Date:2/1/1998
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(42) Mesoscale Convective Systems
Author:Doesken, N.J., T.B. McKee
Title:An analysis of rainfall for the July 28, 1997 Flood in Ft. Collins, Colorado
Publication:Colorado Climate Center, Dept. of Atmos. Sci., Colorado State University, Climatology Report 98-1.
Abstract:Colorado is know for abundent sunshine, low humidity and a relatively mild climate.
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Date:6/1/1998
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Davidson, N.E., K. Kurihara, T. Kato, G. Mills, K. Puri
Title:Dynamics and prediction of a mesoscale extreme rain event in the Baiu front over Kyushu, Japan
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 1608-1629
Abstract:A high-resolution version of the limited-area primitive equations model of the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre is used to investigate the dynamics and prediction of the mesoscale, extreme rain event of 1 August 1993 over Kyushu.
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Date:09/01/1998
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Buzzi, A., N. Tartaglione, P. Malguzzi
Title:Numerical simulations of the 1994 Piedmont flood: Role of orography and moist processes.
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2369-2383
Abstract:The intense precipitation event that occurred between 3 and 6 Nov. 1994 and caused extensive flooding over Piedmont in northwestern Italy is simulated and tested with respect to various physica aspects, using a meteorological model (BOLEM).
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Date:11/01/1998
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Spencer, P.L., D.J. Stensrud
Title:Simulating flash flood events: Importance of the subgrid representation of convection
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 2884-2912
Abstract:The Pennsylvania State University-NCAR Mesoscale Model is used to simulate six flash flood events that occurred int he central and eastern United States.
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Date:12/01/1997
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(57) Probable Max. Precipitation And Flood Estimation [PMP/PMF]
Author:Abbs, D.J., B.F. Ryan
Title:Numerical modelling of extreme precipitation events
Publication:Research Report No. 131, Urban Water Research Association of Australia, CSIRO, Aspendale
Abstract:None
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Date:03/01/1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Changnon, S.A., K.E. Kunkel
Title:Record flood-producing rainstorms of 17-18 July 1996 in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Part I: Synoptic and Mesoscale Features
Publication:J. App. Meteor., 38, pp. 257-265
Abstract:A unique rainstorm in northern Illinois produced 43 cm of precipitation in midJuly 1996, the highest 24-h precipitaion amount ever recorded officialy in the upper Midwest.
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Date:03/01/1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Angel, J.R., F.A. Huff
Title:Record flood-producing rainstorms of 17-18 July 1996 in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Part II: HydrometeorologicalCharacteristics of the Rainstorms
Publication:J. App. Meteor., 38, pp. 266-272
Abstract:The rainstorm on 17-18 July 1996 in northern Illinois produced three rainfall records.
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Date:03/01/1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Changnon, S.A.
Title:Record flood-producing rainstorms of 17-18 July 1996 in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Part III: Impacts and responses to the Flash Flooding
Publication:J. App. Meteor., 38, pp. 273-280
Abstract:A record-breaking 24-h rainstorm on 17-18 July 1996 was centered on south Chicago and its southern and western suburbs, areas with a population of 3.4 million.
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Date:03/01/1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(57) Probable Max. Precipitation And Flood Estimation [PMP/PMF]
Author:Abbs, D.
Title:A numerical modeling study to investigate the assumptions used in the calculation of probable maximum precipitation
Publication:Water Resources Res., 35, 785-796
Abstract:A numerical model of the atmosphere has been employed to evaluate the assumptions used in the simple two-parameter model that is utilized for many probable maximum precipitation (PMP)calculations.
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Date:05/01/1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Bosilovich, M.G., W.Y. Sun
Title:Numerical simulation of the 1993 midwestern flood: Land-atmosphere interactions
Publication:J. Clim., 12, 1490-1505
Abstract:During the summer of 1993, persistent and heavy precipitation caused a long-lived, catastrophic flood in the midwestern United States.
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Date:05/01/1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Cavazos, T.
