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This study examines the predictability of the Florida State University/Center for Oceanic and Atmospheric Prediction Studies (FSU/COAPS) climate model, and is motivated by the model's potential use in crop modeling. The study also...
Over the past 40 years radiative transfer models have consistently under-predicted the amount of solar absorption by clouds. Estimates of the size of this discrepancy at the beginning of its discovery were ~10 W/m^2, but in 1995 jumped...
With current computational limitations, the accuracy of high resolution precipitation forecasts has limited temporal and spatial resolutions. Forecast accuracy drops dramatically after a 24 hour forecast. Current operational mesoscale...
The largest warming over the last several decades has been observed in high latitudes. Cai (2005) proposed that part of the large amplitude climate warming in high latitudes could be explained by the "dynamical amplifier" feedback. This...
The landfalls of extreme hurricane events in recent years reveal the need for more accurate predictions of winds during landfalling tropical cyclone events to help reduce property damage. The goal of this study is to develop a high...
Anthropogenic aerosols are known to alter clouds and their optical properties by serving as cloud condensation nuclei. An increase in aerosol concentration causing smaller but more cloud droplets for a fixed liquid water content, thereby...
Tornado reports are combined with hurricane data to generate a dataset of tornadoes associated with tropical cyclones affecting the coastal Gulf of Mexico and Florida's East Coast between 2000 – 2008. A pool of 28 potential predictors of...
Daily maximum and minimum temperature data from 758 COOP stations in nineteen states are used to create temperature decile maps. All stations used contain records from 1948 through 2004 and could not be missing more than 5 consecutive...
Often the parameterization of the moisture roughness length is not seen as being important, as long as the parameterization seems reasonable; that is, it is within the rather considerable bounds of error for the data sets used to...
The Kennedy Space Center in east Central Florida is one of the few locations in the country that issues lightning advisories. These forecasts are vital to the daily operations of the Space Center and take on even greater significance...
This study explores potential vorticity budgets from the complete Ertel's potential vorticity equation during hurricane genesis. The data sets for these experiments are derived from a high-resolution hurricane forecast that provided...
The need for a high-resolution precipitation database over Florida is evident by the ever-increasing impact of water resources on society. The Multisensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE) software was developed by the National Weather...
A four-dimensional model was designed to assimilate ozone for a one-year period from January to December 1999. The model has 1 ° x 1 ° horizontal resolution and is 18 sigma levels in the vertical from 10 hPa to the Earth's surface. This...
This study evaluates the impacts of two types of rainfall input on simulated streamflow using a specialized, fully-distributed hydrologic model—the Watershed Assessment Model (WAM). We compare gauge-only Thiessen polygon input data with...
We will describe the development of a high-resolution, gridded forecast guidance product for warm season cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning in Florida. Four warm seasons of analysis data from the 20-km Rapid Update Cycle (RUC) and lightning...
This research identifies dominant modes of annual variability of the marine stratocumulus (MSc) cloud in the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic obtained from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) dataset from...
Tornadoes in the southeastern United States frequently occur with quasi-linear convective systems (QLCSs, also referred to as squall lines). Studies have shown that the non-descending mode of tornadogenesis (i.e., when strong rotation...
Improved knowledge of thunderstorm behavior near the end of its lifecycle is essential to improving the prediction of lightning cessation. This study documents the characteristics of decaying storms near the end of their lightning...
This study examines differences between rain gauge precipitation estimates and those from the National Weather Service's (NWS's) Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimator (MPE) which blends hourly gauge data with estimates from NWS radars...
The Development of a High-Resolution Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Model and Applications Toward Understanding the Limiting Factors for Tropical Cyclone Intensity Prediction
The prediction of tropical cyclone (TC) motion has improved greatly in recent decades. However, similar trends remain absent with respect to TC intensity prediction. Several hypotheses have been proposed attempting to explain why...
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