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RISBlocking in Areas of Complex Topography, and Its Influence on Rainfall Distribution
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Using a 6-km-resolution regional climate simulation of Southern California, the effect of orographic blocking on the precipitation climatology is examined. To diagnose whether blocking occurs, precipitating hours are ...
High-Resolution Model-Based Investigation of Moisture Transport into the Pacific Northwest during a Strong Atmospheric River Event
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractA series of precipitation events impacted the Pacific Northwest during the first two weeks of November 2006. This sequence was punctuated by a particularly potent inland-penetrating atmospheric river (AR) that ...
A Multiscale Evaluation of Multisensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimates in the Russian River Basin
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: AbstractThe Russian River in northern California is an important hydrological resource that typically depends on a few significant precipitation events per year, often associated with atmospheric rivers (ARs), to maintain ...
Our Skill in Modeling Mountain Rain and Snow is Bypassing the Skill of Our Observational Networks
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: In mountain terrain, well-configured high-resolution atmospheric models are able to simulate total annual rain and snowfall better than spatial estimates derived from in situ observational networks of precipitation gauges, ...
A Seven-Year Wind Profiler–Based Climatology of the Windward Barrier Jet along California’s Northern Sierra Nevada
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This wind profiler?based study highlights key characteristics of the barrier jet along the windward slope of California?s Sierra Nevada. Between 2000 and 2007 roughly 10% of 100 000 hourly wind profiles, recorded at two ...
Moisture Pathways into the U.S. Intermountain West Associated with Heavy Winter Precipitation Events
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: wo methods were used to identify the paths of moisture transport that reach the U.S. Intermountain West (IMW) during heavy precipitation events in winter. In the first, the top 150 precipitation events at stations located ...
High-Elevation Precipitation Patterns: Using Snow Measurements to Assess Daily Gridded Datasets across the Sierra Nevada, California
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ridded spatiotemporal maps of precipitation are essential for hydrometeorological and ecological analyses. In the United States, most of these datasets are developed using the Cooperative Observer (COOP) network of ...
Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers, the Sierra Barrier Jet, and Extreme Daily Precipitation in Northern California’s Upper Sacramento River Watershed
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he upper Sacramento River watershed is vital to California?s water supply and is susceptible to major floods. Orographic precipitation in this complex terrain involves both atmospheric rivers (ARs) and the Sierra barrier ...
Flooding in Western Washington: The Connection to Atmospheric Rivers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his study utilizes multiple decades of daily streamflow data gathered in four major watersheds in western Washington to determine the meteorological conditions most likely to cause flooding in those watersheds. Two are ...
The Landfall and Inland Penetration of a Flood-Producing Atmospheric River in Arizona. Part II: Sensitivity of Modeled Precipitation to Terrain Height and Atmospheric River Orientation
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his manuscript documents numerical modeling experiments based on a January 2010 atmospheric river (AR) event that caused extreme precipitation in Arizona. The control experiment (CNTL), using the Weather Research and ...