Abstract: The diurnal cycle of warm-season precipitation in the Rocky Mountains and adjacent Great Plains of the United States is examined using a numerical modeling framework designed to isolate the role of terrain-influenced ...

Abstract: The western and central United States experience a pronounced diurnal cycle in rainfall during the warm season. Over the higher terrain west of 105°W, most precipitation occurs in the afternoon, whereas the central United ...

Abstract: A large-domain explicit convection simulation is used to investigate the life cycle of nocturnal convection for a one-week period of successive zonally propagating heavy precipitation episodes occurring over the central ...

Abstract: Herein preliminary findings are reported from a radar-based climatology of warm season precipitation ?episodes.? Episodes are defined as time?space clusters of heavy precipitation that often result from sequences of organized ...