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An Analysis of Monthly Mean Wind Stress Over the Global Ocean
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The monthly wind stress over the global ocean has been calculated using updated climatological monthly mean wind data. The effect of the variablility of the wind has been incorporated by using the wind speed frequency ...
Numerical Study of Terrain-Induced Mesoscale Motions and Hydrostatic Form Drag in a Heated, Growing Mixed Layer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A four-layer three-dimensional model whose lowest layer is a time and space-dependent, well-mixed boundary layer is employed over artificial, irregular terrain on the mesoscale during a daytime heating cycle. Only if the ...
Numerical Study of Terrain-Induced Mesoscale Motions in a Mixed Layer
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Numerical integrations using a potential enstrophy conserving scheme are presented for the flow within a mixed layer over hilly terrain using the hydrostatic shallow-water equations with a quadratic drag law. The mesoscale ...
Applications of Kalman Filtering to Derive Water Vapor Profiles from Raman Lidar and Microwave Radiometers
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A two-stage retrieval technique is presented for deriving water vapor profiles from data provided by a Raman lidar, a microwave radiometer, a radio acoustic sounding system, and surface in situ instruments. In the first ...
Remote Sensing of Boundary Layer Temperature Profiles by a Scanning 5-mm Microwave Radiometer and RASS: Comparison Experiments
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Two techniques for deriving low-altitude temperature profiles were evaluated in an experiment conducted from November 1996 to January 1997 at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO). The first used a scanning, single ...
An Arctic Springtime Mixed-Phase Cloudy Boundary Layer Observed during SHEBA
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The microphysical characteristics, radiative impact, and life cycle of a long-lived, surface-based mixed-layer, mixed-phase cloud with an average temperature of approximately ?20°C are presented and discussed. The cloud ...
Multiwavelength Observations of a Developing Cloud System: The FIRE II 26 November 1991 Case Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Simultaneous multiwavelength measurements of a developing cloud system were obtained by NOAA Doppler lidar, Doppler radar, Fourier transform infrared interferometer, and microwave and infrared radiometers on 26 November ...
Ground-Based Remote Sensor Observations during PROBE in the Tropical Western Pacific
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: From 6 January to 28 February 1993, the second phase of the Pilot Radiation Observation Experiment (PROBE) was conducted in Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. Routine data taken during PROBE included radiosondes released every 6 ...