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Observations of Florida Convective Storms Using Dual Wavelength Airborne RadarNASA conducted the Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers (CRYSTAL) Florida Area Cirrus Experiment (FACE) during July 2002 for improved understanding of tropical cirrus. One of the goals was to improve the understanding of cirrus generation by convective updrafts. The reasons why some convective storms produce extensive cirrus anvils is only partially related to convective instability and the vertical transport ice mass by updrafts. Convective microphysics must also have an important role on cirrus generation, for example, there are hypotheses that homogeneous nucleation in convective updrafts is a major source of anvil ice particles. In this paper, we report on one intense CRYSTAL- FACE convective case on 16 July 2002 that produced extensive anvil.
Document ID
20040171594
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Heymsfield, G. M. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Heymsfield, A. J. (National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder, CO, United States)
Belcher, L. (Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Lanham, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Meeting Information
Meeting: 14th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation
Location: Bologna
Country: Italy
Start Date: July 18, 2004
End Date: July 23, 2004
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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