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Mesoscale and Radar Observations of the Fort Collins Flash Flood of 28 July 1997 by Petersen, Walter A., Carey, Lawrence D., Rutledge, Steven A., Knievel, Jason C., Doesken, Nolan J., Johnson, Richard H., McKee, Thomas B., Vonder Haar, Thomas, Weaver, John F.

“…On the evening of 28 July 1997 the city of Fort Collins, Colorado, experienced a devastating flash flood that caused five fatalities and over 200 million…”
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The Relationship of the North American Monsoon to Tropical and North Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures as Revealed by Observational Analyses by Castro, Christopher L., McKee, Thomas B., Pielke, Roger A.

“…The North American monsoon is a seasonal shift of upper- and low-level pressure and wind patterns that brings summertime moisture into the southwest United…”
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Scatter correction for three-dimensional PET based on an analytic model dependent on source and attenuating object by Hiltz, L G, McKee, B T

“…Three-dimensional positron emission tomography admits a significant scatter fraction due to the large aperture of the detectors, and requires accurate scatter…”
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Accurate attenuation correction for a 3D PET system by McKee, B T, Clack, R, Harvey, P J, Hiltz, L G, Hogan, M J, Howse, D C

“…An accurate attenuation correction has been developed for a small-volume three-dimensional positron emission tomography (PET) system. Transmission data were…”
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Attenuation correction for three-dimensional PET using uncollimated flood-source transmission measurements by McKee, B T, Hiltz, L G

“…An attenuation-correction method for three-dimensional PET imaging, which obtains attenuation-correction factors from transmission measurements using an…”
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Fort Collins Flood 1997: Comprehensive View of an Extreme Event by Grigg, Neil S, Doesken, Nolan J, Frick, David M, Grimm, Mike, Hilmes, Marsha, McKee, Thomas B, Oltjenbruns, Kevin A

“…The July 1997 flood in Fort Collins was caused by the heaviest rains ever documented over an urbanized area in Colorado, and offers a data base and…”
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Performance of QPET, a high-resolution 3D PET imaging system for small volumes by McKee, B.T.A., Dickson, A.W., Howse, D.C.

“…QPET is a positron imaging system developed at Queen's University for high-resolution, 3D imaging of small volumes; it includes a pair of planar gamma-ray…”
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Diurnal Radiance Patterns of Finite and Semi-Infinite Clouds in Observations of Cloud Fields by Ebel, David M., McKee, Thomas B.

“…One of the important radiative effects of cloud shape is to modify diurnal radiance patterns observed from satellites. Theory predicts a diurnal radiance…”
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A deconvolution scatter correction for a 3-D PET system by McKee, B.T.A., Gurvey, A.T., Harvey, P.J., Howse, D.C.

“…A method to remove the scattered background from a reconstructed image by deconvolution with a point response function which includes the scatter contribution…”
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The role of wintertime radiation in maintaining and destroying stable layers by Savoie, M. H., McKee, T. B.

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Signal-to-noise ratios for attenuation correction in PET imaging by McKee, B.T.A., Hiltz, L.G., Harvey, P.J.

“…Attenuation correction is an important part of accurate image reconstruction in positron tomography. The usual correction method involves direct measurement of…”
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Effects of Shear, Stability and Valley Characteristics on the Destruction of Temperature Inversions by Bader, David C., McKee, Thomas B.

“…A dry two-dimensional version of the Colorado State Cloud/Mesoscale Model was used to study the morning inversion destruction cycle in a variety of deep…”
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Removing the interference error between attenuation correction and scatter subtraction in 3D PET imaging by Harvey, P J, Howse, D C, McKee, B T

“…A method to remove the interference between attenuation correction and scatter subtraction has been developed for the QPET 3D imaging system at Queen's…”
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Dynamical Model Simulation of the Morning Boundary Layer Development in Deep Mountain Valleys by Bader, David C., McKee, Thomas B.

“…A dry, two-dimensional version of the Colorado State University Multi-dimensional Cloud/Mesoscale Model was used to study the cross-valley evolution of the…”
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Compton scattering in a large-aperture positron imaging system by McKee, B.T.A., Hogan, M.J., Howse, D.C.N.

“…Compton scattering of gamma rays within the image volume has been assessed for a large-aperture positron-emission-tomography imaging system. The Compton…”
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Design and Verification of a Cloud Field Optical Simulator by Davis, J. M., Cox, S. K., McKee, T. B.

“…A concept and an apparatus designed to investigate the reflected and transmitted distributions of light from optically thick clouds is presented. The Cloud…”
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Thermalization of free positronium atoms by collisions with silica-powder grains, aerogel grains, and gas molecules by Nagashima, Y, Kakimoto, M, Hyodo, T, Fujiwara, K, Ichimura, A, Chang, T, Deng, J, Akahane, T, Chiba, T, Suzuki, K, McKee, BT, Stewart, AT

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Vacancy-Formation Energies in Metals from Positron Annihilation by McKee, B. T. A., Triftshäuser, W., Stewart, A. T.

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Effects of Pacific Sea surface on North American monsoon by Castro, C L, McKee, T B, Pielke, R A

“…The North American Monsoon system is a seasonal shift of upper- and low-level pressure and wind patterns that brings summertime moisture into the southwest US…”
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The Role of Valley Geometry and Energy Budget in the Formation of Nocturnal Valley Winds by McKee, Thomas B., O'Neal, Robert D.

“…Diurnally varying up and down-valley winds are a commonly observed feature of mountain meteorology. These winds are produced through the heating and cooling of…”
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