TY - JOUR
T1 - Model analysis of radar echo split observed in an artificial cloud seeding experiment
AU - Masaki, Shimada
AU - Kikuro, Tomine
AU - Koji, Nishiyama
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, The Chinese Meteorological Society and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - An artificial cloud seeding experiment was performed over the Japan Sea in winter to show how massive seeding could be effective to mitigate heavy snowfall damage. The results showed that 20 min after cloud seeding, a portion of the radar echo beneath the seeding track was weakened to divide the radar echo into two parts. In order to analyze the results, a numerical simulation was conducted by using the Weather Research and Forecasting model verion 3.5.1. In this simulation, the seeding effects were represented as phenomena capable of changing rain particles by accreting cloud ice and snow to form graupel particles and by changing cloud liquid water to snow particles. The graupel particles fell rapidly, thus temporarily intensifying the rainfall, which subsequently decreased. Therefore, the weakened radar echo in the field experiment is deemed to have been caused by the increase in rapidly falling graupel particles.
AB - An artificial cloud seeding experiment was performed over the Japan Sea in winter to show how massive seeding could be effective to mitigate heavy snowfall damage. The results showed that 20 min after cloud seeding, a portion of the radar echo beneath the seeding track was weakened to divide the radar echo into two parts. In order to analyze the results, a numerical simulation was conducted by using the Weather Research and Forecasting model verion 3.5.1. In this simulation, the seeding effects were represented as phenomena capable of changing rain particles by accreting cloud ice and snow to form graupel particles and by changing cloud liquid water to snow particles. The graupel particles fell rapidly, thus temporarily intensifying the rainfall, which subsequently decreased. Therefore, the weakened radar echo in the field experiment is deemed to have been caused by the increase in rapidly falling graupel particles.
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U2 - 10.1007/s13351-016-5053-y
DO - 10.1007/s13351-016-5053-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84978173635
SN - 2095-6037
VL - 30
SP - 386
EP - 400
JO - Journal of Meteorological Research
JF - Journal of Meteorological Research
IS - 3
ER -