John Monteverdi

2006

Monteverdi, J.P., R. Edwards, G. Stumpf and D. Gudgel, 2006: An analysis of the 7 July 2004 Rockwell Pass, CA tornado: highest elevation tornado tocumented in the US. 23rd Conf. Sev. Local Storms, Preprints, St. Louis, MO.

Monteverdi, J.P., K. Saussy, A. Cross, C. Meherin, C. Medjber and S. Lau, 2006: An analysis of the 22 May 2004 Furnas County, Nebraska tornadic supercell. 23rd Conf. Sev. Local Storms, Preprints, St. Louis, MO.

Shafer, J. C., W. J. Steenburgh, J. A. W. Cox, and J. P. Monteverdi, 2006: Terrain influences on synoptic storm structure and mesoscale precipitation distribution during IPEX IOP3. Mon. Wea. Rev. 134, 478-497.

Umscheid, M.E., J. P. Monteverdi, and J.M. Davies, 2006: Photographs and analysis of an unusually large and long-lived firewhirl. Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor., 1, no. 2, 1-13. (Abstract, PDF)

2005

Monteverdi, J.P., 2005: Review of Tornadoes (by Michael Alalby). Appears in Readings, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. July 2005, 7, pp. 998-1000.

Blier, W., Monteverdi, J. and J. Null, 2005: The Historic San Francisco Flood of 25 February 2004. Amer Met Soc National Meeting, January 2005. (PDF)

Frieberg, E. and J. Monteverdi, 2005: Relationship of Warm Season Cycles in Onshore Pressure Differences to Temperatures in North-central California. Amer Met Soc National Meeting, January 2005. (PDF) (Pictures)

Gose, E., Frieberg, E., Meherin, C., and J. Monteverdi, 2005: Production of Television Forecasts for San Francisco State University Campus Television and the World Wide Web. Amer Met Soc National Meeting, January 2005. (PDF) (Pictures)

2004

Landolt, Scott D., Porter, Daniel L. and John P. Monteverdi, 2004: An Analysis of the June 23rd, 2002, Brown County, South Dakota Tornadic Cyclical Supercell. Preprints, P10.5, 22nd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, Hyannis, MA

Schlaepfer, Theodore, B. and John P. Monteverdi, 2004: Radar Documentation of a Cyclic Tornadic Supercell in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Preprints, P7.5, 22nd AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms, Hyannis, MA.

2003

Monteverdi, J. P., C. Doswell III, and G.S. Lipari, 2003: Shear parameter thresholds for forecasting tornadic thunderstorms in northern and central California. Wea. Forecasting, 18, 357-370.

2002

Hanstrum, B. N., Mills, G.A., Watson, A., Monteverdi, J.P., and Doswell, C.A.III, 2002: The cool season tornadoes of California and Australia. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 705-722.

2001

Monteverdi, J. P., W. Blier, G. Stumpf, W. Pi and K. Anderson, 2010: First WSR-88D documentation of a an anticyclonic supercell with anticyclonic tornadoes: the Sunnyvale/Los Altos tornadoes of 4 May 1998, (PDF) Mon.Wea.Rev., 129, 2805-2814. (AMS Abstract; Full Text AMS Article;

2000

Lipari, G.S., and J.P. Monteverdi: 2000: Convective and shear parameters associated with northern and central California tornadoes during the period 1990-94. Preprints---20th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms. Orlando, FL.

Monteverdi, J. P., C. Doswell III, and G.S. Lipari, 2000: Shear parameter thresholds for forecasting California tornadic thunderstorms. Preprints---20th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms. Orlando, FL.

Monteverdi, J. P., W. Blier, G. Stumpf, W. Pi and K. Anderson, 2000: First WSR-88D documentation of a an anticyclonic supercell with anticyclonic tornadoes: the Sunnyvale/Los Altos tornadoes of 4 May 1998, Preprints---20th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms. Orlando, FL...

Schlaepfer, T., and J.P. Monteverdi, 2000: A case study of a well-documented classic right-moving tornadic thunderstorm in the San Joaquin Valley, California. Preprints---20th AMS Conference on Severe Local Storms. Orlando, FL.

1998

Monteverdi, J.P. and J. Null, 1998: A balanced view of the impact of the 1997/98 El Niño on California precipitation. Weather, 53, No. 9, 310-313.

Monteverdi, J.P. and J. Null, 1998: The Impact of the 1997-98 El Niño on Precipitation in the West. Natural Hazards Observer. Volume XXII, Number 3--January 1998.

Monteverdi, J.P., Hanstrum, B., Doswell, C., Watson, Andrew and G. Lipari, 1998: Cool Season Tornadoes in Austrailia: Comparison with California cases. Presented at the 1998 Severe Storms Conference, American Meteorological Society, Sept. 14, 1998.

1997

Monteverdi, J.P., and J. Null, 1997: El Niño and California Precipitation. National Weather Service Technical Attachment 97-31.

