Tag: Olivier Prat
Nov 8, 2021
NOAA NESDIS Outstanding Science and Research Team Member Award
Congratulations to NCICS’s Jonathan Brannock, Ronnie Leeper, Olivier Prat, and Scott Wilkins, who were recognized as members of the 2021 Outstanding Science and Research Team…
Dec 9, 2016
CICS-NC at AGU Fall 2016
CICS-NC scientists contributed to more than a dozen presentations and posters for the Fall 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Society (AGU) December 12-16, 2016, in San…
Dec 9, 2016
CICS-NC at AGU Fall 2016
CICS-NC scientists contributed to more than dozen presentations and posters for the Fall 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Society (AGU) December 12-16, 2016, in…
Nov 2, 2016
On the Link between Tropical Cyclones and Daily Rainfall Extremes Derived from Global Satellite Observations
Understanding the frequency and intensity of extreme precipitation events in relation to tropical cyclones is critical to the development of infrastructure in affected areas. Authors…
Olivier Prat
Quantitative Precipitation Estimation
Since joining NCICS in 2010, Dr. Olivier Prat has worked on quantitative precipitation estimates (QPEs) derived from satellite, radar, and surface observations with a focus…
Apr 1, 2016
Assessment and Implications of NCEP Stage IV Quantitative Precipitation Estimates for Product Intercomparisons
Olivier Prat of CICS-NC is a contributing author on a paper in Weather and Forecasting that explores and assesses the stage IV quantitative precipitation estimates…
Feb 27, 2015
PERSIANN: Climate Data Record and Smartphone App
The Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS) at the University of California, Irvine, a partner of CICS-NC, has developed a smartphone/tablet application called “RainMapper”…
Oct 29, 2014
The Impact of Raindrop Collisional Processes on the Polarimetric Radar Variables
Olivier Prat of CICS-NC and co-author Matthew Kumjian recently examined the complex, very small-scale processes of rainfall by combining model simulations of rainfall microphysics with…
Oct 1, 2013
Quantifying Tropical Cyclone Rainfall
Tropical cyclones (TCs) constitute one of the major natural disasters around the world as well as an important source of fresh water over areas prone…
Apr 19, 2013
Quantitative Precipitation Estimates for the SE US
The precipitation climatology of the Southeastern United States spans a very broad spectrum of precipitation regimes. A warm season that is characterized by isolated thunderstorms,…