National Mosaic and Multi-Sensor QPE (NMQ) system: Description, results, and future plans

J Zhang, K Howard, C Langston… - Bulletin of the …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
The National Mosaic and Multi-sensor QPE (Quantitative Precipitation Estimation), or “NMQ”,
system was initially developed from a joint initiative between the National Oceanic and …

[HTML][HTML] Convective-scale warn-on-forecast system: A vision for 2020

DJ Stensrud, M Xue, LJ Wicker… - Bulletin of the …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Weather Service
(NWS) issues warnings for severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, and flash floods because …

[HTML][HTML] Microphysical characteristics of overshooting convection from polarimetric radar observations

CR Homeyer, MR Kumjian - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
The authors present observations of the microphysical characteristics of deep convection
that overshoots the altitude of the extratropical tropopause from analysis of the polarimetric …

Climate and weather impact timing of emergence of bats

WF Frick, PM Stepanian, JF Kelly, KW Howard… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Interest in forecasting impacts of climate change have heightened attention in recent
decades to how animals respond to variation in climate and weather patterns. One difficulty …

Ten year analysis of tropopause‐overshooting convection using GridRad data

JW Cooney, KP Bowman, CR Homeyer… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Convection that penetrates the tropopause (overshooting convection) rapidly transports air
from the lower troposphere to the lower stratosphere, potentially mixing air between the two …

Top‐of‐atmosphere radiation budget of convective core/stratiform rain and anvil clouds from deep convective systems

Z Feng, X Dong, B **, C Schumacher… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A new hybrid classification algorithm to objectively identify Deep Convective Systems
(DCSs) in radar and satellite observations has been developed. This algorithm can classify …

Improving CINRAD Radar QPE Through GPM‐DPR Reflectivity Bias Correction

Z Zhu, Y Qi, D Li - Water Resources Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reflectivity bias of ground‐based weather radar (GR) is a common error source that can
lead to biases in quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE). In this study, the Dual …

Radar‐based climatology of damaging hailstorms in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia

RA Warren, HA Ramsay, ST Siems… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Severe hailstorms represent some of Australia's most costly natural disasters. In particular,
the densely populated east‐coast cities of Brisbane and Sydney have both been impacted …

Quantifying animal phenology in the aerosphere at a continental scale using NEXRAD weather radars

JF Kelly, JR Shipley, PB Chilson, KW Howard… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
One of the primary ecological manifestations of climate change is a shift in the timing of
events in a species' annual cycle. Such phenological shifts have been documented in …

[HTML][HTML] Formation of the enhanced-V infrared cloud-top feature from high-resolution three-dimensional radar observations

CR Homeyer - Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
Formation of the Enhanced-V Infrared Cloud-Top Feature from High-Resolution Three-Dimensional
Radar Observations in: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences Volume 71 Issue 1 (2014) Jump …