Colorado State University. Department of Atmospheric Science.

Animations of Next Generation Radar reflectivity images are used to analyze the evolution of convective and stratiform regions of 13 mesoscale convective systems.

The development of a mesoscale circulation by the thermal contrast between a fire burned area surrounded by untouched vegetation was simulated by the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) in order to show the circulation's ability to generate clouds and precipitation.

This research offers a new methodology for forecasting extended range ENSO events, utilizing global data and a statistical model.

The net influence of sub-grid or smaller unresolvable scale processes (which cannot be directly detected from conventional observations) on the tangential momentum field in tropical cyclones has been calculated as a residual from the grid-scale momentum budgets of sixteen rawinsonde composite data sets.

The CSU mesoscale atmospheric dispersion modelling system has been used in this study to simulate the transport and diffusion of a perfluorocarbon tracer gas for episodic releases made during two North American mesoscale dispersion field experiments.

A global observational study of atmospheric conditions associated with tropical disturbance and storm development is presented.