Abstract: We examine the consequences of using a vertical wavenumber spectral model to describe variations of vertical profiles of atmospheric variables (horizontal and vertical wind, temperature, and other scalars) about a mean ...

Abstract: It is well known that the width of a clear-air Doppler radar spectrum can be used to estimate the small-scale variability of the wind. To do this accurately requires that all contributions to the spectral width be accounted ...

Abstract: The authors compare the mixing depths in the daytime convective boundary layers that were observed remotely by wind profilers and an airborne lidar during the 1995 Southern Oxidants Study. The comparison is used to determine ...

Abstract: The California Landfalling Jets Experiment (CALJET) was carried out during the winter of 1997/98, in part to study orographic rainfall in California's coastal mountains using coastal wind profilers. This observational study ...

Abstract: The NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory air?sea interaction group and collaborators at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed a seagoing measurement system suitable for mounting aboard ships. During ...

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Abstract: he variability of precipitation and water supply along the U.S. West Coast creates major challenges to the region?s economy and environment, as evidenced by the recent California drought. This variability is strongly ...

Abstract: uring Northern Hemisphere winters, the West Coast of North America is battered by extratropical storms. The impact of these storms is of paramount concern to California, where aging water supply and flood protection ...