Monthly Weather Review

CURRENT ISSUE

Volume 153 (2025): Issue 3 (Mar 2025)

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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Generation Mechanisms of Near-Cloud Turbulence Events in the Upper-Level Outflow of Tropical Cyclone Hagibis

Ju Heon Lee
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Jung-Hoon Kim
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Stanley B. Trier
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Robert D. Sharman
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James D. Doyle
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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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Atlantic Hurricane Database Uncertainty and Presentation of a New Database Format

Christopher W. Landsea
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James L. Franklin
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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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Joseph B. Olson
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Eric P. James
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David C. Dowell
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Georg A. Grell
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Haidao Lin
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Steven E. Peckham
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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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Climatological Characteristics of Atmospheric Rivers and Their Inland Penetration over the Western United States

Jonathan J. Rutz
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W. James Steenburgh
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F. Martin Ralph
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Review of the Ensemble Kalman Filter for Atmospheric Data Assimilation

P. L. Houtekamer
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Fuqing Zhang
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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

Stanley G. Benjamin
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Ming Hu
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Curtis R. Alexander
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Tatiana G. Smirnova
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Joseph B. Olson
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Eric P. James
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David C. Dowell
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Georg A. Grell
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Haidao Lin
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