Poetry heard at the AMS Tropical Meteorological meeting :
"Big whorls have little whorls,
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity."
— Lewis Fry Richardson
Michael Wehner
Not being an actual meteorologist, I have a question about the NCEP Stage IV radar precipitation dataset. The attached picture is a snapshot of the current SoCal radar. The concentric circles at Hanford and Santa Maria are clearly artifacts. Does NCEP correct for this?
Latest paper on impact attribution. A must read for those interested in the topic doi.org/10.3389/fcli...
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New(ish) paper: journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
The American Meteorological Society seeks nominations for the 2026 Syukuro Manabe Climate Research Award. Nominations due 5/1/26.
This award is granted to researchers who have made outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of Earth’s climate system.
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Abstract: The case is made that machine-learning statistical estimation neither can nor should be expected to supplant physics-based simulation for weather forecasting.
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‘Snow-Eater’ Heat Wave Behind Big Sierra Melt Is a Look at Our Climate Future
“Without a long-term warming trend, these events were previously either unlikely or statistically impossible. We kind of unlock that possibility”
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Michael Wehner
Michael Wehner
Michael Wehner
How well do ML weather models capture severe storms?
A new analysis of Storm Amy compares ECMWF’s forecasting systems.
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