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Monthly Weather Review

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Volume 152 (2024): Issue 7 (Jul 2024)

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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2.8

2023 Journal Impact Factors in the Meteorology and Atmospheric Science category

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Examining Outer Band Supercell Environments in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones using Ground-Based Radar Analyses

A. Addison Alford
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Benjamin Schenkel
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Samuel Hernandez
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Jun A. Zhang
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Michael I. Biggerstaff
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Emily Blumenauer
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Thea N. Sandmæl
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Sean M. Waugh
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Modulation of U.S. tornado activity by year-round North American weather regimes

Michael K. Tippett
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Kelsey Malloy
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Simon H. Lee
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Surface currents and relative-wind stress in coupled ocean-atmosphere simulations of the northern California Current System

R. M. Samelson
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S. M. Durski
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D. B. Chelton
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E. D. Skyllingstad
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P. L. Barbour
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A Tale of Two Novembers: Confounding influences on La Niña’s relationship with rainfall in Australia

Carly R. Tozer
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James S. Risbey
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Michael J. Pook
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Didier P. Monselesan
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Damien Irving
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Nandini Ramesh
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Doug Richardson
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Physics-based vs. data-driven 24-hour probabilistic forecasts of precipitation for northern tropical Africa

Eva–Maria Walz
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Peter Knippertz
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Andreas H. Fink
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Gregor Köhler
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Tilmann Gneiting
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Cold Surge Impacts on the Structure, Energy Budget, and Turbulence of the South China Sea Boundary Layer

Kuan-Yun Wang
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Chung-Hsiung Sui
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Mong-Ming Lu
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Jing-Shan Hong
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The Contribution of Mesoscale Convective Systems to the Coastal Rainfall Maximum over West Africa

Shun-Nan Wu
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Naoko Sakaeda
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Elinor Martin
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Rosimar Rios-Berrios
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James Russell
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A Quantile-Conserving Ensemble Filter Framework. Part III: Data Assimilation for Mixed Distributions with Application to a Low-Order Tracer Advection Model

Jeffrey Anderson
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Chris Riedel
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Molly Wieringa
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Fairuz Ishraque
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Marlee Smith
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Helen Kershaw
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Diagnostics for Imbalance on the Convective Scale

Theresa Diefenbach
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Leonhard Scheck
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Martin Weissmann
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George Craig
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Estimating wind speeds in tornadoes using debris trajectories of large compact objects

Connell S. Miller
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Gregory A. Kopp
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David M.L. Sills
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Daniel G. Butt
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Diagnosing Radial Ventilation in Dropsonde Observations of Hurricane Sam (2021)

Brian H. Tang
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Rosimar Rios-Berrios
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Jun A. Zhang
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Asymmetries During Eyewall Replacement Cycles of Hurricane Ivan (2004)

Bruno S. Rojas
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Anthony C. Didlake Jr.
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Jun A. Zhang
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Superobbing and Thinning Scales for All-sky Humidity Sounder Assimilation

David I. Duncan
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Niels Bormann
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Alan J. Geer
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Peter Weston
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Climatological aspects of notable tornado events in Chile

Julio C. Marín
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Felipe Gutiérrez
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Vittorio A. Gensini
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Bradford S. Barrett
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Diana Pozo
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Martín Jacques-Coper
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Daniel Veloso-Aguila
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How does vertical wind shear influence updraft characteristics and hydrometeor distributions in supercell thunderstorms?

Jake P. Mulholland
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Christopher J. Nowotarski
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John M. Peters
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Hugh Morrison
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Erik R. Nielsen
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Deep Learning of a 200-member Ensemble with a Limited Historical Training to Improve the Prediction of Extreme Precipitation Events

Mohammadvaghef Ghazvinian
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Luca Delle Monache
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Vesta Afzali Gorooh
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Daniel Steinhoff
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Agniv Sengupta
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Weiming Hu
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Matthew Simpson
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Rachel Weihs
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Caroline Papadopoulos
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Patrick Mulrooney
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Brian Kawzenuk
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Nora Mascioli
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Fred Martin Ralph
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A Climatology of Convective Precipitation over Europe

Kelly Lombardo
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Miranda Bitting

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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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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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