Abstract: Three charts of the contiguous United States show (1) the percentage of mean annual total precipitation contributed by daily amounts of 0.50 in. or greater, (2) the average annuaal accumulation of these daily amounts, and ...

Abstract: Three demands for wet-deposition data and dry-deposition data are particularly important at the present time: 1) the analysis of long-term trends to evaluate the consequences of emission changes, 2) the measurement of ...

Abstract: sing 13 yr of satellite observations for the Tibetan Plateau, the sensitivities (or partial derivatives) of daytime surface downward shortwave and longwave fluxes with respect to changes in cloud cover and cloud optical ...

Abstract: In this study seven dust intrusion events were identified and analyzed in the central and eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea beginning August 1988 and ending September 1989. In order to locate their sources, characterize ...

Abstract: Rainfall data collected at 67 gages in a 2750 mi2 target area during a four-year randomized cloud seeding experiment in North Dakota have been stratified in a variety of ways and subjected to several kinds of statistical ...

Abstract: Four seasons of hail data were gathered on a randomized cloud seeding project aimed at reducing hail damage and increasing rainfall in western North Dakota. Hail on seed days was generally less severe than on no-seed days. ...

Abstract: arge-scale cultivation of perennial bioenergy crops (e.g., miscanthus and switchgrass) offers unique opportunities to mitigate climate change through avoided fossil fuel use and associated greenhouse gas reduction. Although ...