Abstract: Advances in remote sensing and in situ measurement techniques have revealed the full continuum of atmospheric motions and have underlined the importance of mesoscale processes. This paper examines the implications of three ...

Abstract: As part of the National Bridge Inspection Standards, owners of public bridge structures are required to perform a Fracture Critical Inspection on steel superstructures that contain primary structural elements having no ...

Abstract: Large (128 ? 128 cm) pieces of chemically treated blotting paper were exposed to rain and both the size and position of the drops were determined. Analyses were performed indicating that the spatial distribution is fractal. ...

Abstract: Recent work in GOES satellite rain amount estimation techniques suggests that these satellites primarily show skill in estimating areas of rain, rather than rain amounts directly. This hypothesis is quantitatively investigated ...

Abstract: A description is given of computer programs based on Part 1 of this paper, and some of the results of using those programs are presented.

Abstract: The standard picture of atmospheric dynamics is that of an isotropic two-dimensional large scale and an isotropic three-dimensional small scale, the two separated by a dimensional transition called the ?mesoscale gap.? ...

Abstract: An algorithm yielding probability of rain from GOES visible-infrared imagery and simultaneous radar data is applied over a satellite image the size of eastern Canada. It is then mapped by means of a conic projection an a ...

Abstract: Long and torsionally slender H-shaped cross sections, often used as tension members in truss bridges, can exhibit wind-induced torsional motions. These motions have produced high-cycle fatigue damage for some bridges. There ...

Abstract: The standard model of atmospheric motions divides the atmosphere into distinct two- and three-dimensional isotropic turbulent regimes separated by a dimensional transition, the ?mesoscale gap.? It is argued that the ?gap? ...