Studies of Dynamics and Electrification of Deep Convection and Mesoscaee Cloud Cluster Near Darwin Australia

拉特利奇教授与 马萨诸塞州理工学院的威廉姆斯将 在达尔文附近参加雷暴实验， 澳大利亚，1988年11月至1989年2月。 这 该合同将允许两名主要调查人员 麻省理工学院5厘米雷达和10个日冕点网络 现场的车站。 MIT雷达的联合作战 和NOAA TOGA（热带海洋和全球大气）5 厘米雷达将首次提供双多普勒 在热带的观察 威廉姆斯教授和 拉特利奇的研究是为了更好地了解动态， 热带深对流和中尺度对流的电气化 天气系统，并将其与我们所知道的 中纬度地区 由于场相位对应于 在澳大利亚北方的冬季风期间，这项工作将 也允许比较的行为闪电之间 海洋风暴，在季风爆发期间突出， 大陆风暴，在季风中断期间突出。

Professor Rutledge, collaborating with Professor Williams of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will participate in a thunderstorm experiment near Darwin, Australia between November 1988 and February 1989. This award will allow the two principal investigators to operate the MIT 5 cm radar and a network of 10 coronal point stations in the field. The joint operation of the MIT radar and the NOAA TOGA (Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere) 5 cm radar will provide, for the first time, Dual-Doppler observations in the tropics. The primary objective of Professors Williams and Rutledge's research is to better understand the dynamics and electrification oof deep tropical convection and mesoscale weather systems and ccompare it with what we know of in the middle latitudes. Since the field phase corresponds to the winter monsoon period in northern Australia, this work will also allow a comparison of the behavior of lightning between oceanic storms, prominent during monsoon onset, and continental storms, prominent during monsoon breaks.