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Diurnal Variation of Surface Airflow and Rainfall Frequencies on the Island of Hawaii
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The high-resolution Portable Automated Mesonet data from the Hawaiian Rainband Project are used to document the circulation over the entire island of Hawaii for the first time. It is shown that the surface airflow and ...
Diagnostic Studies of Two Contrasting Rainfall Episodes in Hawaii: Dry 1981 and Wet 1982
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The circulation features that accompanied the dry January/February of 1981 and the wet January/February of 1982 in Hawaii are compared. The results indicate that surface and upper-air circulation features are very distinct ...
Exploratory Analysis of Surface Winds in the Equatorial Western Pacific and El Niño
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Exploratory data analysis is used to examine several key characteristics of surface wind along a ship track in the equatorial western Pacific. A month-by-month examination is undertaken, based on daily ship data from a ...
A Comparison of Three Prolonged Periods of Heavy Rainfall over the Hawaiian Islands
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: he anomalous circulation patterns during an unusually prolonged stormy-weather period in Hawaii from 19 February to 2 April 2006 are analyzed and are compared with those of two previously known prolonged heavy-rainfall ...