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Caribbean Radar Cases
This module presents radar case studies taken from events in the Caribbean that highlight radar signatures of severe weather. These cases include examples of deep convection, squall lines, bow echoes, tornadoes, and heavy rain resulting in flooding. Each case study includes a discussion of the conceptual models of each type of event as a review before showing the radar signatures and allowing the learner to analyze each one.
Available online: https://www.meted.ucar.edu/training_module.php?id=968
Published by: The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research ; 2013
This module presents radar case studies taken from events in the Caribbean that highlight radar signatures of severe weather. These cases include examples of deep convection, squall lines, bow echoes, tornadoes, and heavy rain resulting in flooding. Each case study includes a discussion of the conceptual models of each type of event as a review before showing the radar signatures and allowing the learner to analyze each one.
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Format: Digital (Standard Copyright)Tags: Flood ; Weather forecasting ; Radar meteorology ; Lesson/ Tutorial ; Heavy rain ; Tornado ; Remote sensing ; Radar Skills and Knowledge for Operational Meteorologists
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Too little too late: Welfare impacts of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia
The authors use regression analysis to assess the potential welfare impact of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia. In particular, they consider two shocks: (i) a delay in the onset of monsoon and (ii) a significant shortfall in the amount of rain in the 90 day post-onset period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, the analysis finds that a delay in the monsoon onset does not have a significant impact on the welfare of rice farmers. However, rice farm households located in areas exposed to low rainfall following the monsoon are negatively affected. Rice farm households appear to ...
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Available online: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/667641468049853932/Too-little-too-late [...]
Published by: World Bank ; 2011
The authors use regression analysis to assess the potential welfare impact of rainfall shocks in rural Indonesia. In particular, they consider two shocks: (i) a delay in the onset of monsoon and (ii) a significant shortfall in the amount of rain in the 90 day post-onset period. Focusing on households with family farm businesses, the analysis finds that a delay in the monsoon onset does not have a significant impact on the welfare of rice farmers. However, rice farm households located in areas exposed to low rainfall following the monsoon are negatively affected. Rice farm households appear to be able to protect their food expenditure in the face of weather shocks at the expense of lower nonfood expenditures per capita. The authors use propensity score matching to identify community programs that might moderate the welfare impact of this type of shock. Access to credit and public works projects in communities were among the programs with the strongest moderating effects.
This is an important consideration for the design and implementation of adaptation strategies.Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Poverty and Poverty reduction ; Heavy rain ; Monsoon ; Social protection and welfare ; Agricultural environment ; Region V - South-West Pacific ; Indonesia
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Volume 3 Number 3 - 16 May 2010
is an issue of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. Science Press, 2010Contains:
- Analysis of a Beijing Heavy Snowfall Related to an Inverted Trough in November 2009
LI Jin,ZHAO Si-Xiong,YU Fei
- Comparative Studies of Different Mesoscale Convection Parameterization Schemes in the Simulation of Mei-Yu Front Heavy Rain
PING Fan,LUO Zhe-Xian
- An Improved Atmospheric Vector Radiative Transfer Model Incorporating Rough Ocean Boundaries
FAN Xue-Hua,CHEN Hong-Bin,HAN Zhi-Gang,LIN Long-Fu
- A Case Study of the Impacts of Dust Aerosols on Surface Atmospheric Variables and Energy Budgets in ...
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Available online: http://www.iapjournals.ac.cn/aosl/ch/reader/new_year_article.aspx?year_id=2010&q [...]
Contains:
- Analysis of a Beijing Heavy Snowfall Related to an Inverted Trough in November 2009
LI Jin,ZHAO Si-Xiong,YU Fei
- Comparative Studies of Different Mesoscale Convection Parameterization Schemes in the Simulation of Mei-Yu Front Heavy Rain
PING Fan,LUO Zhe-Xian
- An Improved Atmospheric Vector Radiative Transfer Model Incorporating Rough Ocean Boundaries
FAN Xue-Hua,CHEN Hong-Bin,HAN Zhi-Gang,LIN Long-Fu
- A Case Study of the Impacts of Dust Aerosols on Surface Atmospheric Variables and Energy Budgets in a Semi-Arid Region of China
LING Xiao-Lu,GUO Wei-Dong,ZHANG Lei,ZHANG Ren-Jian
- A Recent Approach Incorporating External Forces to Predict Nonstationary Processes
WANG Ge-Li,YANG Pei-Cai
- The Northern Path of Asian Dust Transport from the Gobi Desert to North America
CHEN Ke-Yi
- Response of the Kuroshio Current to Eddies in the Luzon Strait
ZHAO Jie,LUO De-Hai
- A Multivariate Empirical Orthogonal Function-Based Scheme for the Balanced Initial Ensemble Generation of an Ensemble Kalman Filter
ZHENG Fei,ZHU Jiang
- The Sensitive Regions Identified by CNOPs of Three Typhoon Events
QIN Xiao-Hao
- Model Projections of East Asian Summer Climate under the ‘Free Arctic’ Scenario
WANG Hui-Jun,ZHANG YingLanguage(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill., charts)Tags: Weather ; Heavy snowfall ; Heavy rain ; Air pollution ; Tropical cyclone ; Melting Ice ; Climate change ; Scenario ; Region II - Asia ; China
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Forecasting of heavy rains and floods: proceedings of a joint training seminar held by Regional Associations II and V of the World Meteorological Organization
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Event: Seminar on Forecasting of heavy rains and floods (11-23 November 1968; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Published by: WMO ; 1970Language(s): English
Format: Hard copy (ill., charts, maps)Tags: Capacity development ; Flood forecasting ; Heavy rain
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