Title:Large-scale circulation anomalies conducive to extreme precipitation events and derivation of daily rainfall in northeastern Mexico and southeastern Texas
Publication:J. Clim., 12, 1506-1523
Abstract:The severe impacts of climate variability and climate hazards on society reveal the increasing need for improving regional- and local-scale climate diagnosis.
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Date:08/01/1996
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(57) Probable Max. Precipitation And Flood Estimation [PMP/PMF]
Author:Minty, L.J., J. Meighen, M.R. Kennedy
Title:Development of the generalised southeast Australia method for estimating probable maximum precipitation
Publication:Hydrology Report Series No. 4, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia, 42 pp
Abstract:Probable maximum precipitation (PMP) is defined as 'the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration meteorologically possible over a given size storm area at a particular location at a particular time of the year, with no allowance made for long-term climatic trends' (WMO, 1986).
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Date:03-03-2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Colle, B.A., C.F. Mass
Title:The 5-9 February 1996 flooding event over the Pacific Notrhwest: Sensitivity studeis and evalualtion of the MM5 preipitation forecasts
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 128,593-617
Abstract:This paper describes the flooding event of 5-9 February 1996 in which a series of landfalling Pacific storms brought 30-70cm of rain to many mountains sites over southwest Washington and northwest Oregon. This event was simulated at 36-, 12-, 4-, and 1.33-km horzontal resolution using the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research mesoscale model (MM5).
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Date:04/01/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Brooks, H.E., D.J. Stensrud
Title:Climatology of heavy rain events in the United States from hourly precipitation observations
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 1194-1201
Abstract:Flash flooding is frequently associated with heavy precipitation (defined here as >= 1 in. h^-1) occuring over a short period of time.
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Date:06/01/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Thomas T. Warner, E. A. Brandes, J. Sun, D. N. Yates, C. K. Mueller
Title:Prediction of a Flash Flood in Complex Terrain. PartI: A Comparison of Rainfall Estimates from Radar, and Very Short Range Rainfall Simulations from Dynamic Model and an Automated Algorithmic System
Publication:J. Appl. Met., 39, 797-814
Abstract:Operatioinal prediction of a flash floods caused by convective rainfall in mountainous areas requires accurate estimates or predictions of the rainfall distribution in space and time.
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Date:02/01/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Ferretti, R., S. Low-Nam, R. Rotunno
Title:Numerical simulations of the Piedmont flood of 4-6 November 1994
Publication:Tellus, 52A, 162-180
Abstract:A case study of the 1994 Piedmont flood is carried out by performing several numerical experiments using the MM5 model.
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Date:05/01/1998
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Massacand, A.C., H. Wernli, H.C. Davies
Title:Heavy precipitaiton on the Alpine southside: An upper-level precursor
Publication:Geophys. Res. Ltrs., 25, 1435-1438
Abstract:Analysis of four separate autumnal events of very heavy precipitaiton on the southern slopes of the European Alps indicate that each was accompanied by a strikingly similar anomaly at upper-tropospheric levels.
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Date:01/01/1994
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:National Research Council
Title:Estimating bounds on extreme precipitation events
Publication:Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washiongton, DC 20418, 29 pp.
Abstract:One of the most important societal applications of meteorological knowledge is the prediction of unusual weather events that lead to extremes of temperature, wind, or precipitation.
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Date:8/1/1997
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Nair, U.S., M.R. Hjelmfelt, R.A. Pielke, Sr.
Title:Numerical simulation of the 9-10 June 1972 black hills storm using CSU RAMS
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 1753-1766
Abstract:Strong easterly flow of low-level moist air over the eastern slopes of the Black Hills on 9-10 June 1972 generated a storm system that produced a flash flood, devastating the area.
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Date:10/15/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Jones, C.
Title:Occurrence of extreme precipitation events on california and relationships with the madden-julian oscillation
Publication:J. Clim., 13, 3576-3587
Abstract:California receives most of the annual precipation during the boreal winter season.
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Date:10/15/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Pielke, R.A., M. W. Downton
Title:Precipitation and damaging floods: Trends in the United States, 1932-97
Publication:J. Climate, 13, 3625-3637
Abstract:The poor relationship between what climatologists, hydrologists, and other physical scienists call floods, and those floods that actually cause damage to life or property, has limited what can be reliably said about the causes of observed trends in damaging floods.
