This course investigates the main processes that control weather and climate in the western United States and other mountain ranges around the world. You are provided with an advanced survey of ...

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 ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 61, No. 4 (April 2022), pp. 441-456 (16 pages) A vertically pointing Ka-band radar (Metek MIRA-35C) installed at the Instituto Geofisico del Perú, ...

This page contains theses and dissertations using datasets from UWKA facility deployments from 2005 to the present, and include the King Air, the Wyoming Cloud Radar, and/or Wyoming Cloud Lidar.

Much of what we know about detailed cloud properties such as cloud hydrometeor size, shape, phase, and concentration, are derived from in situ measurements made on board instrumented aircraft. However ...

California receives much of its precipitation from cool-season atmospheric rivers, which contribute to water resources and flooding. In winter 2017, a large number of atmospheric rivers caused ...