On-Station Research

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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, 19^th Conference on Severe Local Storms, Minneapolis, 1998, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

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