Monthly Weather Review back issues from April 2006:
Contrasting Characteristics of Convection over the Northern and Southern South China Sea during SCSMEX
Apr 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Observations from two enhanced sounding arrays during the May-June 1998 South China Sea Monsoon Experiment (SCSMEX) are used to determine and contrast the properties of convection over the northern and southern South China Sea (SCS). A regression analysis between SST data and ...
Interpretation of Enhanced Integrated Water Vapor Bands Associated with Extratropical Cyclones: Their Formation and Connection to Tropical Moisture
Apr 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Trajectory analysis using a weather prediction model is performed for five cases to interpret the formation of enhanced bands of vertically integrated water vapor (IWV) in the central and eastern Pacific that are frequently seen in satellite images from the Special Sensor ...
Finescale Spiral Band Features within a Numerical Simulation of Hurricane Opal (1995)
Apr 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT One of the most recognizable features associated with a well-organized tropical system are spiral rainbands. These quasi-stationary rainbands often extend hundreds of kilometers from the storm center and have been well described in the literature. Observational studies have ...
Baroclinic Development in Observations and NASA GSFC General Circulation Models
Apr 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Comparative diagnostic analyses of developing synoptic-scale baroclinic disturbances in NCEP-NCAR reanalyses and the NASA-NCAR (NASCAR) and Aries [NASA's Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP)] general circulation model simulations are performed. In particular, lag ...
An Automated High-Resolution, Rapidly Relocatable Meteorological Nowcasting and Prediction System
Apr 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT An automated, rapidly relocatable nowcasting and prediction system, whose cornerstone is the full-physics, nested-grid, nonhydrostatic fifth-generation Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research (PSU-NCAR) Mesoscale Model (MM5), has been under ...