James W. Wilson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors find that both confusion and misunderstanding exist about the inherent ability of radar to measure rainfall, about factors that contribute to errors, and about the importance of careful calibration and signal processing.

TL;DR: The origin of 653 convective storms occurring over a 5000 km2 area immediately east of the Colorado Rocky Mountains from 18 May to 15 August 1984 was examined in this article, where the authors found that nearly nine percent of the 418 storms that initiated within the study area occurred in close proximity to radar-observed boundary layer convergence lines.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the status of forecasting convective precipitation for time periods less than a few hours (nowcasting), and developed techniques for nowcasting thunderstorm location were developed in the 1960s and 1970s by extrapolating radar echoes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the recent progress and discussed some of the challenges for future advancement in the use of high-resolution numerical weather prediction (NWP) for nowcasting.

TL;DR: In this paper, a total of 27 visual vortices were studied and they appeared to form as shear instabilities along radar detected convergence lines, and then they became colocated with the updraft of a rapidly developing storm.