Abstract: ecent studies indicate that strong cold fronts develop frequently downstream of the Sierra Nevada over the Intermountain West. To help ascertain why, this paper examines the influence of the Sierra Nevada on the rapidly ...

Abstract: his study evaluates the sensitivity of wind turbine hub-height wind speed forecasts to the planetary boundary layer (PBL) scheme, grid length, and initial condition selection in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) ...

Abstract: High-resolution analyses and MesoWest surface observations are used to examine the life cycle and mesoscale frontal structure of the ?Tax Day Storm,? an intermountain cyclone that produced the second lowest sea level ...

Abstract: AbstractThis study evaluates the grid-length dependency of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model precipitation performance for two cases in the Southern Great Plains of the United States. The aim is to investigate ...

Abstract: AbstractWeather-station data coverage, quality, and completeness across British Columbia, Canada, degrade outside of population centers and as one goes back in time. This data paucity motivates the search for the best ...

Abstract: This study evaluates how well reanalyses represent daily and multiday accumulated precipitation (hereinafter daily PCP) over British Columbia, Canada (Part I evaluated 2-m temperature). Reanalyses are compared with ...

Abstract: Spurious grid-scale precipitation (SGSP) occurs in many mesoscale numerical weather prediction models when the simulated atmosphere becomes convectively unstable and the convective parameterization fails to relieve the ...

Abstract: s cloud-service providers like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft decrease costs and increase performance, numerical weather prediction (NWP) in the cloud will become a reality not only for research use but for real-time use ...

Abstract: his work evaluates the use of a WRF ensemble for short-term, probabilistic, hub-height wind speed forecasts in complex terrain. Testing for probabilistic-forecast improvements is conducted by increasing the number of ...