{"id":18611,"date":"2021-05-06T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2021-05-06T21:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:10:01","slug":"udcz-and-beam-blockage-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2021\/05\/06\/udcz-and-beam-blockage-example\/","title":{"rendered":"UDCZ and beam blockage example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18612 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1.png 1280w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1-900x506.png 900w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1-600x338.png 600w, https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_1-1200x675.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 60vw, 720px\" \/><\/a>Below is a snippet of NMDA and NTDA detections. This area corresponds to the white rectangles in the upper left panels of the figure above.\u00a0 The columns are labelled by elevation slice. There\u2019s a lot going on here: unambiguous range issues, beam blockage at lower elevations, and a very strong Updraft\/Downdraft Convergence Zone (UDCZ) that is also producing noisy velocity data at the UDCZ interface (ref. Spectrum Width in bottom row).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-18613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2021\/05\/udcz_beam_blockage_20210505_marfafront_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-marfafront<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is a snippet of NMDA and NTDA detections. This area corresponds to the white rectangles in the upper left panels of the figure above.\u00a0 The columns are labelled by&#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/2021\/05\/06\/udcz-and-beam-blockage-example\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,79],"class_list":["post-18611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nmda","tag-ntda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18702,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18611\/revisions\/18702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/ewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}