Weather and Forecasting

CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 38 (2023): Issue 12 (Dec 2023)

About the Journal

Weather and Forecasting (WAF) publishes research that is relevant to operational forecasting. This includes papers on significant weather events, forecasting techniques, forecast verification, model parameterizations, data assimilation, model ensembles, statistical postprocessing techniques, the transfer of research results to the forecasting community, and the societal use and value of forecasts. The scope of WAF includes research relevant to forecast lead times ranging from short-term “nowcasts” through seasonal time scales out to approximately two years.

ISSN: 0882-8156; elSSN: 1520-0434

Editor in Chief

Matthew Bunkers, NOAA/NWS

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Impact Factor

2.9 

2022 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category

Weather and Forecasting moves to monthly publication schedule in 2022

AMS Publications is happy to announce that Weather and Forecasting (WAF), now entering its 37th year as one of AMS’s leading journals, will be moving to a monthly publication schedule starting with the January 2022 issue.

Founded in 1986, WAF was published quarterly until moving to a six-issue-per-year bimonthly journal in 1999. Its progress to a monthly publication reflects the growing page count and popularity it enjoys, and is a testament to its enduring value to the research and operational forecasting community.

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The Development and Accuracy Assessment of Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Forecasts

Jordan Clark
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Charles E. Konrad
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Andrew Grundstein
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Predicting Short-term Intensity change in Tropical Cyclones using a Convolutional Neural Network

Sarah M. Griffin
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Anthony Wimmers
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Christopher S. Velden
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Verification of Quasi-Linear Convective Systems Predicted by the Warn-on-Forecast System (WoFS)

Kelsey C. Britt
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Patrick S. Skinner
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Pamela L. Heinselman
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Corey K. Potvin
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Montgomery L. Flora
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Brian Matilla
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Kent H. Knopfmeier
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Anthony E. Reinhart
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Assessing RRFS vs. HRRR in Predicting Widespread Convective Systems over Eastern CONUS

Joseph A. Grim
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James O. Pinto
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David C. Dowell
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Warn-on-Forecast System: From Vision to Reality

Pamela L. Heinselman
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Patrick C. Burke
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Louis J. Wicker
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Adam J. Clark
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John S. Kain
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Jidong Gao
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Nusrat Yussouf
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Thomas A. Jones
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Patrick S. Skinner
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Corey K. Potvin
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Katie A. Wilson
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Burkely T. Gallo
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Montgomery L. Flora
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Joshua Martin
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Gerry Creager
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Kent H. Knopfmeier
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Yunheng Wang
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Brian C. Matilla
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David C. Dowell
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Edward R. Mansell
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Brett Roberts
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Kimberly A. Hoogewind
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Derek R. Stratman
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Jorge Guerra
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Anthony E. Reinhart
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Christopher A. Kerr
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William Miller
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A Case Study Investigating the Low Summertime CAPE Behavior in the Global Forecast System

Xia Sun
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Dominikus Heinzeller
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Ligia Bernardet
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Linlin Pan
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Weiwei Li
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David Turner
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John Brown
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Documenting the Progressions of Secondary Eyewall Formations

Alex Alvin Cheung
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Christopher J. Slocum
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John A. Knaff
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Muhammad Naufal Razin
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Effects of Prognostic Number Concentrations of Snow and Graupel on the Simulated Precipitation over the Korean Peninsula

Juhee Kwon
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Kyo-Sun Sunny Lim
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Sun-Young Park
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Kwonil Kim
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Gyuwon Lee
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Composite Mesoscale Environmental Conditions Influencing Tornado Frequencies in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones

Stanley B. Trier
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David A. Ahijevych
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Dereka Carroll-Smith
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George H. Bryan
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Roger Edwards
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Towards improved short-term forecasting for Lake Victoria Basin: Part I – A radar-based convective mode analysis

Anna del Moral Méndez
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Tammy M. Weckwerth
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Rita D. Roberts
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James W. Wilson
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Deterministic Rapid Intensity Forecast Guidance for the Joint Typhoon Warning Center’s Area of Responsibility

C. R. Sampson
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J. A. Knaff
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C. J. Slocum
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M. J. Onderlinde
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A. Brammer
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M. Frost
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B. Strahl
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ProxyVis – a Proxy for Nighttime Visible Imagery Applicable to Geostationary Satellite Observations

Galina Chirokova
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John A. Knaff
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Michael J. Brennan
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Robert T. DeMaria
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Monica Bozeman
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Stephanie N. Stevenson
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John L. Beven
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Eric S. Blake
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Alan Brammer
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James W. Darlow
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Mark DeMaria
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Steven D. Miller
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Christopher J. Slocum
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Debra Molenar
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Donald W. Hillger
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Atmospheric River Reconnaissance 2021: A Review

Alison Cobb
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F. Martin Ralph
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Vijay Tallapragada
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Anna M. Wilson
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Christopher A. Davis
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Luca Delle Monache
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James D. Doyle
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Florian Pappenberger
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Carolyn A. Reynolds
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Aneesh Subramanian
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Peter G. Black
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Forest Cannon
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Chris Castellano
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Jason M. Cordeira
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Jennifer S. Haase
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Chad Hecht
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Brian Kawzenuk
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David A. Lavers
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Michael J. Murphy Jr.
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Jack Parrish
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Ryan Rickert
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Jonathan J. Rutz
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Ryan Torn
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Xingren Wu
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Minghua Zheng

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Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part I: Storm Classification and Climatology

Bryan T. Smith
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Richard L. Thompson
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Jeremy S. Grams
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Chris Broyles
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Harold E. Brooks
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The Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis (INCA) System and Its Validation over the Eastern Alpine Region

T. Haiden
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A. Kann
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C. Wittmann
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G. Pistotnik
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B. Bica
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C. Gruber
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Convective Modes for Significant Severe Thunderstorms in the Contiguous United States. Part II: Supercell and QLCS Tornado Environments

Richard L. Thompson
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Bryan T. Smith
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Jeremy S. Grams
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Andrew R. Dean
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Chris Broyles
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Lightning and Severe Weather: A Comparison between Total and Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Trends

Christopher J. Schultz
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Walter A. Petersen
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Lawrence D. Carey
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Evaluating Environmental Impacts on Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Predictability Utilizing Statistical Models

John Kaplan
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Christopher M. Rozoff
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Mark DeMaria
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Charles R. Sampson
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James P. Kossin
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Christopher S. Velden
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Joseph J. Cione
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Jason P. Dunion
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John A. Knaff
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Jun A. Zhang
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John F. Dostalek
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Jeffrey D. Hawkins
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Thomas F. Lee
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Jeremy E. Solbrig
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Verification of Convection-Allowing WRF Model Forecasts of the Planetary Boundary Layer Using Sounding Observations

Michael C. Coniglio
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James Correia Jr.
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Patrick T. Marsh
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Fanyou Kong
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An Objective High-Resolution Hail Climatology of the Contiguous United States

John L. Cintineo
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Travis M. Smith
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Valliappa Lakshmanan
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Harold E. Brooks
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20 May 2013 Moore, Oklahoma, Tornado: Damage Survey and Analysis

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Jim Ladue
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Rick Smith
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Tim Marshall
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Through the Eyes of the Experts: Meteorologists’ Perceptions of the Probability of Precipitation

Alan E. Stewart
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Castle A. Williams
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Minh D. Phan
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Alexandra L. Horst
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Evan D. Knox
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John A. Knox
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Vulnerability due to Nocturnal Tornadoes

Walker S. Ashley
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