Hawai‘i Island’s wettest spot is in the Hilo Watershed Reserve, which has an average of 23.6 feet of annual rainfall. The Wailuku River begins within the reserve and feeds numerous waterfalls, ...

ABSTRACT Flooding in the eastern United States reflects a mixture of flood-generating mechanisms, with landfalling tropical cyclones and extratropical systems playing central roles. The authors ...

The team finds that the orographic gravity waves triggered by small-scale orography over the Tibetan Plateau contribute importantly to the spring rainfall in East Asia. The impact is even ...