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TOWARDS IMPROVED QPE BY CAPITALIZING GROUND- AND SPACE- BASED PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS
(2015-05-08)
There are primarily two types of weather radar systems offering precipitation measurements covering relatively large areas: (1) Ground-based Radar (GR) networks such as the NEXRAD and (2) Spaceborne radars onboard ...
A Comparison of Hybrid-4DEnVar and Hourly Hybrid-3DEnVar Assimilation of Tail Doppler Radar Observations on the Prediction of Rapidly Evolving Hurricanes
(2019-08-01)
Beginning in the summer of 2017 the National Weather Service upgraded the operational Hurricane WRF (HWRF) to a continuously cycled Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) based, 6-hourly, Hybrid 3-dimensional (3D) ...
Investigating Arctic Cyclone-Tropopause Polar Vortex Interactions with Observing System Simulation Experiments
(2023-05-12)
Tropopause polar vortices (TPVs) are upper-level cyclonic circulations that are common in high latitudes. TPVs most directly impact weather at the surface by providing baroclinic forcing for the development of Arctic ...
The Seasonality of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Teleconnections
(2023-08-04)
The Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) is a tropical intraseasonal phenomenon that is known to generate teleconnections like the Pacific North American and the North Atlantic Oscillation patterns in boreal winter, but knowledge ...
Examining Vulnerability to Tornadoes Using Census Tract-Level Demographic Data and Tornado Damage Survey Paths
(2019-01)
Tornadoes pose a substantial risk to life and property and while advancements in understanding of hazard evolution and forecast communication increases community resiliency, better understanding and quantification of social ...
Using Machine Learning to Predict Damaging Straight-line Convective Winds
(2016-08-12)
Thunderstorms, including straight-line (non-tornadic) winds, cause an average of over 100 deaths and $10 billion of insured damage per year in the United States. In the past decade machine learning has led to significant ...
A Comparative Convective Study Between the Ensemble Kalman Filter and the Local Particle Filter Using the Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation System
(2020-07-30)
The localized particle filter (LPF) is a recent advance in ensemble data assimilation for numerical weather prediction. Derived from the original particle filter used for highly nonlinear state variables, the LPF incorporates ...
Meteorological Benefits of Dual-Polarization, Rapid-Scanning Radar Systems on Hail Producing Storms
(2022-08-04)
Hailstorms continue to be one of the leading economic natural hazards in the United States, amounting to ten billion dollars in damage, on average, annually. Radar tech- nology is one of the best means of detecting hailstorms, ...
Observations of Evolving Lightning, Microphysics, and Kinematics for a Supercell, a Multicell, and a Mesoscale Convective System
(2019)
The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment collected data on a variety of storms to investigate the relationships between lightning and other storm processes. This study focuses on the relationships ...
Ice Crystal Size Distributions in Tropical Mesoscale Convective Systems in the Vicinity of Darwin, Australia: Results from the HAIC/HIWC Campaign
(2021-12)
Total ice water content (IWC) derived from an isokinetic evaporator probe and ice crystal size distributions measured by a two-dimensional stereo probe and precipitation imaging probe installed on the French Falcon aircraft ...