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      • A 10-yr Climatology of Amazonian Rainfall Derived from Passive Microwave Satellite Observations 

        Negri, Andrew J.; Anagnostou, Emmanouil N.; Adler, Robert F. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
        In this study, a satellite-derived precipitation ?climatology? (climate description) over northern South America using a passive microwave technique, the Goddard Profiling algorithm, is presented. The results are statistically ...

      • A 500-kHz Sferics Range Detector 

        Kohl, Douglas A. (American Meteorological Society, 1969)
        The high probability of detecting physically limited sferics pulse energies during some part of the overall lightning process was used in the development of a narrow band receiver-detector range sensor. An rf amplifier and ...

      • A 7-Yr Climatological Study of Land Breezes over the Florida Spaceport 

        Case, Jonathan L.; Wheeler, Mark M.; Manobianco, John; Weems, Johnny W.; Roeder, William P. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
        Seven years of wind and temperature data from a high-resolution network of 44 towers at the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were used to develop an objective method for identifying land breezes, ...

      • A Balloonborne Acoustic Sounder 

        Arnold, Lyndon N. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
        An account is given of the design and construction of an experiment in which a monostatic acoustic sounder was mounted beneath a gondola carried by a freely ascending polyethylene balloon. By interrogating a volume of the ...

      • A Balloonborne Instrument for the Measurement of Vertical Profiles of Supercooled Liquid Water Concentration 

        Hill, Geoffrey E.; Woffinden, Duard S. (American Meteorological Society, 1979)
        A vibrating wire placed in the humidity duct of a standard U.S. rawinsonde is used to measure vertical profiles of the concentration of supercooled liquid water in clouds. The natural frequency of vibration varies according ...

      • A Bayesian Analysis of Two Probability Models Describing Thunderstorm Activity at Cape Kennedy, Florida 

        Williford, W. O.; Carter, Michael C.; Hsieh, Paul (American Meteorological Society, 1974)
        Probability models describing the variation in thunderstorm activity at Cape Kennedy, Florida, are presented and analyzed from a Bayesian statistical point of view. This includes a brief outline of a Bayesian analysis of ...

      • A Bayesian Approach to Decision Making in Applied Meteorology 

        Epstein, Edward S. (American Meteorological Society, 1962)
        The problem of decision making in applied meteorology is approached from the point of view of decision theory and subjectivist statistics. The modern concept of ?utility? is discussed, and optional rules for decision making ...

      • A Bayesian Approach to Microwave Precipitation Profile Retrieval 

        Evans, K. Franklin; Turk, Joseph; Wong, Takmeng; Stephens, Graeme L. (American Meteorological Society, 1995)
        A multichannel passive microwave precipitation retrieval algorithm is developed. Bayes theorem is used to combine statistical information from numerical cloud models with forward radiative transfer modeling. Amultivariate ...

      • A Bistatic Multiple-Doppler Radar Network 

        Wurman, Joshua; Heckman, Stanley; Boccippio, Dennis (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
        A multiple-Doppler radar network can be constructed using only one, traditional, transmitting pencil-beam radar and one or more passive, low-gain, nontransmitting receivers at remote sites. Radiation scattered from the ...

      • A Bivariate Mixed Lognormal Distribution with an Analysis of Rainfall Data 

        Shimizu, Kunio (American Meteorological Society, 1993)
        The paper proposes a bivariate Mixed lognormal (?2) distribution as a probability model for representing rainfalls, containing zeros, measured at two monitoring sites and provides the maximum-likelihood (ML) estimates or ...

      • A Bulk Microphysics Parameterization with Multiple Ice Precipitation Categories 

        Straka, Jerry M.; Mansell, Edward R. (American Meteorological Society, 2005)
        A single-moment bulk microphysics scheme with multiple ice precipitation categories is described. It has 2 liquid hydrometeor categories (cloud droplets and rain) and 10 ice categories that are characterized by habit, size, ...

      • A Calculation of Percentage Area Covered by Convective Clouds from Moisture Convergence 

        Krishnamurti, T. N. (American Meteorological Society, 1968)
        In large-scale tropical flows an estimate of the percentage area covered by active convective cloud elements may be made according to certain theoretical formulations involving parameterization of convective-scale motions. ...

      • A Calibration of the NCAR Acoustical Ice Nucleus Counter 

        Steele, Roger L.; Edwards, C. P.; Grant, Lewis O.; Langer, Gerhard (American Meteorological Society, 1967)
        The NCAR acoustical ice nucleus counter was calibrated against a Bigg-Warner Weather Bureau type chamber modified as a mixing chamber. The mixing chamber was in turn calibrated against the CSU-NSF isothermal diffusion cloud ...

      • A Calorimetric Jet Engine Technique for Estimating the Condensed Water Mixing Ratio in Cumulus Clouds for Cloud Physical and Weather Modification Research 

        Morgan, Griffith; Schormann, Mark; Botha, Erika; Mather, Graeme K. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
        A technique has been developed for deriving estimates of condensed water mixing ratio in cumulus clouds from measurements of potential temperature in the air in the compressor of a jet engine. Condensate that enters the ...

      • A Calorimetric Method for Measuring Water Content of Hailstones 

        Gitlin, Sonia N.; Fogler, H. Scott; Goyer, Guy G. (American Meteorological Society, 1966)
        A calorimetric method for measuring the liquid water content of hailstones has been developed. When parameters such as the radiative losses of the system and the changes in heat capacity of the apparatus are eliminated by ...

      • A Case of Rapid Cooling near the Tropopause, near a Line of Tall Thunderstorms 

        Long, Michael J. (American Meteorological Society, 1966)
        Five serial soundings at Ft. Worth, Tex., measured rapid cooling (5?7C in 1½?2 hr) just above the tropopause, near 150 mb, during and then again after the passage of a line of tall thunderstorms. The individual thunderstorm ...

      • A Case Study in Atmospheric Lead Pollution of North German Coastal Regions 

        Kapitza, Hartmut; Eppel, Dieter P. (American Meteorological Society, 2000)
        The seasonal differences of transport and deposition of atmospheric lead over the coastal zone of northern Germany are investigated. It is shown that marked differences can occur in the effect on the ecologically valuable ...

      • A Case Study of Persistent, Intense, Cleat Air Turbulence in an Upper Level Frontal Zone 

        Reed, Richard J.; Hardy, Kenneth R. (American Meteorological Society, 1972)
        Widespread and persistent clear air turbulence (CAT) occurred over the Eastern Seaboard of the United States between New York and South Carolina on 18 March 1969. The major synoptic features and a qualitative discussion ...

      • A Case Study of Radioactive Fallout 

        Reiter, Elmar R. (American Meteorological Society, 1963)
        During September 1961 a series of balloon ascents made from Flin Flon, Canada, carrying scintillation counters sensitive to gamma radiation, revealed the existence of shallow stable atmospheric layers carrying radioactive ...

      • A Case Study of Stratospheric Ozone Affecting Ground-Level Oxidant Concentrations 

        Lamb, Robert G. (American Meteorological Society, 1977)
        During the predawn hours of 19 November 1972, the air pollution monitoring station at Santa Rosa, Calif., recorded five consecutive hours of oxidant concentrations in excess of the present National Ambient Air Quality ...