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Date:11/01/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Drooegemeier, K.K., J.D. Smith, S. Businger, C. Doswell III, J. Doyle, C. Duffy, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, T. Graziano, L.D. James, V. Krajewski, M. LeMone, D. Letternmaier, C. Mass, R. Pielke, P. Ray, S. Rutledge, J. Schaake, E. Zipser
Title:Meeting Summary
Publication:Bulletin,81, 2665-2680
Abstract:Among the many natural disasters that disrupt human and industrial activity in the United States each year, includng tornadoes, hurricanes, extreme temperatures, and lighting floods are among the most devastating and rank second in the loss of life.
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Date:06/30/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Jarrett, R.D.
Title:Paleoflood Investigations for cherry creek basin, Eastern Colorado
Publication:2000 Joint Confer. on water res. engineering and water res. planning and mangt., Minneapolis, MN
Abstract:In 1950 when Cherry Creek dam, whichis located in Denver, Colorado, was completed, the design flood was 5,126m3/s.
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Date:01/14/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Jarrett, R.D.
Title:Paleohydrologic estimates of convective rainfall in the Rocky Mountains
Publication:Symposium on precipitation extremes: prediction, impacts, and responses; Albuquerque,NM
Abstract:Increased emphasis on extreme rainstorm and flood doucumentation will maximize benefits fri\om emerging technologies, will help improve hydrologic modeling, and improve flash flood forecasting.
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Date:10/01/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Jarrett, R.D., E.M. Tomlinson
Title:Regional interdisciplinary paleoflood approach to assss extreme flood potential
Publication:Water Resou. Res., 36, 2957-2984
Abstract:In the past decade, there has been a growing interest of dam safety officials to incorporate a risk-based analysis for design-flood hydrology.
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Date:02/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Groisman, P.Y., R.W. Knight, T.R. Karl
Title:Heavy Precipitation and high streamflow in the contiguous United States: Trends in the twentieth century
Publication:Bulletin, 82, 219-246
Abstract:Changes in severall components of the hydrological cycle over the contiguous United States have been documented during the twentieth century: an increase of precipitation especially heavy and very heavy precipitation, an a significant retreat in spring snow cover extent over western regions during the last few decades.
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Date:07/01/1980
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Maddox, R.A., L.R. Hoxit, F. Canova
Title:Meteorological characteristics of heavy precipitation and flash flood events over the western United States
Publication:NOAA Tech. Memorandum ERL APCL-23
Abstract:Metorological charareristics of flash floods and heavy preipitation events over the western United States are often considerably different than those associated with flash floods in the east.
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Date:07/01/1980
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Maddox, R.A., L.R. Hoxit, F. Canova
Title:Meteorological characteristics of heavy precipitation and flash flood events over the western United States
Publication:NOAA Tech. Memorandum ERL APCL-23
Abstract:Metorological charareristics of flash floods and heavy preipitation events over the western United States are often considerably different than those associated with flash floods in the east.
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Date:11/10/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(12) Climate
Author:Gong, D.-Y., S.-W. Wang
Title:Severe summer rainfall in China associated with enhanced global warming
Publication:Clim. Res., 16, 51-59
Abstract:Trends of extreme wet and dry conditions during recent decades were examined using observed data for eastern China.
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Date:11/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Chen, F., T.T. Warner, K. Manning
Title:Sensitivity of orographic moist convection to landscape variability: A study of the Buffalo Creek, Colorado flash-flood case of 1996
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3204-3223.
Abstract:A number of numerical experiments with a high-resolution mesoscale model were conducted to study the convective rainfall event that caused the 1996
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Date:05/01/1997
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:McKee, T.B., N.J. Doesken
Title:Colorado Extreme precipitation storm precipitation data study
Publication:Climatology Report 97-1, Final Report, to Colorado Dept. of Natural Resources, Contract #C154204, Denver, CO.
