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Publications

(Selected Publications in Reverse Chronological Order)

Brasher, Saber E., Daniel J. Leathers, Christina L. Callahan & Kathryn E. Giesa (2023). An analysis of the National Water Model for a mid-Atlantic suburban watershed, Physical Geography, DOI: 10.1080/02723646.2023.2260546

Brinson, Kevin R., D.J. Leathers, and S.E. Brasher (2023). Influence of synoptic weather conditions on atmometers on the Delmarva Peninsula, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 336: 2023, 109482. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109482

Callahan, J. A., Leathers, D. J., & Callahan, C. L. (2022). Comparison of Extreme Coastal Flooding Events between Tropical and Midlatitude Weather Systems in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays for 1980–2019, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 61(4), 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0077.1

Callahan, John A., and Daniel J. Leathers (2021). Estimation of Return Levels for Extreme Skew Surge Coastal Flooding Events in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays for 1980 – 2019. Frontiers in Climate, Vol. 3:684834. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2021.684834

Callahan, JA, Leathers, DJ, and Callahan CL (2021). Skew Surge and Storm Tides of Tropical Cyclones in the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays for 1980–2019. Front. Clim. 3:610062. doi: 10.3389/fclim.2021.610062

Leathers, D.J., Brasher, S.E., Brinson, K.R., Hughes, C. and Weiskopf, S. (2020). A comparison of extreme precipitation event frequency and magnitude using a high‐resolution rain gage network and NOAA Atlas 14 across Delaware. International Journal of Climatology, 40(8), pp.3748-3756. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6425

Fiebrich, C, K. Brinson, R. Mahmood, S. Foster, M. Schargorodski, N. Edwards, C. Redmond, J. Atkins, J. Andresen, X. Lin (2020) Towards the Standardization of Mesoscale Meteorological Networks. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 37, 2033–2049, https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-20-0078.1.

Hughes, C.P. and Veron, D.E. (2018). A characterization of the Delaware sea breeze using observations and modeling. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 57(7), pp.1405-1421.https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-17-0186.1

Hughes, C.P. and Veron, D.E. (2015). Characterization of low-level winds of southern and coastal Delaware. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 54(1), pp.77-93. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0011.1

Mahmood, R., R. Boyles, K. Brinson, C. Fiebrich, S. Foster, K. Hubbard, D. Robinson, J. Andresen, D. Leathers (2016). Mesonets: Meso-Scale Weather and Climate Observations for the U.S. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 98, 1349–1361. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00258.1.

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