Browsing Faculty Publications by Department "Atmospheric Sciences"
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(Texas Water Development Board, 2017-12-21)Information was collected on existing mesonets, potential evapotranspiration networks, and stakeholder needs, in support of a comprehensive feasibility study for a Texas statewide evapotranspiration network. This report ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 1989)Coastal fronts are a frequent late fall and early winter feature of eastern New England weather. Data from a mesoscale observing network is used to describe the process of coastal frontogenesis and to determine the causes ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2021-03)Afternoon deep convection over the Maritime Continent islands propagates offshore in the evening to early morning hours, leading to a nocturnal rainfall maximum over the nearby ocean. This work investigates the formation ...
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(2016-10-28)The future of ecosystems in the Big Bend region of the Chihuahuan Desert largely depends on the response to future droughts. Most of the precipitation in the region falls in the 6-month period from May to October due in ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 1992-03-01)An unusual set of observations of amplifying Kelvin-Helmholtz waves along a New England coastal front inversion is presented and compared to linear theory. The waves were observed by instrumented aircraft traversing the ...
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(2001-12-09)This report describes MM5 modeling work to date at Texas A&M University, sponsored by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, with the goal of an accurate, fully validated meteorological simulation delivered ...
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(American Meteorologial Society, 1998-11-01)The evolution of the southerly low-level jet (LLJ) during a return flow event is studied using output from the Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (Version 4). Three geographically different southerly LLJs develop in the ...
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(National Weather Service, 1995-04)
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(American Meteorological Society, 2006-04-01)A mesoscale model is used to investigate the mesoscale predictability of an extreme precipitation event over central Texas on 29 June 2002 that lasted through 7 July 2002. Both the intrinsic and practical aspects of ...
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(2002-02-28)This report describes evaluations of the performance of various configurations of the MM5 modeling system, as compared to planetary boundary layer (PBL) structure and profiler winds. Soundings from the three sounding ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2006-07-01)This study explores the extent to which potential vorticity (PV) generation and superposition were relevant on a variety of scales during the genesis of Tropical Storm Allison. Allison formed close to shore, and the ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2008-01-01)An airborne microwave temperature profiler (MTP) was deployed during the Texas 2000 Air Quality Study (TexAQS-2000) to make measurements of boundary layer thermal structure. An objective technique was developed and tested ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2011-11-29)A new homogeneous climate division monthly precipitation dataset [based on full network estimated precipitation (FNEP)] was created as an alternative to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) climate division dataset. ...
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(2020-08-07)This report describes the results of an extreme value analysis of precipitation in and around Harris County, Texas, in order to determine whether the newly-promulgated NOAA Atlas 14 rainfall design values are valid in a ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 1996-11-01)The intensification and evolution of midlatitude upper-tropospheric mobile troughs may be viewed in terms of the isentropic advection and deformation of the tropopause potential vorticity gradient. The potential vorticity ...
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(2016-10-28)Quantitative diagnosis of low-Rossby-number flows using potential vorticity (PV) includes using elements of PV advection to deduce instantaneous tendencies of the balanced atmospheric state, most commonly the geopotential ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2008-05-01)Observational and modeling studies have shown that shear and instability are powerful predictors of the likelihood of severe weather and tornadoes. To the extent that upper-tropospheric forecast errors can be described as ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2008-05-01)Idealized numerical experiments are conducted to understand the effect of upper-tropospheric potential vorticity (PV) anomalies on an environment conducive to severe weather. Anomalies are specified as a single isolated ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2008-05-01)Nonlinear balance potential vorticity (PV) inversion is used to diagnose the sensitivity of the severe convective parameter space to the amplitude of a subsynoptic-scale PV anomaly on 13 March 1990, a day on which a ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2008-05-01)A potential vorticity (PV) diagnostic framework is used to explore the sensitivity of the 3 May 1999 Oklahoma City tornado outbreak to the strength of a particular PV anomaly proximate to the geographical region experiencing ...