Abstract:The Colorado Extreme Storm Precipitaiton Data Study was undertaken in Colorado in response to ongoing scientific uncertainty regarding the magnitude (intensity, duration and area) of precipitaiton that can...
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Date:07/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Rotunno, R., R. Ferretti
Title:Mechanisms of Intensr Alpine Rainfall
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 1732-1749
Abstract:Numericall studies by the autors and tothers of the 1994 piedmont flood that the orographically modified flow was a critical element for the production of extraordinary rainfall.
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Date:06/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Konrad II, C.E.
Title:The most extreme precipitation events over the eastern United States from 1950 to 1996: considerations of scale
Publication:J. Hydro., 2, 309-325
Abstract:The intensity or magnitude of a given heavy precipation event is typically associated with the greatest point precipitation total.
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Date:09/01/2000
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Gaffin, D.M., D.G. Hotz
Title:A precipitation and flood climatology with synoptic features of heavy rainfall across the southern appalachian mountains
Publication:National Wea. Digest
Abstract:A climatological study was conducted to identify the spatial distribution of 'normal' precipitation, to compile and interpret the reported flood statistics, and sounding parameters associated with heavy rainfall across the southern Appalachian Mountains.
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Date:10/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Smith, J.A., M.L. Baeck, Y. Zhang, C.A. Doswell III
Title:Extreme rainfal and flooding from supercell thunderstorms
Publication:J. Hydro., 2, 469-489
Abstract:Supercell thunderstorms, the storm systems responsible for most tornadoes, have often been dismissed as flood hazards.
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Date:11/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Chen,F., T.T. Warner, K. Manning
Title:Sensitivity of Orographic Moist Convection to Landscape Variability: A Study of the Buffalo Creek, Colorado,Flash Flood Case of 1996
Publication:J. Atmos. Sci.,59, 3204-3223
Abstract:A number of numerical experiments with a high-resolution mesoscale model were conducted to study the convective rainfall event that caused the 1996 Buffalo Creek, Colorado, flash flood.
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Date:12/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Xue,Y.,F.J. Zeng, K.E. Mitchell, E. Rogers
Title:The Impact of Land Surface Processes on Simulations of the U.S. Hydrological Cycle: A Case Study of the 1993 Flood Using the SSiB Land Surface Model in the NCEP Eta Regional Model
Publication:Monthly Weather Review, 129, 2833-2860
Abstract:This paper describes a methodology for coupling the Simplified Simple Bioshpere Model (SSiB) to the regional Eta Model of the National Centers for Enviornmental Prediction (NCEP) and presents the application of the coupled system in regional simulation studies.
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Date:09/1961
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Hershfield, D.M.
Title:Estimating the Probable Maximum Precipitation
Publication:J. Hyd. Div., 5, 99-116
Abstract:A method for the systematic analysis of precipitation data for the purpose of estimating the probable maximum precipitation is proposed.
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Date:7/1/02
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Carbone, R.E., Tuttle, J.D., Ahijevych, D.A., Trier, S.B.
Title:Inferences of Predictability Associated with Warm Season Precipitation Episodes
Publication:J. of Atmos. Sci.
Abstract:Herein preliminary findings are from a radar-based climatology of warm season precipitation
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Date:04/01/2002
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Changnon, S.A.
Title:Frequency of Heavy Rainstroms on Areas from 10 to 10,000 Km^2, Defined Using Dense Rain Gauge Networks
Publication:Journal of Hydrometeorology, 3, 220-223.
Abstract:Operation in Illinois of eight dense rain gauge networks of varying sizes, with each operating for 5-22 yr,
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Date:09/10/01
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Westrick, K. J., Storck, P., Mass, C.F.
Title:Description and Evaluation of a Hydrometeorological Forcast System for Mountainous Watershed
Publication:Weather and forcasting, Vol. 17
Abstract:This paper describes and evaluates an automated riverflow forecasting system for the prediction of peak flows during the cool season
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Date:2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(45) Microphysics - Ice Phase
Author:Ashby, C.T., W.R. Cotton, R. McAnelly
Title:Impact of soil moisture initialization on a simulated flash flood
Publication:Proc. 15th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, 14-19 January 2001, Albuquerque, NM. AMS
Abstract:none.
