On-Station Research
A Living Document - Check for Additions!
updated 9 October 2005
Part
I - "History of the SFC in the AFOS Era" Presented
by Jim Johnson, 9th High Plains Conference, October, 2005, North
Platte, NE
Part
II - "The Next Generation SFC" Presented
by Mike Umscheid, 9th High Plains Conference, October, 2005, North
Platte, NE
Aviation
Hazards and Tips on Aviation Forecasting from the Pilot's perspective.
Presented by Jim Johnson at High Plains Chapter AMS/NWA
chapter meeting, August, 2005. Colby KS.
Density
Currents, Waves and Bores; Little Known Hazards to Aviation
Presented by Jim Johnson at Airmass 2005, Wichita, KS 2005.
Numerical
Model Interrogation Using the FSL D3D; A Paradigm Shift for Operational
Forecasters Presented by Jim Johnson, session chair AMS 82nd
Annual Meeting, 18th International Conference on Interactive
Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography,
and Hydrology, and at the 2001, 5th Annual High Plains Conference.
Special
Local Area Climatology Studies
Jonathan
Finch has prepared some detailed local climatological studies for
snowfall at a few locations
in western
Kansas and a general hail and Tornado climatology for the entire DDC
county warning
area.
His data sources were:
Snow data - Weather Data Library at Kansas State
University.
Hail data - Storm Prediction
Center(SPC), Norman OK.
Tornado data -
SPC and "Significant Tornadoes" by Tom Grazulis.
Verification
of Extended Period Forecasts at NWS Dodge City, KS Scott
Reiter and Steve Hunter; Preprints 17th Conference on Weather Analysis
and Forecasting, Denver, 1999, Amer. Meteor. Soc.
Using the 'Short Fuse
Composite' in support of Sub-VORTEX-RFD
in May 1998. Presented by Jim Johnson at the 2nd Annual High Plains
Conference.
Revisiting
the 'Short Fuse Composite' - 10 Years Later.
Presented by Jim Johnson at the Lubbock, TX NWS-Texas Tech Univ. Severe
Weather Conference February, 1999.
Proposed typification of high
plains Undular
Bores Presented by Jim Johnson at the 2nd Annual High Plains
Conference. Also appearing in the Pre-Prints for the AMS 12th Symposium
on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, Vancouver, Canada.
Winter
Lightning in the Southeast U.S. and its Relation to Heavy Frozen
Precipitation.
Steve Hunter, Jeff Underwood, Ron Holle, and Tom Mote; Preprints, 19th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Minneapolis, 1998, Amer. Meteor. Soc.
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