A census of precipitation features in the tropics using TRMM: Radar, ice...

Journal of Climate;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......an ensemble of thunderstorms and produces a contiguous precipitation area -100 km or more in horizontal scale in at least one direction...250 K) of a system is almost always smaller than the precipitation area, the MZ (1996) criteria are roughly analogous to the Houze...

Liquid permeable casing sheet.

Medical Textiles;  November 1, 2000 ;     581 words ......outside the openings runs down into the wave troughs. The sheet layer will be felt to be...casing sheet is extremely small . The wave troughs also function as liquid reservoirs when...liquid permeable material fastened to the wave troughs of the first layer. The flat, second...

Comments on "statistical single-station short-term forecasting of...

Weather and Forecasting;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...We offer the following comments on the recent paper by Raible et al. (1999), hereafter referred to as RB99. Their paper argues the case for implementing short-term (defined by RB99 as 0-24 h) statistical methods for single-station and areal forecasting. RB99 describe how they set up the statistical

A texture-polarization method for estimating convective-stratiform...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Observational and modeling studies have revealed the relationships between convective-stratiform rain proportion and the vertical distributions of vertical motion, latent heating, and moistening in mesoscale convective systems. Therefore, remote sensing techniques that can be used to

Statistical single-station short-term forecasting of temperature and...

Weather and Forecasting;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Two statistical single-station short-term forecast schemes are introduced and applied to real-time weather prediction. A multiple regression model (R model) predicting the temperature anomaly and a multiple regression Markov model (M model) forecasting the probability of precipitation are

The Behavior of Synoptic-Scale Errors in the Eta Model

Monthly Weather Review;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of 44 well-defined upper-level short-wave troughs arriving on the west coast of the United...of behavior. Thus, landfalling short-wave troughs were typically underforecast (positive...Nevertheless, some errors in short-wave troughs were not corrected as they fell under...

Global Distribution of Tropical Deep Convection: Different Perspectives...

Journal of Climate;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......temperature at 10.80-m wavelength (T^sub B11^) less than or equal to 210 and 235 K. Then the precipitation radar (PR)-observed precipitation area and reflectivity profiles inside CCFs are summarized and compared with the area and minimum temperature of the CCFs. Comparing...

Interaction of potential vorticity anomalies in extratropical...

Monthly Weather Review;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......importance of two PV anomalies associated with the short-wave troughs and their interaction in the surface cyclogenesis by considering...The explosive development occurred as two upper-level short-wave troughs merged, resulting in a principal trough with back-shear tilt...

Surface mesohighs and mesolows

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Fujita identified pressure couplets: a mesolow associated with the tornado cyclone and a mesohigh in the adjacent heavy precipitation area to the north. On larger scales, he found that squall lines contain mesohighs associated with the convective line and wake...

Effects of Mountain Uplift on East Asian Summer Climate Investigated by a...

Journal of Climate;  February 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......circulation fields as well as sea surface temperature (SST) appeared with progressive mountain uplift. In summertime, precipitation area moves inland on the Asian continent with mountain uplift, while the Pacific subtropical anticyclone and associated trade...

Separation of convective and stratiform preciptation using microwave...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......stratiform precipitation, a probability matching method is employed to relate the C/S index to a convective fraction of precipitation area. The scheme has been applied on synthetic data generated from a dynamical cloud model and radiative transfer computations...

The Nation's Weather

AP Online;  April 10, 2000 ;     202 words ......the Dakotas and Nebraska. Snow showers, along with a rain and snow mix, were occurring over the northern fringe of the precipitation area. Areas from far northern Indiana, west across northern Illinois, southern Wisconsin, southern Minnesota, northern South...

An approach for the representation of surface heterogeneity in land...

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......results from point-mode experiments. Model sensitivity to the presence of impermeable surface fractional cover, fractional precipitation area, and a crude delayed runoff formulation is also discussed. As a next phase of model evaluation, it is planned to include...

The relationship between tropical easterly waves and surges over the Gulf...

Monthly Weather Review;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......reanalysis data during the months of July and August over a 14-yr period are examined. Results indicate that tropical easterly wave troughs often cross western Mexico 1-3 days prior to surge onset at Yuma, Arizona, indicating a strong correlation between these...

Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society: Interpreting Lake Superior's...

PR Newswire;  May 1, 2002 ;     474 words ......crewmembers, last seen off Whitefish Point on December 1, 1908, and the Cyprus, lost with all hands save one caught between deadly wave-troughs along Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast October 11, 1907. The Cyprus was only 21 days old and on her second trip across Lake...