Monthly Weather Review

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Volume 151 (2023): Issue 12 (Dec 2023)

About the Journal

Monthly Weather Review (MWR) publishes research relevant to the analysis and prediction of observed atmospheric circulations and physics, including technique development, data assimilation, model validation, and relevant case studies. This research includes numerical and data assimilation techniques that apply to the atmosphere and/or ocean environments. MWR also addresses phenomena having seasonal and subseasonal time scales.

ISSN: 0027-0644; elSSN: 1520-0493

Editor in Chief

Ron McTaggart-Cowan, Environment and Climate Change Canada

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Identifying Meteorological Drivers for Errors in Modeled Winds Along the Northern California Coast

Ye Liu
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Brian Gaudet
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Raghavendra Krishnamurthy
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Sheng-Lun Tai
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Larry K. Berg
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Nicola Bodini
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Alex Rybchuk
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Andrew Kumler
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Elevated Mixed Layers during Great Lake Lake-effect Events: An Investigation and Case Study from OWLeS

Steven J. Greybush
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Todd D. Sikora
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George S. Young
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Quinlan Mulhern
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Richard D. Clark
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Michael L. Jurewicz Sr.
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Modelling Variability in Tropical Cyclone Maximum Wind Location and Intensity using InCyc: A Global Database of High-Resolution Tropical Cyclone Simulations

Nicolas Bruneau
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Thomas Loridan
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Nic Hannah
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Eugene Dubossarsky
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Mathis Joffrain
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John Knaff
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Testing stochastic and perturbed parameter methods in an experimental 1-km Warn-on-Forecast system using NSSL’s phased-array radar observations

Derek R. Stratman
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Nusrat Yussouf
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Christopher A. Kerr
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Brian C. Matilla
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John R. Lawson
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Yaping Wang
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Probabilistic Convective Initiation Nowcasting Using Himawari-8 AHI with Explainable Deep Learning Models

Yang Li
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Yubao Liu
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Yueqin Shi
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Baojun Chen
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Fanhui Zeng
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Zhaoyang Huo
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Hang Fan
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Tornadoes in Southeast South America: Mesoscale to Planetary-scale Environments

Daniel Veloso-Aguila
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Kristen L. Rasmussen
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Eric D. Maloney
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The potential roles of preexisting airmass boundaries on a tornadic supercell observed by TORUS on 28 May 2019

Kristen L. Axon
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Adam L. Houston
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Conrad L. Ziegler
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Christopher C. Weiss
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Erik N. Rasmussen
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Michael C. Coniglio
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Brian Argrow
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Eric Frew
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Sara Swenson
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Anthony E. Reinhart
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Matthew B. Wilson
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ENSO and MJO Modulation of U.S. Cloud-to-ground Lightning Activity

Kelsey Malloy
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Michael K. Tippett
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William J. Koshak
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Improving simulations of warm rain in a bulk microphysics scheme

Robert Conrick
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Clifford F. Mass
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Lynn McMurdie
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Unusual Tropical cyclone Tracks under the Influence of Upper Tropospheric Cold Low

Han Li
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Ziyu Yan
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Melinda Peng
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Xuyang Ge
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Zhuo Wang
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Analysis of Hail Production via Simulated Hailstone Trajectories in the 29 May 2012 Kingfisher, OK Supercell

Lauren E. Pounds
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Conrad L. Ziegler
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Rebecca D. Adams-Selin
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Michael I. Biggerstaff
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Reexamining the Estimation of Tropical Cyclones Radius of Maximum Wind from Outer Size with an Extensive Synthetic Aperture Radar Dataset

Arthur Avenas
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Alexis Mouche
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Pierre Tandeo
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Jean-Francois Piolle
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Dan Chavas
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Ronan Fablet
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John Knaff
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Bertrand Chapron
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CFL Optimized Forward-Backward Runge-Kutta Schemes for the Shallow Water Equations

Jeremy R. Lilly
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Darren Engwirda
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Giacomo Capodaglio
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Robert L. Higdon
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Mark R. Petersen
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Role of midlatitude baroclinic condition in heavy rainfall events directly induced by tropical cyclones in South Korea

Chanil Park
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Seok-Woo Son
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Yukari N. Takayabu
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Sang-Hun Park
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Dong-Hyun Cha
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Eun Jeong Cha
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Measurements and model improvement: Insight into NWP model error using Doppler lidar and other WFIP2 measurement systems

Robert M. Banta
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Yelena L. Pichugina
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W. Alan Brewer
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Kelly A. Balmes
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Bianca Adler
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Joseph Sedlar
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Lisa S. Darby
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David D. Turner
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Jaymes S. Kenyon
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Edward J. Strobach
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Brian J. Carroll
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Justin Sharp
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Mark T. Stoelinga
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Joel Cline
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Harindra J.S. Fernando

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A Revised Scheme for the WRF Surface Layer Formulation

Pedro A. Jiménez
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Jimy Dudhia
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J. Fidel González-Rouco
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Jorge Navarro
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Juan P. Montávez
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Elena García-Bustamante
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Operational Convective-Scale Numerical Weather Prediction with the COSMO Model: Description and Sensitivities

Michael Baldauf
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Axel Seifert
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Jochen Förstner
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Detlev Majewski
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Matthias Raschendorfer
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Thorsten Reinhardt
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Stratocumulus Clouds

Robert Wood
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A North American Hourly Assimilation and Model Forecast Cycle: The Rapid Refresh

Stanley G. Benjamin
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Stephen S. Weygandt
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John M. Brown
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Ming Hu
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Curtis R. Alexander
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Tatiana G. Smirnova
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Tracy Lorraine Smith
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William R. Moninger
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Jaymes S. Kenyon
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Geoffrey S. Manikin
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A Multiscale Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Model Using Centroidal Voronoi Tesselations and C-Grid Staggering

William C. Skamarock
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Joseph B. Klemp
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Michael G. Duda
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Laura D. Fowler
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Sang-Hun Park
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Todd D. Ringler
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A North American Hourly Assimilation and Model Forecast Cycle: The Rapid Refresh

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Georg A. Grell
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Haidao Lin
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Tracy Lorraine Smith
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William R. Moninger
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