Two animations made by Yongzhen Fan’s team using their snowfall rate product showing the evolution of the two winter storms. Credit: Yongzhen Fan Last week,…
The Snowfall Rate (SFR) team at STAR and ESSIC/CISESS, including Huan Meng, Yongzhen Fan, and Jun Dong, has made some notable progress recently that significantly…
Figure: (Top panel) Rain-Rate predicted by eTRaP and observed by MRMS. (Bottom panel) Scatter plot and estimation metrics for Tropical Storm Fiona between September 18,…
The STAR scientist team of Huan Meng, Yongzhen Fan, Jun Dong, and Yalei You examined the performance of snowfall estimates from the passive microwave snowfall…
The first nor’easter of 2022 swept through the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast on January 2-4, 2022, resulting in a heavy snow accumulation of up to…
Figure: S-NPP SFR during the first accumulating snow of the 2021-2022 winter season in the central Appalachian counties. The ESSIC/CISESS snowfall rate (SFR) team, Huan…
Figure 1. Global and regional validation of the logistic regression (blue), deep neural network (orange), random forest(green) and XGboost (red) snowfall detection (SD) model for…
On August 18, 2021, the western part of North Carolina suffered a catastrophic flash flood caused by Tropical Storm Fred. As part of a NOAA/STAR…