Harold E. Brooks

TL;DR: In this article, an approach to forecasting the potential for flash flood-producing storms is developed, using the notion of basic ingredients, such as the duration of an event, the speed of movement and the size of the system causing the event along the direction of system movement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)/United States National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis system to create soundings and find environmental conditions associated with significant severe thunderstorms (hail at least 5 cm in diameter, wind gusts at least 120 km h � 1, or a tornado of at least F2 damage) and to discriminate between significant tornadic and non-tornadic thunderstorm environments in the eastern United States for the period 1997-1999.

TL;DR: The state of knowledge regarding trends and an understanding of their causes for a specific subset of extreme weather and climate types is presented in this paper for severe convective storms (tornadoes, hailstorms, and severe thunderstorms).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that decadal variations in the number of U.S. heat and cold waves do not correlate well with the observed global warming during the last century, and the analysis of trends in river flooding is multiyear and even multidecadal variability likely caused by both large-scale atmospheric circulation changes and basin-scale "memory" in the form of soil moisture.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use global climate models and a high-resolution regional climate model to examine the larger-scale (or "environmental") meteorological conditions that foster severe thunderstorm formation.