Abstract: Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) imagery from 3 May 1999 is examined. Synoptic-scale water vapor imagery shows a deepening low-amplitude upper-level trough over the western United States on 3 May, ...

Abstract: ynoptic weather, S-band dual-polarization radar, and total lightning observations are analyzed from four thunderstorms that produced ?plowable? hail accumulations of 15?60 cm in localized areas of the Colorado Front Range. ...

Abstract: AbstractIn recent years, hail accumulations from thunderstorms have occurred frequently enough to catch the attention of the National Weather Service, the general public, and news agencies. Despite the extreme nature of ...

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Abstract: he accurate and timely depiction of the state of the atmosphere on multiple scales is critical to enhance forecaster situational awareness and to initialize very short-range numerical forecasts in support of nowcasting ...

Abstract: What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service doing in these times of rapidly changing technology and falling budgets to maintain high training standards? One solution used by ...

Abstract: Antenna temperatures and the corresponding geolocation data from the five sources of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F11 satellite have been characterized. Data ...