From drought to flooding in less than a week over South Carolina

A deep tropical moisture connection to Hurricane Joaquin led to historic rainfall and flooding over South Carolina from 3 to 5 October 2015, erasing the prevailing moderate to severe meteorological and agricultural drought that had developed from May through September. NASA’s Global Precipitation Mi...

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Main Author: Jonathan L. Case
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Results in Physics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379716305204
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spelling doaj-e9d4b604019e419bbc4413de295a61b02020-11-24T21:37:05ZengElsevierResults in Physics2211-37972016-01-01611831184From drought to flooding in less than a week over South CarolinaJonathan L. Case0ENSCO, Inc./NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition [SPoRT] Center, 320 Sparkman Dr., Huntsville, AL 35805, United StatesA deep tropical moisture connection to Hurricane Joaquin led to historic rainfall and flooding over South Carolina from 3 to 5 October 2015, erasing the prevailing moderate to severe meteorological and agricultural drought that had developed from May through September. NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission constellation of satellites and a real-time implementation of the NASA Land Information System highlight the precipitation and land surface response of this event. Keywords: Extreme precipitation, Flooding, NASA, Land surface modeling, Soil moisturehttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379716305204
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title_short From drought to flooding in less than a week over South Carolina
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description A deep tropical moisture connection to Hurricane Joaquin led to historic rainfall and flooding over South Carolina from 3 to 5 October 2015, erasing the prevailing moderate to severe meteorological and agricultural drought that had developed from May through September. NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission constellation of satellites and a real-time implementation of the NASA Land Information System highlight the precipitation and land surface response of this event. Keywords: Extreme precipitation, Flooding, NASA, Land surface modeling, Soil moisture
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