21st Conf. on Severe Local Storms and 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction

Session 6: Winter Weather and Climatological Studies

Wednesday, 14 August 2002: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Organizer:  John R. Gyakum, McGill University
Papers:
  8:00 AM
6.1
Establishing a 10 year climatology of 101.6 mm (4 inch) rainfall days, part I
Norman W. Junker, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. H. Grumm, R. Hart, and L. F. Bosart

  8:15 AM
6.2
Can possible heavy rainfall events be identified by comparing various parameters to the climatological norms?
Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and N. W. Junker, R. Hart, and L. F. Bosart

Poster PDF (111.3 kB)
  8:30 AM
6.3
A Northeast Snowstorm Impact Scale
Paul J. Kocin, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and L. W. Uccellini

  8:45 AM
6.4
A study of heavy precipitation occurring in continental and marine environments
John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and R. McTaggart-Cowan, P. A. Sisson, G. Toth, P. Lewis, and J. K. Parker

  9:00 AM
6.5
A climatological and composite study of cold season banded precipitation in the northeast United States
David Novak, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and J. S. Waldstreicher

Poster PDF (479.7 kB)
  9:15 AM
6.6
Large-scale circulation anomaly indices in relation to cool-season precipitation events in the northeastern United States
David Groenert, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and R. H. Grumm

Poster PDF (467.3 kB)
  9:30 AM
6.7
Northern Hemisphere warming: A thickness climatology
Anantha R. Aiyyer, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and E. H. Atallah and L. F. Bosart

Poster PDF (802.1 kB)
  9:45 AM
6.8
The effects of diabatic redistribution of potential vorticity on cold frontal rainbands and cold front propagation
Heather Dawn Reeves, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Lackmann

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)