Abstract: A small subset of midlatitude, midwinter precipitation events affecting the central Sierra Nevada are analyzed. The examples given are representative of 60% of the storm types documented during the past 4 yr of the Sierra ...

Abstract: Data-mining methods are applied to numerical weather prediction (NWP) output and satellite data to develop automated algorithms for the diagnosis of cloud ceiling height in regions where no local observations are available ...

Abstract: AbstractDuring the spring and summer months, the greater Caribbean region typically experiences pulses of moderate to heavy episodes of airborne African dust concentrations that originate over the Sahara Desert and propagate ...

Abstract: Under the auspices of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System's (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed ?NexSat? (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nex ...