Abstract: A climatology of the relationship between explosive cyclogenesis and atmospheric blocking has been constructed from an investigation of sea level pressure and 500-mb height analyses over the Northern Hemisphere during seven ...

Abstract: Results from a temporally intensive, limited area, radiative transfer model experiment are on-line for investigating the vertical profile of shortwave and longwave radiative fluxes from the surface to the top of the ...

Abstract: Results of experiments conducted using the Cloud Field Optical Simulator (CFOS) to examine the variability in reflectance properties of cloud fields with fixed cloud amount but different cloud patterns are presented. Angular ...

Abstract: Rapid intensification of cyclones and anticyclones in National Meteorological Center 500-mb height analyses is investigated during the 1983?84 through 1986?87 cool seasons (September through May). Rapid intensification is ...

Abstract: Diffuse-sky solar irradiance is an important quantity for radiation budget research, particularly as it relates to climate. Diffuse irradiance is one component of the total downwelling solar irradiance and contains information ...