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Diana Wilson

Executive in Residence in the Pratt School of Engineering
Pratt School of Engineering

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Executive in Residence in the Pratt School of Engineering · 2025 - Present Pratt School of Engineering

Recent Publications


Orographic land-atmosphere interactions and the diurnal cycle of low-level clouds and fog

Journal Article Journal of Hydrometeorology · May 1, 2017 Previous work illuminated landform controls on moisture convergence in the southern Appalachian Mountains (SAM) promoting heterogeneity in the vertical structure of low-level clouds (LLC) and seeder-feeder interactions (SFI) that significantly impact warm ... Full text Cite

Landform controls on low level moisture convergence and the diurnal cycle of warm season orographic rainfall in the Southern Appalachians

Journal Article Journal of Hydrology · December 1, 2015 The Advanced Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was used to simulate two warm season events representative of reverse orographic enhancement of warm season precipitation in the Southern Appalachians under weak (9-12 July, 2012) and strong (12-16 ... Full text Cite

Scoping a field experiment: Error diagnostics of TRMM precipitation radar estimates in complex terrain as a basis for IPHEx2014

Journal Article Hydrology and Earth System Sciences · March 25, 2015 A diagnostic analysis of the space-time structure of error in quantitative precipitation estimates (QPEs) from the precipitation radar (PR) on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission (TRMM) satellite is presented here in preparation for the Integrated Pr ... Full text Cite
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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2004 A.B.