There is a lot of talk surrounding tropical systems and how rainfall is even more severe in mountainous terrain. This is because of a phenomenon called orographic lift. Orographic lift occurs when ...
The breaking of orographic gravity waves induces a zonal wave drag in the middle troposphere, which destroys the geostrophic balance of the large-scale westerly flow and thus drives an ageostrophic ...
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places in the world other than the poles. It’s about the size of Cuba, but sometimes receives just a millimeter of rain per year, making it ...
(a) Precipitation time series from GPM satellite product (GPM) and sensitivity experiments; (b)–(d) probability density distribution functions of daily total precipitation for GPM (green), CTRL ...
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - Hurricane Fiona had major impacts in the Caribbean with intense rainfall causing flooding issues in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is located along two tectonic plates, the Caribbean ...
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 61, No. 4 (April 2022), pp. 441-456 (16 pages) A vertically pointing Ka-band radar (Metek MIRA-35C) installed at the Instituto Geofisico del Perú, ...
Jackson, R., J. R. French, D. C. Leon, D. M. Plummer, S. Lasher-Trapp, A. M. Blyth, and A. Korolev, 2018: Observations of the microphysical evolution of convective ...
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