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Gary Wick authored and/or contributed to the following articles/publications.
Research over the last decade and a half confirms that the vast majority of West Coast cool-season extreme precipitation events are due to the landfall of intense wind-driven streams of concentrated water vapor associated with extratropical cyclones called atmospheric rivers (ARs). Accurate prediction of the effects of ARs as they come ashore de...
Improved Characterization and Monitoring of Moisture Associated With Atmospheric Rivers
The accurate characterization of atmospheric moisture fields (including water vapor and clouds) is essential for improved forecasts of cool- and warm-season heavy precipitation events associated with Atmospheric Rivers (AR) and AR-like events observed around the world. Our experience with the Atmospheric River Observatories established along the...
WRF Ensemble Model Performance during Atmospheric River Events in California
During the third week of January 2010 a series of heavy-rainfall-producing systems apparently related to an atmospheric river (AR) swept into California during the Hydrometeorological Testbed (HMT) winter exercise. As part of this exercise, an experimental regional ensemble Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) numerical modeling system develop...