This study documents a class of squall lines that appears to be approximately two-dimensional, has a solid leading edge echo during a portion of its life cycle, and and has line-normal flow characterized by a continuous zone of negative horizontal velocity that slopes upward from the leading edge to the rear of the storm.

This paper provides a description of the Colorado State University (CSU) instrumentation and data collected during the Marine Stratocumulus Intensive Field Observations (MStCu IFO) of the first ISCCP (International Satellite Cloud Climate Program) Regional Experiment (FIRE).

Despite the general applicability of classical Ekman theory, individual observations of wind veering in the planetary boundary layer seldom exhibit the typical spiral turning with height. This study attempts to assess the reasons for these deviations from theory which occur not only as large fluctuations in time but also as significant differences in mean profiles from one location to another.

Diagnostic moisture and static energy budgets for the GATE A/B scale area are performed at individual time periods using rawinsonde, radar and satellite data.

Wind profiler data collected during FIRE-II, in November 1991, provided an opportunity for detailed observation of the passage of a warm front over Parsons, KS. Surface data, rawinsonde data and satellite observations were used to collaborate and understand the phenomena detected by the wind profiler.