Abstract: Drought is an inevitable part of climate, even in regions of usually ample rainfall. Because of the effects of drought on food supply, long time series of occurrence exist in many parts of the world. Incidence is dominated ...

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Abstract: The release of isolated summer showers in the Washington D.C. area, as related to the urban heat island, was studied for nine propitious synoptic situations in 1968, 1972 and 1973. Parcel theory, using urban surface ...

Abstract: Power spectrum techniques are applied to series of daily, weekly, and monthly average temperature and precipitation values, recorded since 1870 at the Woodstock Climatological Benchmark Station in Maryland, in order to ...

Abstract: Further evidence is presented for the presence of a persistent periodicity somewhat in excess of 2 years duration. Its existence can be shown in the surface temperature at widely separated stations along two meridians from ...