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  1. Reanalyses in the age of Machine Learning: Why Dataset Curation Matters Now More Than Ever

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March 2026, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  2. An Evaluation of Extreme Precipitation Forecasts at the Weather Prediction Center between 2012 and 2024

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, February 2026, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  3. Representation of Extreme Precipitation in High-Resolution, Long-Period-of-Record Precipitation Datasets over the Continental United States

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, January 2026, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  4. Analysis of 3 Years of Summertime Extreme Precipitation Forecasts from the High-Resolution Ensemble Forecast System

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, October 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  5. Warm-Season Extreme Precipitation Forecast Performance in the HREF Means

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, September 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  6. A Summary of U.S. Watershed Precipitation Forecast Skill and the National Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations Expansion Pathfinder Effort

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  7. Extreme Wet Spells in the Upper Colorado River Basin during the Cool Season

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, July 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  8. End-of-Century Changes in Orographic Precipitation with the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research Model over the Western United States

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, May 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  9. Implementing and Evaluating National Water Model Ensemble Streamflow Predictions Using Postprocessed Precipitation Forecasts

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, April 2025, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  10. Evaluation of Wintertime Precipitation Estimates and Forecasts in the Mountains of Colorado

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, April 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  11. Blasts from the Past: Reimagining Historical Storms with Model Simulations to Modernize Dam Safety and Flood Risk Assessment

    Article • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, February 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  12. Demonstrating a Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimate for Evaluating Precipitation Forecasts in Complex Terrain

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, January 2022, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  13. On the Uncertainty of High-Resolution Hourly Quantitative Precipitation Estimates in California

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, May 2020, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  14. A Multiscale Evaluation of Multisensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimates in the Russian River Basin

    Article • Journal of Hydrometeorology, March 2019, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  15. Researchers examine atmospheric river flood event under future conditions

    Article • Journal of Climate, August 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  16. The Representation of Cumulus Convection in High-Resolution Simulations of the 2013 Colorado Front Range Flood

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, November 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  17. Understanding the Role of Atmospheric Rivers in Heavy Precipitation in the Southeast United States

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, April 2016, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Lisa Darby

  18. Greenhouse Gas–Induced Changes in Summer Precipitation over Colorado in NARCCAP Regional Climate Models*

    Article • Journal of Climate, November 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  19. High-Resolution Downscaled Simulations of Warm-Season Extreme Precipitation Events in the Colorado Front Range under Past and Future Climates*

    Article • Journal of Climate, November 2013, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney

  20. Changes in hail and flood risk in high-resolution simulations over Colorado's mountains

    Article • Nature Climate Change, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kelly Mahoney

  21. The Sensitivity of Momentum Transport and Severe Surface Winds to Environmental Moisture in Idealized Simulations of a Mesoscale Convective System

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, May 2011, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  22. The Role of Momentum Transport in the Motion of a Quasi-Idealized Mesoscale Convective System

    Article • Monthly Weather Review, October 2009, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  23. Potential Vorticity (PV) Thinking in Operations: The Utility of Nonconservation

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, February 2008, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  24. The Effect of Upstream Convection on Downstream Precipitation

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, April 2007, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann

  25. The Sensitivity of Numerical Forecasts to Convective Parameterization: A Case Study of the 17 February 2004 East Coast Cyclone

    Article • Weather and Forecasting, August 2006, American Meteorological Society

    Kelly Mahoney, Gary M Lackmann