This page is subject to drastic change over the coming months.  It includes the major course sections, and a selection of possible readings/articles for discussion for each section.

0. Review of Synoptic Meteorology

• Applied Hydrometeorology: Chapters 2, 3, 4 (basic atmospheric properties review, if necessary)
• Applied Hydrometeorology: Chapter 5 (Weather Systems, if necessary)

1. Meteorological Ingredients and the Production of Rainfall

• Doswell, Brooks, and Maddox, 1996: Flash flood forecasting: an ingredients-based methodology.  WAF, vol. 11, 560-581.
• Maddox, Chappell, and Hoxit, 1979: Synoptic and meso-alpha scale aspects of flash flood events.  BAMS, vol. 60, 115-123.
• Shuttleworth, Terrestrial Hydrometeorology, Chs. 10 (Formation of Clouds) & 11 (Formation of Precipitation)
• Lamb, D., 2001: Rain production in convective storms.  (Basic mesoscale and microphysical processes)

2. Precipitation Distribution in Mesoscale Weather Systems

• To review for inclusion: COMET Module on Atmospheric Rivers
• To review for inclusion: Mountain Meteorology 8 (Precipitation)
• Applied Hydrometeorology: Chapter 7 (Tropical Storms and Hurricanes)

3. Interactions of Meteorology and Hydrology during Flood Events

• To review for inclusion: several COMET Modules on Flash Flood Processes, Snowmelt Processes, Runoff Processes, Streamflow Routing

4. Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts (QPF)

• Verification of Quantitative Precipitation Reforecasts over the Southeastern United States
• Extreme Quantitative Precipitation Forecast Performance at the Weather Prediction Center from 2001 to 2011
• Lackmann, Chapter 11.3.2 on Precipitation Forecasting

5. Hydrometeorological Observing and Measurement Systems

• Kidd, C., A. Becker, G. Huffman, and others, 2017: So, how much of the Earth’s surface is covered by rain gauges?  BAMS, January 2017, 69-78.
• Belfort website on wind deflectors and accuracy
• To review for inclusion: COMET Module on Precipitation Estimates (multi-part)
• To review for inclusion: Applied Hydrometeorology Chapter 9 (Precipitation and its Measurement)

6. Polarimetric Radar Measurements of Precipitation; QPE

• To review for inclusion: Chapter 8 of Doviak.  Drop size distributions, single- and dual-pol-parameter QPE
• To review for inclusion: Hong and Gourley, Radar Hydrology, Chapters 2 and 3