On the Differences in Storm Rainfall from Hurricanes Isidore and Lili....

Weather and Forecasting;  February 1, 2008 ;   Jiang, Haiyan; Halverson, Jeffrey B; Simpson, Joanne;   787 words ......rainfall accumulation history and rainfall potential history of two North Atlantic hurricanes...rain over the open gulf. Average rainfall potential during the 4 days before landfall...translation speed information. The rainfall potential histories of a dozen tropical cyclones...

CORRIGENDUM

Journal of Climate;  October 15, 2007 ;   Field, Paul R; Wood, Robert;   350 words ......the processing that affected only the rainfall rates given in Field and Wood (2007). However...conveyor belt model to explain the rainfall rates remains unchanged upon correcting this...temperature could not be retrieved, where rainfall rates exceed 48 mm day^sup -1^ (Wentz and...

Comments on "Rainfall Modification by Major Urban Areas: Observations from...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 2004 ;   Diem, Jeremy E; Coleman, Lakeisha B; Digirolamo, Paul A; Gowens, Colin W; Et al;   787 words ......about 28% in monthly satellite-derived rainfall rates within 30-60 km downwind of the cities...indicates that mean satellite-derived rainfall rates to the southeast of the city are 20...continuous data, spatial variations in rainfall rates can be discerned much more clearly...

The Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Technique. Part II: Validation

Weather and Forecasting;  August 1, 2005 ;   Ferraro, Ralph; Pellegrino, Paul; Turk, Michael; Chen, Wanchun; Et al;   787 words ......NESDIS) routinely generate 24-h rainfall potential for all tropical systems that are...estimates, known as the tropical rainfall potential (TRaP), are generated in an objective...to get a better assessment of the rainfall potential of systems that are approaching land...

FORECASTERS MAY SOON ADD RAIN DANGER TO PREDICTIONS.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 1, 1998 ;     180 words ......National Hurricane Center, agreed that the idea of adding rainfall potential to warnings is under study. Hurricanes now are rated on...scale, which is based on wind speed but does not consider rainfall potential. Jarrell said his center is not about to toss out the...

60- to 1-Min Rainfall-Rate Conversion: Comparison of Existing Prediction...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  March 1, 2008 ;   Mandeep, J S; Hassan, S I S;   787 words ......desired 1-min distributions is needed. Several methods for converting 60-min rainfall rates to 1-min rainfall rates are tested against measured rainfall rates from tropical, high-rainfall-rate regions. Segal's method was found to perform...

Hurricane "Rainfall Potential" Derived from Satellite Observations Aids...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  April 1, 2008 ;   Jiang, Haiyan; Halverson, Jeffrey B; Simpson, Joanne; Zipser, Edward J;   787 words ......overland conditions is much weaker. The rainfall potential is defined by using the satellite-deriv...examines the capability of the overocean rainfall potential to predict a storm's likelihood of...index is introduced based on the rainfall potential study. This index can be used to...

Impacts of SSM/I retrieved rainfall rates on numerical prediction of a...

Monthly Weather Review;  June 1, 1996 ;   Melinda S Peng; Simon W Chang;   787 words ......Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) retrieved rainfall rates were assimilated into a limited-area...for this study. The SSM/I retrieved rainfall rates within 888 km (8 deg latitude) of the...model generates the SSM/I-observed rainfall rates. This scheme is applied through two...

WEEK'S WORTH OF SHOWERS BEGINS.(News)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  February 21, 2004 ;     304 words ......this storm, the potential exists for rainfall rates high enough to cause significant runoff...least noon Sunday, the agency said, rainfall rates could approach half an inch per hour...Ventura counties. ``With such potential rainfall rates, the burn areas and locations immediately...

SHORT TERM FORECAST

United Press International;  December 13, 1999 ;     325 words ......and tappahannock... Through midnight. Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour...virginia eastern shore through midnight. Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour...and more wide spread around Midnight. Rainfall rates will be a tenth of an inch per hour...

The Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Technique. Part I: Description and...

Weather and Forecasting;  August 1, 2005 ;   Kidder, Stanley Q; Kusselson, Sheldon J; Knaff, John A; Ferraro, Ralph R; Et al;   787 words ......to life and property. The tropical rainfall potential (TRaP) technique, which couples satellite...much higher. Thus, forecasting the rainfall potential of tropical cyclones has taken on...source of data in forecasting tropical rainfall potential (TRaP), or the amount of rain to...

Variational retrieval of temperature and humidity profiles from TRMM...

Monthly Weather Review;  November 1, 2000 ;   Marecal, Virginie; Mahfouf, Jean-Francois;   787 words ......Measuring Mission satellite-derived surface rainfall rates from the Microwave Imager TMI. Temperature...large departures from the observed rainfall rates or having too little sensitivity of...Accurate measurements of satellite-derived rainfall rates provided by TRMM could be used in ...

Hurricane season officially ends Government boasts about accurate...

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 1, 1999 ;   LEE BOWMAN;   457 words ......They said they're working to make their predictions of rainfall potential from storms more specific and meaningful to local emergency...with Doppler radar and computer models to calculate the rainfall potential of any storm system," said James Baker, head of the National...

Eyewitness NEWS: Stormteam WEATHER; WCHS - FOX 11; Tony Mainolfi's Outlook

Charleston Gazette;  April 28, 2005 ;     49 words ......Rain becomes heavy at times tonight into early Saturday. Lows tonight near 50. High Saturday in the mid-60s. Sunday looks dry with highs in the mid-60s. Stay tuned to the Eyewitness News Storm Team for updates on the heavy rainfall potential.

Rainfall Profiling Using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program...

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology;  November 1, 2006 ;   Matrosov, Sergey Y; May, Peter T; Shupe, Matthew D;   787 words ......stratiform events with low-to-moderate rainfall rates (~5 mm h^sup -1^) to heavy convective rains with rainfall rates approaching 100 mm h^sup -1^. The...expressed in both instantaneous rainfall rates and in rainfall accumulations are...