Huntsville Climatology: Highly favorable for GPM GV

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GV RESOURCES AT NSSTC, HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA Walt
Petersen, UAH/ESSC/NSSTC

• TOPICS
• Overview and Facilities
• Location/Management
• Available Instrumentation
• Standard Products
• Precip. Environment
• Precip. stats
• Crosswalk of site capabilities

Courtesy Oregon Climate Service
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Huntsville Climatology

• Averages
• Annual precipitation 1453 mm (57.2 in)
• Number of precipitation days (?0.01 in) 115.9
• Number of days with rain total ? 1.00 in 17.9
• Number of thunderstorm days 57.4
• Snowfall 2.5 in
• Broad range of precipitation system types
• prefrontal rainbands and convective (squall)
  lines
• cyclonic precipitation systems
• MCSs (broad range of types)
• isolated thunderstorms (air mass to supercell)
• high frequency of stratiform (bright band) and
  convective
• Frequent rain-snow line between Nashville (10.0
  in. annual snowfall) and Huntsville in winter
• Cloud microphysical processes warm cold
  cloud

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Huntsville Climatology Monthly Trends
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N. ALABAMA THUNDERSTORM STORM PHENOMENOLOGY
Monthly Climatology