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Effects of Urban Plume Aerosols on a Mesoscale Convective System
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his study examines the effects of urban aerosols on a mesoscale convective system (MCS) in the central Great Plains with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model coupled with chemistry (WRF-Chem). Urban emissions from ...
The July 2003 Dakota Hailswaths: Creation, Characteristics, and Possible Impacts
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The authors investigate the meteorology associated with two elongated swaths of crop damage produced by severe hailstorms that crossed North Dakota and South Dakota on 4 July and 20 July 2003. These hailswaths, which were ...
Influence of a Hailstreak on Boundary Layer Evolution
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Severe thunderstorms developed on 20 June 1997 and produced heavy precipitation, damaging winds, and large hail over two swaths in southeastern South Dakota. Calculations of fractional vegetation coverage (scaled from 0 ...
Effects of City Size on Thunderstorm Evolution Revealed through a Multiradar Climatology of the Central United States
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractFive years of 0.01° latitude ? 0.01° longitude multiradar multisensor grids of composite reflectivity and vertically integrated signals from the maximum expected size of hail (MESH) and vertically integrated liquid ...
Grand Challenges in Understanding the Interplay of Climate and Land Changes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: alf of Earth?s land surface has been altered by human activities, creating various consequences on the climate and weather systems at local to global scales, which in turn affect a myriad of land surface processes and the ...