Weekly Meeting 19May2017
Correlation between weekly mean CFSR SCP and LSR o Total field
o Anomaly field
o Spearman rank correlation o Kendall Tau rank correlation
SCP: Supercell composite parameter (Carbin et al. 2016)
SCP = (CAPE/1000 J kg1) × (SRH/50 m2 s2) × (BWD/20 m s1)
Daily average from 6-hourly data, 12UTC to 12UTC SCP ≥ 1: Severe weather
LSR: Local Storm Report (hail, tornado, wind)
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C = Concordant Pairs D = Discordant Pairs
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C = Concordant Pairs D = Discordant Pairs
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