When the wind comes sweeping down the plain
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 06:00
in Earth & Climate
Residents of Oklahoma and other plains states are wise to the blustery seasonal force gusting nightly during warm springs and summers, carrying the moisture needed for rain. So emblematic for the region they wrote a song about it, the low-level jet is easy for people to recognize. Still, computer models struggle to capture its complexity. When the models underestimate the amount of water carried in by the jets, they are not good precipitation predictors.