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Diana Wilson

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

Selected 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

An investigation of warm rainfall microphysics in the southern Appalachians: Orographic enhancement via low-level seeder-feeder interactions

Journal Article Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences · January 1, 2014 Observations of the vertical structure of rainfall, surface rain rates, and drop size distributions (DSDs) in the southern Appalachians were analyzed with a focus on the diurnal cycle of rainfall. In the inner mountain region, a 5-yr high-elevation rain ga ... Full text Cite

Describing the shape of raindrop size distributions using uncorrelated raindrop mass spectrum parameters

Journal Article Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology · January 1, 2014 Rainfall retrieval algorithms often assume a gamma-shaped raindrop size distribution (DSD) with three mathematical parametersNw,Dm, and μ. If only two independentmeasurements are available, as with the dualfrequency precipitation rada ... Full text Cite