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Quasi-Stationary Convective Events

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Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting

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Quasi-stationary, or very slowly moving, storm systems are of particular interest to the forecaster, because they frequently produce heavy rainfall and flash floods. These convective weather systems are composed at any moment of many individual storms, all in various stages of their life cycles. The individual storms frequently have trajectories that carry them repeatedly over the same region, producing pulsating heavy rains that quickly cause streams and rivers to overflow their banks.

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  1. Charles F. Chappell
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  1. NOAA/ERL National Severe Storms Laboratory, 73069, Norman, OK, USA

    Peter S. Ray

  2. Dept. of Meteorology and Supercomputer Computations Research Institute, Florida State University, 32306, Tallahassee, FL, USA

    Peter S. Ray

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Chappell, C.F. (1986). Quasi-Stationary Convective Events. In: Ray, P.S. (eds) Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-935704-20-1_13

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