Disturbance Driven Rainfall on O‘ahu
This research explores the relationship between 4-types of atmospheric disturbances and their contributions to daily rainfall on O‘ahu Hawai‘i. On average, atmospheric disturbances account for 29% of the annual and 41% of the seasonal (Nov – April) rainfall on O‘ahu Hawai‘i. Cold, fronts are the most common disturbance type, and fronts that cross over the island are shown to bring significantly more rainfall than the fronts that track to the north of the Island chain…