Abstract: An explicit cloud prediction model has been developed and incorporated into the Eta Model at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction. In this scheme, only one predictive variable, cloud mixing ratio, is added to ...

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Abstract: Sixty-eight comma-cloud systems over the Great Plains during two spring seasons were examined using satellite imagery and rawinsonde data. Composite soundings were produced for each of ten distinct parts of the comma cloud ...

Abstract: A limited primitive equation model has been used to study the feasibility of four-dimensional data assimilation in the monsoon region and, further, to study the applicability of several assimilation techniques currently ...

Abstract: The problem of four-dimensional data assimilation in the tropics has been studied using a limited-area primitive equation model. Of prime concern is the relative importance of different update variables and their impact ...

Abstract: The pretropical storm Agnes rainstorm across western New York and Pennsylvania is analyzed using conventional surface and aerological data. Hourly precipitation maps and surface maps showed the north-eastward motion and ...

Abstract: The problem of rainfall prediction for a tropical storm over the United States is examined from a diagnostic point of view. A moisture budget is constructed and the differences between the computed and observed precipitation ...

Abstract: Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning data are examined relative to digitized radar data for a storm system that occurred in Oklahoma on 26 May 1985. This system evolved through three stages: 1) two lines of cells, one near the ...

Abstract: Kinematic and thermodynamic quantities derived from wind profiler triangles are used to help describe the structure of both an amplifying and decaying baroclinic wave as they traversed portions of the wind profiler ...

Abstract: The Regional Analysis and Forecast System at the National Meteorological Center consists of an optimum interpolation objective analysis scheme, an adiabatic nonlinear normal model initialization (NNMI) and a hemispheric ...