Skip to main content

Assessment of Nexrad Coverage and Associated Weather Services (1995) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Glossary
Pages 59-62

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 59...
... is the roughly circular area of comparatively light winds and fair weather found at the center of a severe tropical cyclone. Freezing Level: The lowest altitude in the atmosphere, over a given location, at which the air temperature is O degrees Celsius.
Read the entire page →
From page 60...
... Hurricane: Severe tropical cyclone, with winds of 74 mph or greater, occurring in the North Atiantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico. A tropical cyclone is a general term for a cyclone that originates over the tropical oceans.
Read the entire page →
From page 61...
... WSR-~8D Unit: Combination of one radar data acquisition, one radar product generator, all associated radar product generator operational positions and principal user processor, and interconnecting communications of the WSR-~8D.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • tropical cyclone
  • velocity signature
  • rising mounds
  • winds extend
  • severe tropical

  • horizontal atmospheric
  • radar product
  • vertical development
  • strong downdraft
  • product generator

  • storm type
  • atmospheric rotation
  • principal user
  • strong divergent
  • signature sometimes

  • relatively cold
  • density discontinuities
  • close range
  • mounds domes
  • occasionally tornadoes

  • damaging surface
  • operational positions
  • funnel cloud
  • thunderstorm outflow
  • roughly circular

  • radio energy
  • extensive horizontal
  • comparatively light
  • data acquisition
  • direction normal


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.