The majority of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning across the United States lowers negative charge to the ground. However, recent studies have documented storms that produce an abundance of positive CG lightning. These positive storms have been shown to occur in different mesoscale regions on the same days, and in different thermodynamic environments. This study uses radar data, and CG lightning da...

Monitoring programs for urban runoff have not been assessed for effectiveness or efficiency in estimating mass emissions. In order to determine appropriate designs for stormwater, total suspended solids (TSS) and flow information from the Santa Ana River was collected nearly every 15 min for every storm of the 1998 water year. All samples were used to calculate the "true load" and then three wi...

This M. Sc. thesis studies the statistical characteristics of convective storms in a monsoon regime in Darwin, northern Australia. It has been conducted with the use of radar. Enhanced knowledge of tropical convection is essential in studies of the global climate, and this study aims to bring light on some special characteristics of storms in a tropical environment. The observed behaviour of co...

An analysis of the storm climate of the Northeast Atlantic and the North Sea as simulated by a regional climate model for the past 44 years is presented. The model simulates the period 1958-2001 driven by the National Center for Environmental Prediction’s (NCEP’s) weather re-analysis. Comparison with observations shows that the model is capable of reproducing impact related storm indices such a...

Weather extremes are one important element of ongoing climate change, but their impacts are poorly understood because they are, by definition, rare events. If the frequency and severity of extreme weather events increase, there is an urgent need to understand and predict the ecological consequences of such events. In this study, we aimed to quantify the effects of snow storms on nest survival i...

Dust storms are of interest to study since they are correlated to an increase in mortality rates due to respiratory illness especially in the south-western U.S. With the aim of providing better tools to the understanding of dust storms, we present models for detection of dust storms from MODIS Terra Level 1B radiances, which can be applied in near real time with 1km resolution, in contrast to t...