CUERE Seminar: Dr. Jeffrey Halverson

On the evening of July 30, 2016, historical Ellicott City, MD was inundated by a deadly and highly destructive flash flood.  This talk examines the rainfall distribution and meteorology behind the event.  Just a few weeks later, on September 28-29, a second flash flood unfolded across southern Maryland, producing 8”-10” rain totals.  Both of these events were convective in nature and shared common synoptic-scale attributes.  In both cases, meteorologists broadly recognized a regional flash flood threat, but were unable to a priori localize the regions receiving greatest rain totals.   The talk concludes with a discussion of these ongoing predictive challenges.

This seminar series http://cuere.umbc.edu/seminar-series/spring-2016/ is free and open to the public.

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Parking passes for off-campus guests in the TRC lot are required at the cost of $4.00 per car.  Parking passes may be picked up and paid for (cash only) before seminar by stopping by the CUERE office in TRC 102 /105 and seeing a staff member.  Please contact us at 410-455-1763with any questions regarding logistics.  

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