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Ahijevych, D. A., R. E. Carbone, and J. D. Tuttle, 2001: Radar data and climatological statistics associated with warm season precipitation episodes over the continental United States. NCAR/Tech. Note-448+STR. link

Ahijevych, D. A., R. E. Carbone, and J. D. Tuttle, 2001: Warm season rainfall as a function of longitude and time of day over the U. S., Preprints, 30th International Conf. on Radar Meteor., Munich, Germany, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 665-667. link

Ahijevych, D. A., C. A. Davis, and R. E. Carbone, 2002: Environment near U. S. warm season precipitation episodes. Book of abstracts - Volume 2, International Conf. on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Reading, U. K., World Weather Research Programme, 68. poster

Ahijevych, D. A., R. E. Carbone, C. A. Davis, and J. D. Tuttle, 2002: Large–scale environment and diurnal cycle of U.S. warm season precipitation episodes. Preprints, 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction, San Antonio, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 148-151. link

Ahijevych, D. A., C. A. Davis, R. E. Carbone, and J. D. Tuttle, 2004: Initiation of precipitation episodes relative to elevated terrain. J. Atmos. Sci., 61 (22), 2763-2769.

Ahijevych, D. A., C. A. Davis, and R. E. Carbone, 2003: Initiation of precipitation episodes relative to elevated terrain. Preprints, 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 6.9.

Ahijevych, D. A., R. E. Carbone, and C. A. Davis, 2003: Regional-scale aspects of the diurnal precipitation cycle. Preprints, 31st International Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 5B.3.

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, L. J. Miller, R. Oye, and S. B. Trier, 1999: Large domain studies of warm season precipitation episodes. Preprints, 29th International Conf. On Radar Meteor., Montreal, Canada, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 596-599.

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, D. A. Ahijevych, and S. B. Trier., 2001: Inferences of predictability associated with warm season precipitation episodes. Preprints, 30th International Conf. On Radar Meteor., Munich, Germany, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 662-664. link

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, D. A. Ahijevych, and S. B. Trier, 2001: Inferences of predictability associated with warm season precipitation episodes. Preprints, Ninth Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 276-278. link

Carbone, R. E., L. J. Miller, J. D. Tuttle, C. A. Davis, S. B. Trier, and D. A. Ahijevych, 2002: Warm season precipitation episodes in the United States: case studies. Book of abstracts - Volume 1, International Conf. on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Reading, U. K., World Weather Research Programme, 50. Powerpoint presentation

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, D. A. Ahijevych, and S. B. Trier, 2002: Inferences of predictability associated with warm season precipitation episodes. J. Atmos. Sci., 59 (13), 2033-2056. link  link*

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, D. Ahijevych, S. B. Trier, 2002: Summer rainfall: Going on and on…. Papers of Note, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83 (5), 676.

Carbone, R. E., A. Barros, C. A. Davis, and M. W. Moncrieff, 2003: Observing, understanding and predicting warm season continental rainfall. Abstract Volume, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA., Amer. Meteor. Soc., 19. link

Carbone, R. E., J. D. Tuttle, and D. A. Ahijevych, 2003: Inter-annual and semi-diurnal variations in summertime precipitation. Preprints, 31st International Conf. on Radar Meteor., Amer. Meteor. Soc., Seattle, WA, CD-ROM, 5B.2.

 

Davis, C. A., and S. B. Trier, 2002: Cloud-resolving simulations of mesoscale vortex intensification and its effect on a serial mesoscale convective system. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2839-2858. link*

Davis, C. A., S. B. Trier, J. D. Tuttle, R. E. Carbone, L. J. Miller, and R. Oye, 2000: A multi-dataset analysis of the morphology of mesoscale convective vortices, Preprints, Fourth Conf. On Integrated Observing Systems, Long Beach, California, Amer. Meteor. Soc. link

Davis, C. A., S. B. Trier, D. A. Ahijevych and R. E. Carbone, 2001: Predictability of heavy precipitation induced by mesoscale convective vortices. Preprints, Symposium on Precip. Extremes: Prediction, Impacts, and Responses, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 143-146.

Davis, C. A., D. A. Ahijevych, and S. B. Trier, 2002: Detection and prediction of warm season mid-tropospheric vortices by the rapid update cycle. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 24-42. link*

Davis, C. A., D. A. Ahijevych, R. E. Carbone, and K. W. Manning, 2002: Statistical-dynamical forecats of warm season rainfall over North America. Book of abstracts - Volume 2, International Conf. on Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Reading, U. K., World Weather Research Programme, 87.

Davis, C. A., D. A. Ahijevych, R. E. Carbone, K. W. Manning, and J. D. Tuttle, 2002: Statistical-dynamical forecasts of warm season rainfall over North America. Preprints, 19th Conf. on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/15th Conf. on Numerical Weather Prediction, San Antonio, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 152-155. link

Davis, C. A., K. W. Manning, R. E. Carbone, S. B. Trier, and J. D. Tuttle, 2003: Coherence of warm-season continental rainfall in numerical weather prediction models. Mon. Wea. Rev., 131, 2667-2679. link*

Moncrieff, M.W., and C. Liu, 2003: Sequences of precipitation in organized convection: Dynamics and parameterization. Abstract Volume, Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 6. link

Trier, S. B., and C. A. Davis, 2002: Influence of Balanced Motions on Heavy Precipitation within a Long-Lived Convectively Generated Vortex. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 877-899. link*

Trier, S. B., C. A. Davis, and J. D. Tuttle, 2000: Long-lived mesoconvective vortices and their environment. Part I: Observations from the central United States during the 1998 warm season.  Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 3376-3395.   link*

Trier, S. B., C. A. Davis, J. D. Tuttle, D. A. Ahijevych, and R. E. Carbone, 2001: Radar observations of mesoconvective vortices over the continential United States. Preprints, 30th International Conf. On Radar Meteor., Munich, Germany, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 659-661.  link

Tuttle, J. D., and R. E. Carbone, 2004: Coherent regeneration and the role of water vapor and shear in a long-lived convective episode. Mon. Wea. Rev, (in press).

Tuttle, J. D., and R. E. Carbone, 2003: Can't see the forest for the trees: Methods for the analysis and visualization of large radar datasets. Preprints, 31st International Conf. on Radar Meteorology, Seattle, WA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 5B.1. link

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