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WISP
Contact: Dr. Roger Reinking
The Winter Icing and Storms Project is a multi-investigator program to study
the meteorological conditions that produce hazardous aircraft icing conditions
in winter storms. To a large extent, this entails forecasting and detecting
regions of supercooled liquid water in the storms. ETL's participation in the
Denver area field experiments from 1990 to 1994 included the use of
microwave radiometers
to monitor the vertically-integrated liquid water content of winter
clouds and the
NOAA/K
and
NOAA/C
radars to observe the clouds' fine-scale
internal structure and motions. A dual-wavelength technique for mapping the
liquid water regions of clouds was tested and radar polarization signatures of
water drops, and various ice crystal types were developed using theoretical
modeling and observations.
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