Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Comparison of Distributional Statistics of Aquarius and Argo Sea Surface Salinity Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)alinity is an indicator of the interaction between ocean circulation and the global water cycle, which in turn affects the regulation of the earth?s climate. To thoroughly understand sea surface salinity?s connection to ... -
Intercomparison and Potential Synergies of Three Methods for Weather Radar Antenna Pointing Assessment
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)hree methods for estimation of the weather radar antenna azimuth and elevation pointing offsets are compared. Two of the methods reviewed use the known location of the sun as a reference. The first of these methods is based ... -
Evaluating the Hardness Characteristics of Hail through Compressive Strength Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)hroughout historical literature anecdotal or visual observations have been used to describe the hardness property of hailstones (e.g., hard, soft, slushy). A unique field measurement device was designed and built to apply ... -
The Modular Aerial Sensing System
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)atellite remote sensing has enabled remarkable progress in the ocean, earth, atmospheric, and environmental sciences through its ability to provide global coverage with ever-increasing spatial resolution. While exceptions ... -
A Bayesian Approach for Integrated Raindrop Size Distribution (DSD) Retrieval on an X-Band Dual-Polarization Radar Network
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)raindrop size distribution (DSD) retrieval method for a weather radar network consisting of several X-band dual-polarization radars is proposed. An iterative maximum likelihood (ML) estimator for DSD retrieval in a single ... -
Numerical Investigation of Wind Waves in the Persian Gulf: Bathymetry Effects
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he effects of bathymetry on the process of wind-wave generation in the Persian Gulf have been investigated using a long-term hindcasting analysis. A 5-yr (2004?08) hindcasting procedure is first performed (denoted as origin) ... -
A New Class of Quality Controls for Micrometeorological Data in Complex Tropical Environments
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)uality control is a particularly demanding problem for micrometeorological studies in complex environments. With the transition to electronic sensing and storage of climate data in high temporal resolution, traditional ... -
An Improved Algorithm for the Detection of Cirrus Clouds in the Tibetan Plateau Using VIIRS and MODIS Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)irrus clouds play an important role in the global radiation budget balance. However, the existing MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) cirrus cloud test algorithms struggle to provide accurate cirrus ... -
An Initial Assessment of the Surface Reference Technique Applied to Data from the Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) on the GPM Satellite
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)t has long been recognized that path-integrated attenuation (PIA) can be used to improve precipitation estimates from high-frequency weather radar data. One approach that provides an estimate of this quantity from airborne ... -
Effects of Antenna Patterns on Cloud Radar Polarimetric Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his paper presents an experimental analysis of the antenna system effects on polarimetric measurements conducted with cloud radars operating in the linear depolarization ratio (LDR) mode. Amplitude and phase of the copolar ... -
Ocean State Forecast along Ship Routes: Evaluation Using ESSO-INCOIS Real-Time Ship-Mounted Wave Height Meter and Satellite Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)cean state forecast (OSF) along ship routes (OAS) is an advisory service of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) that helps mariners to ensure ... -
Improve the Simulations of Near-Inertial Internal Waves in the Ocean General Circulation Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he near-inertial wind work and near-inertial internal waves (NIWs) in the ocean have been extensively studied using ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) forced by 6-hourly winds or wind stress obtained from atmospheric ... -
Early Dynamics of Deep Blue XBT Probes
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)xpendable bathythermographs (XBTs) are probes widely used to monitor global ocean heat content, variability of ocean currents, and meridional heat transports. In the XBT temperature profile, the depth is estimated from the ... -
Correcting Daytime Thermal Offset in Unventilated Pyranometers
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)main source of error in solar radiation measurements is the thermal offset inherent to pyranometers. Despite acknowledgment of its importance, its correction has been widely ignored for several decades. This neglect may ... -
Gap Filling of the Coastal Ocean Surface Currents from HFR Data: Application to the Mid-Atlantic Bight HFR Network
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)igh-frequency radar (HFR) surface current data are an increasingly utilized tool for capturing complex dynamics of coastal ocean systems worldwide. The radar is uniquely capable of sampling relevant temporal and spatial ... -
Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) to Evaluate the Potential Impact of an Optical Autocovariance Wind Lidar (OAWL) on Numerical Weather Prediction
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he potential impact of Doppler wind lidar (DWL) observations from a proposed optical autocovariance wind lidar (OAWL) instrument is quantified in observing system simulation experiments (OSSEs). The OAWL design would provide ... -
Microelectrode Velocity Effects and Aquatic Eddy Covariance Measurements under Waves
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)nterest in validating the eddy covariance (EC) technique under wave-induced flows led to a series of experiments in a 104-m-long large wave flume (LWF) using an acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) and two oxygen microelectrodes ... -
Identification of Range Overlaid Echoes Using Polarimetric Radar Measurements Based on a Fuzzy Logic Approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) of South Korea operates two S-band dual-polarimetric radars, as of 2013, to manage water resources through quantitative rainfall estimations at the surface level. ... -
The Evolution of the Goddard Profiling Algorithm to a Fully Parametric Scheme
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Goddard profiling algorithm has evolved from a pseudoparametric algorithm used in the current TRMM operational product (GPROF 2010) to a fully parametric approach used operationally in the GPM era (GPROF 2014). The fully ... -
A Statistical Method for Correlating Paired Wave Spectra
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)cean wave spectra are complex. Because of this complexity, no widely accepted method has been developed for the comparison between two sets of paired wave spectra. A method for intercomparing wave spectra is developed based ...