Abstract: The Department of Meteorology at the University of Maryland is developing one of the first computer. systems in meteorology to take advantage of the new networked computer architecture that has been made possible by recent ...

Abstract: The random errors contained in a finite set E of precipitation estimates result from both finite sampling and measurement?algorithm effects. The expected root-mean-square random error associated with the estimated average ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the following open question: What set of error metrics for satellite rainfall data can advance the hydrologic application of new-generation, high-resolution rainfall products over land? The authors? ...

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Abstract: Observations show that cumulus clouds often occur in long-lived mesoscale groups, or clumps. Five possible explanations of clumping are surveyed. The ?mutual protection hypothesis,? that clumps occur because cumulus clouds ...

Abstract: A scheme developed at the University of Maryland is described to illustrate the high-level design decisions which must be made in order to fully utilize the asynchronous character-oriented data transmitted over the Domestic ...

Abstract: Hydrologists and other users need to know the uncertainty of the satellite rainfall datasets across the range of time?space scales over the whole domain of the dataset. Here, ?uncertainty? refers to the general concept of ...

Abstract: About 30% of freezing precipitation cases are observed to occur in a subfreezing atmosphere (contrary to the classical melting ice model). We explain these cases with the concept of the ?supercolled warm rain process? ...

Abstract: A cumulus cloud's size, shape and internal properties can be predicted, provided that the rate of entrainment is determined by a suitable entrainment parameterization theory. A cumulus cloud model based on such a theory ...

Abstract: The equivalent brightness temperature Tb recorded by geosynchronous infrared (geo-IR) ?window? channel (10.7?11.5 ?m) satellite sensors is shown to depend on the zenith angle (local angle from the zenith to the satellite ...