Abstract: Estimating rain rate from environmental microwave emissions is hampered by several difficulties. One of these difficulties is known as the beam-filling effect. Beam filling is the systematic error introduced when the ...

Abstract: Geopotential height fluctuations are examined in the extratropical Southern Hemisphere on the 35?60 day time scale. These fluctuations, in 200 mb geopotential height one-point correlation maps and anomaly maps, are shown ...

Abstract: A 40?50 day atmospheric oscillation has recently been reported in the southeastern Pacific based on analyses of satelete-detived microwave brightness temperature data. Prior to this, such oscillations have not been generally ...

Abstract: Characteristics of surface water vapor deposition (WVD) over the continental United States under the present climate and a future climate scenario reflecting the mid-twenty-first-century increased greenhouse gas concentrations ...

Abstract: A 30-yr climatology of the snow-to-liquid-equivalent ratio (SLR) using the National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Summary of the Day (COOP) data is presented. Descriptive statistics are presented for 96 NWS county ...

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Abstract: A case study of a long, narrow band of heavy snowfall is presented that illustrates those processes that force and focus the precipitation in a unique linear fashion. System-relative flow on isentropic surfaces shows how ...

Abstract: The spatial and temporal characteristics of rainfall over Oklahoma and Kansas are analyzed in this paper using the raingage data collected during the Preliminary Regional Experiment for STORM-Central (PRESTORM). The ...

Abstract: Twenty-one warm-season heavy-rainfall events in the central United States produced by mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) that developed above and north of a surface boundary are examined to define the environmental ...