A two-parameter design storm for Mediterranean convective rainfall

Comparison of Temporal Rainfall Distributions for Near Probable Maximum Precipitation Storm Events for Dam Design

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has assisted local sponsors with analysis, design and construction of approximately 26,000 of the 80,000 dams in the National Inventory of Dams. Many of these dams are reaching their design life and require rehabilitation. Rehabilitation efforts come at a time when NRCS is in the process of evaluating a potential change from a minimum 6-hour sto...

Microphysics Schemes Based on Dsd-parameter Constraints and Their Impact on Convective Storm Forecasts

It is clear that in order to accurately model convective scale events, we require the most accurate microphysical schemes possible. However this need for detailed microphysical parameterization must be balanced with the computational expense that such detailed parameterizations require. A new way of calculating the drop-size distribution (DSD) parameters in the single moment (hereafter SM) and ...

Modeling convective rainfall sensitivity to climate change

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Borneo vortex and meso-scale convective rainfall

On the statistical relationship between cloud optical and microphysical characteristics and rainfall intensity for convective storms over the Mediterranean

The relationship between the multi-spectral cloud field characterization from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and the rainfall intensities from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-module B (AMSU-B) data were studied for a convective storm event, which occurred during the first 15 days of June 2007 over the Mediterranean. The cloud products exploited in this analysis, cloud...