Abstract: This study evaluates the issues of soil moisture coupling on the partitioning of surface fluxes at the diurnal timescale over a mesoscale domain from the First International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project Field ...

Abstract: While there is growing evidence that the main contribution to trends in U.S. precipitation occurs during fall, most studies of seasonal precipitation have focused on winter or summer. Here, the leading mode of fall ...

Abstract: The behavior of a numerical cloud model is investigated in terms of its sensitivity to perturbations with two kinds of lateral boundary conditions: 1) with cyclic lateral boundary conditions, the model is sensitive to many ...

Abstract: A general framework has been developed to study the predictability of space?time averages of mesoscale rainfall in the tropics. A comparative ratio between the natural variability of the rainfall process and the prediction ...

Abstract: There have been numerous attempts to detect the presence of deterministic chaos by estimating the correlation dimension. The values of reported correlation dimension for various geophysical time series vary between 1.3 and ...

Abstract: In this paper, the authors evaluate the significance of multidecadal trends in seasonal-mean summertime precipitation and precipitation characteristics over the southwestern United States using stochastic, chain-dependent ...

Abstract: AbstractA forecasting lead time of 5?10 days is desired to increase the flood response and preparedness for large river basins. Large uncertainty in observed and forecasted rainfall appears to be a key bottleneck in providing ...