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Lake Ontario Winter Storms (LOWS) project: inventory of data from NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory instrumentation
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1990
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Description:Banded snowstorms generated over Lake Ontario frequently produce localized but extremely heavy precipitation and blizzard conditions including whiteouts inland from the leeside shores. Also on a mesoscale, hazardous freezing rain frequently impacts the same region in winter. A consortium of scientists from the government, universities and private industry, led by NOAA's Wave Propagation Laboratory, conducted the field phase of the Lake Ontario Winter Storms (LOWS) Project in the Lake Ontario basin between 5
January and 1 March 1990 to study these severe weather phenomena. The project focused on providing the specialized instrumentation and knowledge for making accurate 0-12 h forecasts of the severe but shallow lake-effect storms and subsynoptic aspects of freezing rain, which are not routinely resolved or observed with standard meteorological tools. LOWS is an exercise in basic weather science and in the demonstration and transfer of new remote sensing technologies developed at the NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory (WPL) to a private industry, the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation (the primary sponsor of LOWS), and to other potential users, including the National Weather Service. This report is an inventory of the data collected with NOAA/WPL instrumentation used in LOWS: a X-band, dualpolarization, Doppler radar; a three-channel, steerable microwave radiometer; and a 915 MHz wind profiling radar. Inventories of data collected by the other organizations of the consortium will be published in parallel reports.
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