Abstract: Smoke from wildland burning in association with fog has been implicated as a visibility hazard over roadways in the United States. Visibilities at accident sites have been estimated in the range from 1 to 3 m (extinction ...

Abstract: Rainfall, wind and temperature data at the surface for a mesoscale area surrounding St. Louis, Missouri for seven summer days in 1975 were used to determine qualitative and quantitative relationships between divergence, ...

Abstract: Primitive equation initialization, applicable to numerical prediction models, has been studied by using principles of variational calculus and the appropriate physical equations: two horizontal momentum, adiabatic energy, ...

Abstract: Tiny pressure gradient forces caused by hydrostatic truncation error can overwhelm minuscule pressure gradients that drive shallow nocturnal drainage winds in a mesobeta numerical model. In seeking a method to reduce these ...

Abstract: Single- and multiple-Doppler radar systems are increasingly being used to monitor circulations within the clear-air boundary layer where the scatterers may be gradients of the refractive index or biota or a combination of ...

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Abstract: Objective streamline analysis techniques are separated into predictor-only and predictor-corrector methods, and generalized error formulas are derived for each method. Theoretical analysis errors are obtained from the ...

Abstract: Successive corrections objective analysis techniques frequently are used to array data from limited area without consideration of how the absence of data beyond the boundaries of the network impacts the analysis in the ...

Abstract: There has been a long-standing concept by those who use successive corrections objective analysis that the way to obtain the most accurate objective analysis is first, to analyze for the long wavelengths and then to build ...

Abstract: The use of objectively analysed fields of meteorological data for complex diagnostic studies and for the initialization of numerical prediction models places the requirements upon the objective method that derivatives of ...