Abstract: The winter (December?February) of 2005/06 ranked as the driest in the instrumental record (since 1895) for nearly all regions of Arizona. The city of Phoenix, Arizona, recorded no precipitation during this time period, ...

Abstract: The presence of snow cover has been shown to modify atmospheric conditions through much of the earth?s troposphere due to its radiative effects. Snow cover has garnered much attention in recent decades as a result of ...

Abstract: his study provides a preliminary, regional assessment of the viability of using spatiotemporal lightning patterns to classify storms into single- versus multi- and supercell storm modes. Total lightning flashes (intracloud ...

Abstract: Over the past two decades a greater emphasis has been placed on the accuracy of the representation of snow cover?atmosphere interactions in weather and climate prediction models. Much of the attention centered upon snow ...

Abstract: Due to their mesoscale nature, forecasting lake-effect snowfall events is very difficult but extremely important to the inhabitants of those regions subject to this type of severe winter weather. Such is the case along the ...

Abstract: Research over the past several decades has indicated that snowfall has increased dramatically over portions of the past century across those areas of the Great Lakes region of North America that are subject to lake-effect ...

Abstract: Daily snow cover and temperature data are collected for a network of 91 stations covering the northeast United States and the association between the two is explored. Observations are examined for the six-month winter ...

Abstract: Areal extents of monthly and seasonal North American snow cover were correlated with precipitation totals, precipitation frequency, and severe weather associated with the North American monsoon. Significant relationships ...