CaPE project description

Convection and Precipitation/Electrification Experiment

Summary

Convective precipitation field experiment conducted in east central Florida.

Objectives:

1. Identify relationships between co-evolving wind, water, and electric fields within convective clouds.
2. Determine the meteorological and electrical conditions in which natural and triggered lightning can/cannot occur.
3. Develop mesoscale numerical forecasts (2-12 hr) of wind, clouds, and thunderstorms, employing data assimilation.
4. Improve techniques for performing short-term forecasts of convective initiation, downbursts, and tornadoes.
5. Characterize precipitation particles and remote estimation of rainfall.

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Additional Information

Related links:

info: CLASS Sounding Skew-T Plots and Analyses
info: CP2
info: CP3
info: CP4
info: Video Log
homepage: CaPE
download: KingAir

Temporal coverage

Begin date: 1991-07-08 00:00:00, End date: 1991-08-18 23:59:59

Spatial coverage

Minimum latitude: 27.000000, Minimum longitude: -84.000000
Maximum latitude: 30.000000, Maximum longitude: -80.000000