Browsing Faculty Research by Department "Atmospheric Sciences"
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(2011-10-31)The 2011 drought in Texas has been unprecedented in its intensity. The year 2010 had been relatively wet across most of the state, except for extreme eastern Texas. Beginning in October 2010, most of Texas experienced a ...
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(Royal Meteorological Society, 2021-02-12)Convective system tracking was performed using 30‐min GOES‐13 infrared imagery over the Amazon region during 2014 and 2015. A total of 116,701 convective systems were identified and statistics on the probability of occurrence ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2013-04-26)The record-setting 2011 Texas drought/heat wave is examined to identify physical processes, underlying causes, and predictability. October 2010–September 2011 was Texas’s driest 12-month period on record. While the summer ...
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(2009-08-12)This report characterizes the meteorological severity of the 2008‐09 Texas Drought as of August 1, 2009, putting the present drought into a historical perspective. The report draws upon multiple sources of information, ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2005-05-01)A case study from the Texas Air Quality Study 2000 field campaign illustrates the complex interaction of meteorological and chemical processes that produced a high-pollution event in the Houston area on 30 August 2000. ...
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(National Climatic Data Center, 2006)
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(American Meteorological Society, 1996-07-01)A lightning climatology within 50 km of nine outdoor venue locations for the 1996 Summer Olympics has been produced. Spatial and temporal patterns were analyzed for July and August from 1986 through 1993. Unusually active ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 1999-09-01)The recent article by Chen et al. (1998; henceforth Chen) concludes that three processes were important to the development of a particular low-level jet (LLJ) associated with a mei-yu front: (1) a transverse circulation ...
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(2005-01-29)Key findings and recommendations of general interest are in boldface. Page numbers are shown in [brackets]. From Chapter 1: 1. As has been done by TCEQ, it is useful to consider the daily ozone levels in a particular ...
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(2005-01-29)Key findings and recommendations of general interest are in boldface. From Chapter 2: 1. Background ozone may be defined as the lowest 8-h maximum ozone level on a given day within a region. (page 19) 2. When estimating ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2010-09-01)This research is designed to investigate how convective instability influences monthly mean precipitation in Texas in the summertime and to examine the modulation of convective instability and precipitation by local and ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2010-09-01)This study is concerned with the modulation by convective instability of summertime precipitation in Texas as a mechanism for maintaining or enhancing drought. The important role of convective inhibition (CIN), its dependence ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 1995-03-01)Left-moving supercells, which rotate anticyclonically, are much less common than their right-moving counterparts but are nevertheless capable of producing severe weather. On 26 May 1992, a severe left-moving thunderstorm ...
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(2016-10-28)The objective of this research is to determine whether poorly sited long-term surface temperature monitoring sites have been adjusted in order to provide spatially representative independent data for use in regional and ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2000-08-01)Effective stratification can be interpreted as the resistance to upward motion of saturated air parcels experiencing condensation. Previously published expressions for effective stratification conflict with each other, and ...
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(2016-10-28)The performance of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) in forced, dissipative flow under imperfect-model conditions is investigated through simultaneous state and parameter estimation where the source of model error is the ...
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(2002-02-05)This report is an evaluation of the quality of MM5 simulations of weather phenomena during the August 2000 Houston-Galveston Ozone episode. The report serves two purposes: first, to help guide final selection of a model ...
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Evaluation of Planetary Boundary Layer Scheme Sensitivities for the Purpose of Parameter Estimation (American Meteorological Society, 2010-09-01)Meteorological model errors caused by imperfect parameterizations generally cannot be overcome simply by optimizing initial and boundary conditions. However, advanced data assimilation methods are capable of extracting ...
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(American Meteorological Society, 2010-09-01)Accurate depiction of meteorological conditions, especially within the planetary boundary layer (PBL), is important for air pollution modeling, and PBL parameterization schemes play a critical role in simulating the boundary ...