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A Synoptic Climatology Of Combined Severe/Weather/Flash Flood Events, Kyle James Pallozzi
A Synoptic Climatology Of Combined Severe/Weather/Flash Flood Events, Kyle James Pallozzi
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Classical forms of severe weather such as tornadoes, damaging convective wind gusts, and large hail, as well as flash flooding events, all have potentially large societal impacts. This impact is further magnified when these hazards occur simultaneously in time and space. A major challenge for operational forecasters is how to accurately predict the occurrence of combined storm hazards, and how to communicate the associated multiple threat hazards to the public. A seven-year climatology (2009-2015) of combined severe weather/flash flooding (SVR/FF) events across the contiguous United States was developed in attempt to study the combined SVR/FF event hazards further.
Agricultural Drought Transition Periods In The United States Corn Belt Region, Nicholas Joseph Schiraldi
Agricultural Drought Transition Periods In The United States Corn Belt Region, Nicholas Joseph Schiraldi
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Agricultural drought in the U.S. Corn Belt region (CBR) has tremendous global socioeconomic implications. Unfortunately, the weather and climate factors that contribute to transition events toward or away from such droughts, and how well those factors are predicted, are poorly understood. This dissertation focuses on the atmospheric circulation signals associated with agricultural drought transitions periods in the CBR that evolve over 20 and 60 days, and how well those circulation signals are predicted on seasonal to sub-seasonal time scales.