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 ...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Orographic lifting contributes to the snowpack in a way that differs from a typical storm system. Tom Renwick, Meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said, “If ...
(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 ...
PMP is currently defined in the United States as: Theoretically, the greatest depth of precipitation for a given duration that is physically possible over a given size storm area at a particular ...
Afrifa, F. O. T., B. Geerts, L. Xue, S. Chen, C. Hohman, C. Grasmick, K. Friedrich, J. French, S. Tessendorf, T. Zaremba, and R. M. Rauber, 2025: A case study of cold ...
Linear trends of summer precipitation during 1951–2014 (units: mm·month⁻¹·decade⁻¹). (a) Observed trends based on GPCC data. (b) Trend differences between low-resolution models and GPCC. (c) Same as ...
For more than 75 years, high-hazard structures in the United States, including dams and nuclear power plants, have been engineered to withstand floods resulting from the most unlikely but possible ...