Abstract: The Camp Fire of November 2018 was associated with a strong, well-forecast, downslope wind event over the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada near Paradise, California.The Camp Fire event was associated with dry, northeasterly ...

Abstract: How the time-mean Hadley and Walker circulations affect the formation of a low-level equatorial easterly jet is investigated. Experiments are conducted for equinoctial conditions using a general circulation model, the ...

Abstract: The timing and strength of surface troughs forecast by the Pennsylvania State University?National Center for Atmospheric Research fifth-generation Mesoscale Model (MM5) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's ...

Abstract: AbstractA series of large wildfires began over the terrain north of San Francisco, California, during the evening of 8 October 2017 and spread across nearly 250,000 acres, including areas near the towns of Santa Rosa and ...

Abstract: This paper examines the impacts of increasing horizontal resolution on the performance of mesoscale numerical weather prediction models. A review of previous studies suggests that decreasing grid spacing to approximately ...