Hurricane Helene is now in the records of one of the most deadly storms to hit the United States in the last 50 years and the majority of the death toll so far comes from flooding and the resulting ...

ABSTRACT The meteorological observations on Macquarie Island have become of increasing value for efforts to understand the unique nature of atmospheric processes over the Southern Ocean. While the ...

Parts of the Buffalo area saw more than 6 feet of snow over three days in November 2022. AP Photo/Joshua Bessex It’s hard for most people to imagine 6 feet of snow in one storm, like the Buffalo area ...

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 ...

ABSTRACT A diagnostic precipitation model that combines linear theory of hydrostatic flow with parameterized microphysics is applied to several stratiform heavy precipitation events over the low ...

Orographic thunderstorms are common in the U.S, occurring in areas where moisture-laden winds are forced upward as they encounter mountain ranges. While the vast majority of these storms are not ...

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 ...

The extension of the Asian subtropical continent into the tropics, including the Indochina Peninsula (ICP), is generally considered an important agent for inducing and maintaining the Asian summer ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Valley networks branching across the Martian surface leave little doubt that water once flowed on the Red Planet. But where that ancient water came from — whether ...