Lower Tropospheric Warm Air Advection Patterns Associated with Heavy Rainfall over the Appalachian Region Footnote∗

∗We would like to thank Kathleen Parker, Timothy Beach, Albert Parker, David Lee, David Stooksbury, and Julie Winkler for their helpful suggestions in the earlier stages of this work. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number SES-9105628.

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