vertical velocity equation are presented. They are...

Loops, lunges

News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  March 2, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Flags park. This coaster and another, Vertical Velocity, will be in place for the upcoming...Flags Great America in Gurnee. -- Vertical Velocity, one of two new coasters to be added...Flags Great America: Deja Vu and Vertical Velocity, a pair of forward-and-back roller...

Spaceborne Doppler Radar Measurements of Rainfall: Correction of Errors...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......m s^sup -1^ accuracy on rainfall vertical velocity estimates. (ProQuest Information...transportation in the atmosphere. The vertical velocity signature of different hydrometeors...2004) have proven that the average vertical velocity can indeed be measured to the 1 m...

Relationship between the vertical velocity skewness and kurtosis observed...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......ABSTRACT Fourth-order moments of vertical velocity in the convective boundary layer...skewness and kurtosis. Moments of vertical velocity up to the fourth order are computed...conditions. A similar formula for CBL vertical velocity was in fact proposed by Alberghi...

Vertical velocities and transports in the equatorial Pacific during...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......these regions. Both the total vertical velocity and the cross-isopycnal component of the vertical velocity (approximated by the cross-isothermal...s^sup -1^. Variability in the vertical velocity is large relative to the mean...

Mean vertical velocities measured by Indian MST radar and comparison with...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......except in a small region where radar vertical velocity changes in sign from negative to...tend to approach the shape of radar vertical velocity profiles as the separation of the...after 3-h average). 1. Introduction Vertical velocity is an important dynamical parameter...

Buoyancy of Convective Vertical Motions in the Inner Core of Intense...

Monthly Weather Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......criteria that the convective-scale vertical velocity must exceed 1.0 m s^sup -1^ for at...Characteristics of core average convective vertical velocity, maximum convective vertical velocity, and diameter are consistent with...

Modeling tropical precipitation in a single column

Journal of Climate;  December 15, 2000 ;     700+ words ......temperature, rather than its mean vertical velocity, is prescribed. This allows the precipitation and vertical velocity to be true prognostic variables...This choice implies that the vertical velocity must be specified in such models...

Swimming and Buoyancy in Ontogenetic Stages of the Cushion Star Pteraster...

The Biological Bulletin;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......settlement will depend, in part, on their vertical velocity and on the turbulence in the water...For eggs and unhatched stages, vertical velocity is passive and depends on egg or...seawater [6, 7]. For motile stages, vertical velocity depends on relative density, swimming...

Considerations in the calculation of vertical velocity in...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Learning: Formula Omitted) ABSTRACT The vertical velocity, w, in three-dimensional circulation...different approaches for calculating vertical velocity fields by solving the three-dimensional...Haidvogel and Beckmann 1999), the vertical velocity is determined from the ...

Vertical Velocity and Vertical Heat Flux Observed within Loop Current...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  November 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......useful for directly measuring the vertical velocity within mesoscale anticyclonic eddies...significant and coherent signals of vertical velocity ~2-3 mm s^sup -1^ and vertical heat...Haren et al. 2005), tidally induced vertical velocity (Marsden et al. 1994), convection...

Large-Eddy Simulation: How Large is Large Enough?

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......virtual potential temperature and the vertical velocity fields are dominated by horizontal...cooled cases it is found that both the vertical velocity as well as the virtual potential...vertical stratification is stable, vertical velocity variance and virtual potential temperature...