An Assessment of Dropsonde Sampling Strategies for Atmospheric River Reconnaissance

M Zheng, R Torn, L Delle Monache… - Monthly Weather …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
During a 6-day intensive observing period in January 2021, Atmospheric River
Reconnaissance (AR Recon) aircraft sampled a series of atmospheric rivers (ARs) over the …

Predicting the spatiotemporal characteristics of atmospheric rivers: A novel data-driven approach

S Meghani, S Singh, N Kumar, MK Goyal - Global and Planetary Change, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) are narrow bands of high-water vapor content in the low
troposphere of mid-latitude regions through which most of the poleward moisture is being …

Forecast evaluation of the North Pacific jet stream using AR Recon dropwindsondes

DA Lavers, RD Torn, C Davis… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The term jet stream generally refers to a narrow region of intense winds near the top of the
midlatitude or subtropical troposphere. It is in the midlatitude jet stream where instabilities …

Observability of moisture transport divergence in Arctic atmospheric rivers by dropsondes

H Dorff, H Konow, V Schemann… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
This study emulates dropsondes to elucidate the extent to which sporadic airborne sondes
adequately represent divergence of moisture transport in Arctic atmospheric rivers (ARs) …

An innovative approach to predict atmospheric rivers: Exploring convolutional autoencoder

S Singh, MK Goyal - Atmospheric Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are filamentary regions of high moisture content in mid-latitude
regions through which most of the poleward moisture is being transported. These ARs carry …

Dropsonde Observations of the Stable Marine Boundary Layer beneath Atmospheric Rivers

FM Ralph, M Simpson, S Iacobellis… - Monthly Weather …, 2024 - journals.ametsoc.org
An important source of errors in predicting landfalling atmospheric rivers (ARs) and their
associated extreme precipitation and streamflow are inaccuracies in model initial conditions …

Impacts of Dropsonde Observations on Forecasts of Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation in the NCEP GFS and ECMWF IFS models

LL DeHaan, AM Wilson, B Kawzenuk… - Weather and …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Atmospheric River Reconnaissance has held field campaigns during cool seasons
since 2016. These campaigns have provided thousands of dropsonde data profiles, which …

Evaluation of GNSS Radio Occultation Profiles in the Vicinity of Atmospheric Rivers

MJ Murphy Jr, JS Haase - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Increasing the density of Global Navigation Satellite System radio occultation (RO) with
commercial Smallsats and the next generation COSMIC-2 constellation is expected to …

Impacts of northeastern Pacific buoy surface pressure observations

CA Reynolds, RE Stone, JD Doyle… - Monthly Weather …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract Under the Atmospheric River Reconnaissance (AR Recon) Program, ocean drifting
buoys (drifters) that provide surface pressure observations were deployed in the …

A multidisciplinary training opportunity for the next generation of Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) collaborators

A Cobb, J Cordeira, M Dettinger… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
In July 2022, the first Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) Colloquium took place
at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). FIRO is a reservoir-operations strategy that …