Abstract: Many climatological locations report only maximum and minimum temperatures. However, in certain applications, such as estimation of design temperatures, the frequency distribution of hourly temperatures is required. For ...

Abstract: A series of simple procedures are presented for extrapolating climatic averages of humidity variables from a reference location with long-term humidity measurements to nearby higher elevation locations. The extrapolation ...

Abstract: An operational soil moisture monitoring capability for the midwestern United States is developed using a multilayer soil water balance model which incorporates daily weather data to calculate precipitation, soil evaporation, ...

Abstract: simple index of extreme surface (2 m) monthly temperature was analyzed over the conterminous United States for 13 models from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) hindcast (1981?2010) and prediction ...

Abstract: A unique rainstorm in northern Illinois produced 43 cm of precipitation in mid-July 1996, the highest 24-h precipitation amount ever recorded officially in the upper Midwest. Rains exceeding 20 cm fell over an area of 4400 ...

Abstract: ecent analyses of extreme hydrological events across the United States, including those summarized in the recent U.S. Third National Climate Assessment (May 2014), show that extremely large (extreme) precipitation and ...

Abstract: A diagnostic analysis of relationships between central U.S. climate characteristics and various flow and scalar fields was used to evaluate nine global coupled ocean?atmosphere general circulation models (CGCMs) participating ...

Abstract: All long historical climate records are based on measurements that experienced shifts in instrumentation, site characteristics, or locations. How such changes affect the quality of past data remains an uncertainty for the ...

Abstract: AbstractThe CMIP5 decadal hindcast (?Hindcast?) and prediction (?Predict?) experiment simulations from 11 models were analyzed for the United States with respect to two metrics of extreme precipitation: the 10-yr return ...

Abstract: During the last 20 years the use of climate data and information in agriculture and water resources has increased dramatically. This has resulted from vastly improved access to comprehensive datasets and climate information ...