Abstract: One of the most visible and widely felt impacts of climate warming is the change (mostly loss) of low-elevation snow cover in the midlatitudes. Snow cover that accumulates at temperatures close to the ice-water phase ...

Abstract: The demand for climatological precipitation fields on a regular grid is growing dramatically as ecological and hydrological models become increasingly linked to geographic information systems that spatially represent and ...

Abstract: This paper presents and evaluates a method for the construction of long-range and wide-area temporal spatial datasets of daily precipitation and temperature (maximum and minimum). This method combines the interpolation of ...

Abstract: High-quality, daily meteorological data at high spatial resolution are essential for a variety of hydrologic and ecological modeling applications that support environmental risk assessments and decision making. This paper ...

Abstract: The spatial variability of 58 precipitation and temperature parameters from the ?generation of weather elements for multiple applications? (GEM) weather generator has been investigated over a region of significant complexity ...

Abstract: A dry three-dimensional mesoscale model was used to study the diurnal cycle of mountain-valley winds in the southern San Joaquin Valley during a summer day. A scheme for interpolating potential temperature was developed ...

Abstract: The Cooperative Observer Program (COOP), established over 100 years ago, has become the backbone of temperature and precipitation data that characterize means, trends, and extremes in U.S. climate. However, significant and ...

Abstract: n the arid western United States, wildlife water developments, or ?guzzlers,? are important water sources for wildlife, and consist of impermeable roof structures designed to intercept precipitation and small tanks for ...

Abstract: n many regions of the world, the extremes of winter cold are a major determinant of the geographic distribution of perennial plant species and of their successful cultivation. In the United States, the U.S. Department of ...

Abstract: laska encompasses several climate types because of its vast size, high-latitude location, proximity to oceans, and complex topography. There is a great need to understand how climate varies regionally for climatic research ...