1996

Monteverdi, J.P. and S. Johnson, 1996: A supercell thunderstorm with hook echo in the San Joaquin Valley, California. WEA. FORECASTING, 10, 246-261.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1996: Flood-producing storm types in California. Invited Paper in Preprints. Symposium on the California Floods of the Winter of 1994-1995. Sierra College, Rocklin, CA.

1995

Berg, N., M. Heggli, and J. Monteverdi, 1995: The influence of meteorology on rime and snow chemistry at a mountaintop site in northern California. Water Air Soil Poll., 81, 25-36.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1995: Meteorology of hydrologically-critical storms in California. 1995 California Weather Symposium. Sierra College, June 1995.

1994

Monteverdi, J.P. and J. Quadros, 1994: Convective and rotational parameters associated with three tornado episodes in northern and central California.WEA. FORECASTING., 9, 165-178.

Monteverdi, J.P. and J. Quadros, 1994: Convective and rotational parameters associated with three tornado outbreaks in northern and central California. National Weather Service Western Region Tech. Mem., NWS-222.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1994: A case study of the operational usefulness of the SHARP Workstation in forecasting a "cold-sector" mesocyclone-induced tornado event in northern California. National Weather Service Western Region Tech. Mem., NWS-219.

1993

Monteverdi, J.P. and J. Quadros, 1993: Convective and rotational parameters associated with three tornado outbreaks in northern and central California. National Weather Service Western Region Tech. Mem., NWS-222.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1993: A case study of the operational usefulness of the SHARP Workstation in forecasting a "cold-sector" mesocyclone-induced tornado event in northern California. National Weather Service Western Region Tech. Mem., NWS-219.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1993: Convective and rotational parameters associated with two mesocylone-induced tornado outbreaks in north-central California. Presented at the 1993 Severe Local Storms Conference, St. Louis, October 4.

Monteverdi, J.P. and J. Quadros, 1993: Convective and rotational parameters associated with three tornado episodes in northern and central California. Presented at 1993 PACLIM Conference, Asilomar, April.

1991

Braun, S.A. and J.P. Monteverdi, 1991: An investigation of a mesocyclone-induced tornado occurrence in northern California. WEA. FORECASTING, 6, 13-31.

1988

Monteverdi, J.P., Braun, S.A., and T.C. Trimble, 1988: Funnel clouds in the San Joaquin Valley, California. MON. WEA. REV. 116, 782-789.

Monteverdi, J.P. and S.A.Braun, 1988: An investigation of the 24 September 1986 "cold sector" tornado outbreak in northern California. National Weather Service Western Region Tech. Mem., NWS-203, 52 pp.

1986

Monteverdi, J.P., 1986: Translation of German weather service documents for D-Day. Proceedings of the Conference on the Role of Meteorology in the D-Day Invasion. American Meteorological Society, Boston.

1984

Monteverdi, J.P., 1984: Comparisons among three record-rain producing storms in north-central California. Excerpted in "Summary of the LANDSLIDES AND FLOODING CONFERENCE, Stanford University, August 1982". National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

Monteverdi, J.P. and E. Seibel, 1984: A documentation of oceanographic and meteorological anomalies on the West Coast during the El Nino event of 1982-83. SYMPOSIUM ON THE EL NINO EVENT OF 1982-1983. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, San Francisco State University, June 1984.

1983

Byrne, R., Granger, O., and J.P. Monteverdi, 1983: Recent rainfall trends on the margins of the subtropical deserts: a comparison of selected Northern Hemisphere regions. QUART.RES, 3, 1-12.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1983: Synoptic controls of recent warm season precipitation increases in a rainfall-sensitive agricultural region of California. SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS IN THE SEMIARID REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, Logan, Utah, June 1983.

1982

Monteverdi, J.P., 1982: Comparisons among three record-rain producing storms in north-central California. CONFERENCE ON LANDSLIDING AND FLOODING, Stanford University, August 1982.

1980

Monteverdi, J.P., 1980: The effects of the physical environment on climate. JOUR. WATER AIR SOIL POLL., 12, 23-27.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1980: An overview of the significance, patterns and meteorological controls of the precipitation variability of the Central Valley of California. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Annual Meeting, Davis, CA, June 1980.

1978

Monteverdi, J.P., 1978: A drought and an end to the drought. Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1978.

1976

Monteverdi, J.P., 1976: The single air mass disturbance and precipitation characteristics at San Francisco, MON. WEA. REV. 104, 1289-1296.

1973

Monteverdi, J.P., and B.L. Wood, 1973: The December 1972 freeze and its effects on the eucalyptus forest of the Oakland-Berkeley Hills.WEATHERWISE. 26,
160-167.

Monteverdi, J.P., 1973: The Santa Ana weather type and extreme fire hazard in the Oakland-Berkeley Hills.WEATHERWISE. 26, 118-121.