Dataset title:

Three-dimensional wind syntheses from airborne dual-Doppler datasets obtained 
during the VORTEX project used to investigate the structure of vortex lines 
in supercell thunderstorms in the Markowski et al. (2008) study


Contact:

Paul Markowski, Professor of Meteorology, Department of Meteorology & 
Atmospheric Science, pmarkowski@psu.edu, 814-865-0428


Last updated

2017 


Summary

The dataset contains airborne Doppler radar data and gridded 3D wind syntheses 
from the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment in 
1994-1995, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
and National Science Foundation.  The dataset also includes the code used for 
the interpolation of the raw radar data to a Cartesian grid and the 
dual-Doppler wind retrieval.  The code used to construct the vortex lines 
also is included.  


Publications using these data:

Markowski, P. M., J. M. Straka, E. N. Rasmussen, R. P. Davies-Jones, 
Y. Richardson, and R. J. Trapp, 2008: Vortex lines within low-level 
mesocyclones obtained from pseudo-dual-Doppler radar observations. 
Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 3513?3535.