Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleHydrology 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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Journal ArticleJournal 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 ...
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