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Date:2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Cotton, W.R., R.L. McAnelly, C.T. Ashby
Title:Estimating extreme precipitation at high elevations in Colorado through mesoscale ensemble modeling
Publication:Proc. 15th Conference on Precipitation Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Responses, 14-19 January 2001, Albuquerque, NM. AMS
Abstract:none.
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Date:2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(45) Microphysics - Ice Phase
Author:Ashby, C.T., W.R. Cotton
Title:Impact of soil moisture initialization on a simulated flash flood
Publication:Proc. 15th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weathrt Modification, 14-19 January 2001, Albuquerque, NM. AMS
Abstract:none.
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Date:1999
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Ashby, Cotton
Title:Numerical simulation of the 28 July 1997, Fort Collins Flash Flood
Publication:8th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, 28 June-1 July, Boulder, CO.
Abstract:none.
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Date:1981
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(18) Cumulonimbus
Author:Knupp, Motallebi, Cotton
Title:Observations of heavily precipitated mountainous thunderstorms
Publication:4th Conference on Hydrometeorlogy, 7-9 Oct. Reno, NV.
Abstract:none
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Date:12/01/2001
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Lin, Y.-L., S. Chiao, T.-A. Wang, M.L. Kaplan, R.P. Weglarz
Title:Some common ingredients for heavy orographic rainfall
Publication:Wea. Forecasting, 16, 633-660
Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to synthesize some common synoptic and mesoscale environments conducive to heavy orographic rainfall.
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Date:01/01/2003
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(51) Numerical Weather Prediction
Author:Corazza, M., A. Buzzi, D. Sachetti, E. Trovatore, C.F. Ratto
Title:Simulating extreme precipitation with a mesoscale forecast model
Publication:Meteorol. Atmos. Phys., 83, 131-143
Abstract:A statistical analysis of two versions of BOLAM, a numerical model for mesoscale weather forecasting, is performed.
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Date:09/01/2003
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Li, J., R.A. Maddox, X. Gao, S. Sorooshian, and K. Hsu
Title:A numerical investigation of storm structure and evolution during the July 1999 Las Vegas flash flood
Publication:Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2038-2059
Abstract:Severe flash flood storms that occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada, on 8 July 1999, were unusual for the semiarid southwest United States because of their extreme intensity and the morning occurrence of heavy convective rainfall.
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Date:10/01/2003
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Moore, J.T., F.H. Glass, C.E. Graves, S.M. Rochette, M.J. Singer
Title:The environment of warm-season elevated thunderstorms associated with heavy rainfall over the central U.S.
Publication:Wea. Forecasting, 18, 861-878
Abstract:Twenty-one warm-season heavy-rainfall events in the central United States produced by mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) that developed above and north of a surface boundary are examined to define the environmental conditions and physical processes associated with these phenomena.
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Date:01/01/2005
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
Author:Tuomi, T., M. Larjavaara
Title:Identification and analysis of flash cells in thunderstorms
Publication:Q.J.R. Meteorol., Soc., 131, 1191-1214
Abstract:The convection-cell structure of a thunderstorm, often visible in the precipitation pattern of weather radar images, can also be identified in the clustering of ground flashes when their rate is high enough.
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Date:01/01/2007
Subject:(78) Flash Floods & Extreme Precipitation
(51) Numerical Weather Prediction
(31) Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation [4DDA]
Author:Kawabata, T., H. Seko, K. Saito, T. Kuroda, K. Tamiya, T. Tsuyuki, Y. Honda, Y. Wakazuki
Title:An assimilation and forecasting experiment of the Nerima heavy rainfall with a cloud-resolving nonhydrostatic 4-dimensional variational data assimilation system
Publication:J. Met. Soc. Japan, 85, 3, 255-276.
Abstract:The meteorological research Intitute of the Japan Meteorological Agency has developed a cloud-resolving nonhdrostatic 4-dimensional variational assimilation system (NHM-4DVAR), based on the Japan Meteorlogical Agenacy...
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