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RISLayer Cloud Amounts for January and July 1979 from 3D-Nephanalysis
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Layer cloud amounts for the months of January and July 1979 have been extracted from a compressed version of the U.S. Air Force's 3D-nephanalysis. These layer cloud amounts are discussed in the context of the total cloud ...
A Simple Numerical Simulation of Urban Mixing Depths
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A simple model of urban mixing height is developed and yields an equation for the height of the inversion h? as a function of distance downwind into the city in the case of non-planar topography. Since many British cities ...
Predicting Generalized Ecosystem Groups with the NCAR CCM: First Steps towards an Interactive Biosphere
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Canopy-plus-soil ?big-leaf? models of the land surface now exist and are being incorporated in global climate models. These big-leaf models could be the basis for the incorporation of an interactive land biosphere into ...
A Factorial Assessment of the Sensitivity of the BATS Land-Surface Parameterization Scheme
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Land-surface schemes developed for incorporation into global climate models include parameterizations that are not yet fully validated and depend upon the specification of a large (20?50) number of ecological and soil ...
An Evaluation of Proposed Representations of Subgrid Hydrologic Processes in Climate Models
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The temporal and spatial scales that characterize surface hydrologic processes provide conceptual and practical difficulties to the development of parameterization schemes for incorporation into climate models. In particular, ...
Evaluation of AMIP II Global Climate Model Simulations of the Land Surface Water Budget and Its Components over the GEWEX-CEOP Regions
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: The land surface water balance components simulated by 20 atmospheric global circulation models (AGCMs) participating in phase II of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP II) are analyzed globally and over ...
1979 3D-Nephanalysis Global Total Cloud Amount Climatology
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A one-year global total cloud amount climatology has been compiled from the U.S. Air Force's 3D-nephanalysis cloud archive. The derived cloud distributions are shown to be reliable and in good agreement with major features ...
The Effect of Spatial and Temporal Averaging on Sampling Strategies for Cloud Amount Data
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Sampling and averaging strategies are as significant an influence upon the resulting cloud climatologies as the resolution of the original cloud archives. An investigation of total cloud amount data, as represented by the ...
Almost a Century of “Imaging” Clouds Over the Whole-Sky Dome
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Meteorological whole-sky photography can be traced back to just after the turn of the century. Capturing an objective and well-determined view of the cloud cover over the whole-sky dome has been one of the principal goals ...