Electrical Structure of Large Overwater Shower Clouds.

Abstract

Three instrumented aircraft were used to study the development and separation of charge in large clouds. Basic cloud physics data regarding liquid water content, icing rate, temperature, precipitation forms, cloud photography, airborne radar cross sections, and three components of electric field were obtained from a C-130 aircraft. Two electric field components, temperatures, photography, and draft structure were obtained from an F-100F aircraft. A U-2 aircraft provided field data above the storms.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 19, 1974
Accession Number
ADA002368

Entities

People

  • Donald R. Fitzgerald

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Aircrafts
  • Cloud Physics
  • Clouds
  • Electric Fields
  • Mechanical Structure
  • Photographic Equipment
  • Photographic Materials
  • Photographic Recording Media
  • Photography
  • Physics
  • Precipitation
  • Radar Cross Sections

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Aviation Science / Aeronautics.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Solar Physics