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The Use of High Resolution Hourly Forecast Soundings for the Prediction of Lake Effect Snow. By Thomas Niziol and Edward Mahoney, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY. Presented at the The 13th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 2-7 February 1997, Long Beach, California.
BUFKIT: A Software Application Toolkit for Predicting Lake Effect Snow. By Edward Mahoney and Thomas Niziol, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY. Presented at the The 13th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 2-7 February 1997, Long Beach, California.
An Analysis of Satellite-derived Great Lakes Surface Temperatures in Regards to Model Simulations of Lake Effect Snow. By Thomas A. Niziol, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY. Presented at the AMS 10th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, June 2003.
Contamination of WSR-88D VAD Winds Due to Bird Migration: A Case Study. By Thomas Niziol, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY. Presented at the 6th Annual Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, 17-19 September, 1997.
WSR-88D Analysis of the June 2nd 1998 Severe Weather Outbreak in Western New York. By Thomas Niziol, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY. Presented at the 8th Annual Great Lakes Operational Meteorology Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI., 18-20 August, 1998.
A Climatology of Non-Convective High Wind Events in Western New York State. By Thomas Niziol and Thomas Paone, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY. NOAA Technical Memorandum - NWS ER-91.
A Brief Analysis of River Flooding Along Major Basins in the Albany and Buffalo, NY WFO County Warning Areas. By Jessica Najuch, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY., January, 2004
EL Nino's Influence on Western New York's Winter Weather. By Robert Hamilton, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY., October 2004
A Sensitivity Study on the NOAA/GLERL Wind Wave Model used in the Graphical Forecast Editor. Powerpoint by David Zaff and Keith Jaszka, NOAA/National Weather Service, Buffalo, NY., November 2008.
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