Abstract: This study presents results from an experiment conducted to measure the impact of locally initializing a numerical weather prediction model on that model?s ability to predict precipitation and other surface parameters. The ...

Abstract: This paper presents a comparison of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and rainfall for the Amazon and northeastern Brazil for the time period of 1988?90. The analysis shows that the NDVI and rainfall are ...

Abstract: In this paper a revised version of Lettau's evapoclimatonomy model is introduced. Climatonomy is a one-dimensional representation of mean climate, which includes a complete characterization of the surface energy and water ...

Abstract: A sea surface temperature (SST) analysis system designed to initialize short-term atmospheric model forecasts is evaluated for a month-long, relatively clear period in May 2004. System inputs include retrieved SSTs from ...

Abstract: he National Hurricane Center Hurricane Probability Program, which estimated the probability of a tropical cyclone passing within a specific distance of a selected set of coastal stations, was replaced by the more general ...