Use of AFOS Mesoscale Analysis Programs (MESO1) during Heavy Rains, 3/21/83

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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
• Description:
  During most synoptic-scale events, surface divergence fields do not adequately reflect dynamic fields, aloft, because the surface is effectively decoupled from the upper atmosphere by a frontal inversion--particularly with warm frontal inversions. On March 21, a storm was moving thru the mid-Atlantic and Northwestern U.S. and producing heavy rains (see Figure 1). Sites receiving heavy rain were in, or near, the warm sector. Since there are no frontal inversions in the warm sector, surface divergence fields should have reflected upper-level dynamics.
• Keywords:
  Automation Rain And Rainfall Severe Storms Synoptic Meteorology Weather Forecasting Rain And Rainfall Severe Storms Synoptic Meteorology Weather Forecasting
• Series:
  Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.))   83-5
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Attachment
• Place as Subject:
  East (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
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