Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Quality Control Program for Real-Time Hourly Temperature Observation in Taiwan
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)his paper introduces a quality control (QC) program for the real-time hourly land surface temperature observation developed by the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan. There are three strategies involved. The first strategy ... -
Extraction of Internal Tidal Currents and Reconstruction of Full-Depth Tidal Currents from Mooring Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)o obtain internal tidal currents and full-depth tidal currents from limited mooring observations, a method is put forward combining harmonic analysis and modal decomposition. Harmonic analysis is used to separate tidal ... -
Lidar and Pressure Measurements of Inner-Surfzone Waves and Setup
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)bservations of waves and setup on a steep, sandy beach are used to identify and assess potential applications of spatially dense lidar measurements for studying inner-surf and swash-zone hydrodynamics. There is good agreement ... -
Argos-3 Satellite Communication System: Implementation on the Arvor Oceanographic Profiling Floats
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he scientific community observes the ocean for applications in the fields of oceanography and climate research. To recover in situ data, more than 3000 profiling floats are operated in the framework of the Argo program. ... -
Improved Surface Velocity and Trajectory Estimates in the Gulf of Mexico from Blended Satellite Altimetry and Drifter Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his study investigates the results of blending altimetry-based surface currents in the Gulf of Mexico with available drifter observations. Here, subsets of trajectories obtained from the near-simultaneous deployment of ... -
Assessment of the Upper-Ocean Observing System in the Equatorial Pacific: The Role of Argo in Resolving Intraseasonal to Interannual Variability
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)sing more than 10 years of Argo temperature and salinity profiles (2004?14), a new optimal interpolation (OI) of the upper ocean in the equatorial Pacific is presented. Following Roemmich and Gilson?s procedures, which ... -
Wavelet Compression Technique for High-Resolution Global Model Data on an Icosahedral Grid
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)odern Earth modeling systems often use high-resolution unstructured grids to discretize their horizontal domains. One of the major challenges in working with these high-resolution models is to efficiently transmit and store ... -
TITAN: Thunderstorm Identification, Tracking, Analysis, and Nowcasting—A Radar-based Methodology
(American Meteorological Society, 1993)A methodology is presented for the real-time automated identification, tracking, and short-term forecasting of thunderstorms based on volume-scan weather radar data. The emphasis is on the concepts upon which the methodology ... -
Surface Wave Climatology and Its Variability in the North Indian Ocean Based on ERA-Interim Reanalysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he climate over the north Indian Ocean (NIO) is one of the most dynamic in the world because of seasonally reversing monsoon winds. In this study, the climate of the NIO and the variability of its surface waves using the ... -
A Balloonborne Particle Size, Imaging, and Velocity Probe for in Situ Microphysical Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)balloonborne instrument known as the Particle Size, Image, and Velocity (PASIV) probe has been developed at the National Severe Storms Laboratory to provide in situ microphysical measurements in storms. These observations ... -
Radar Remote Sensing Estimates of Waves and Wave Forcing at a Tidal Inlet
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he time and space variability of wave transformation through a tidal inlet is investigated with radar remote sensing. The frequency of wave breaking and the net wave breaking dissipation at high spatial resolution is ... -
Street-Scale Modeling of Storm Surge Inundation along the New Jersey Hudson River Waterfront
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)new, high-resolution, hydrodynamic model that encompasses the urban coastal waters of New Jersey along the Hudson River Waterfront opposite New York City, New York, has been developed and validated for simulating inundation ... -
High-Definition Sounding System (HDSS) for Atmospheric Profiling
(American Meteorological Society, 2016)he High-Definition Sounding System (HDSS) is an automated system deploying the expendable digital dropsonde (XDD) designed to measure wind and pressure?temperature?humidity (PTH) profiles, and skin sea surface temperature ... -
FluxEngine: A Flexible Processing System for Calculating Atmosphere–Ocean Carbon Dioxide Gas Fluxes and Climatologies
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he air?sea flux of greenhouse gases [e.g., carbon dioxide (CO2)] is a critical part of the climate system and a major factor in the biogeochemical development of the oceans. More accurate and higher-resolution calculations ... -
Bayesian Echo Classification for Australian Single-Polarization Weather Radar with Application to Assimilation of Radial Velocity Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Australian Bureau of Meteorology?s operational weather radar network comprises a heterogeneous radar collection covering diverse geography and climate. A naïve Bayes classifier has been developed to identify a range of ... -
Air-Deployed Microbuoy Measurement of Temperatures in the Marginal Ice Zone Upper Ocean during the MIZOPEX Campaign
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ir-deployed microbuoys (ADMBs) were developed as a means of measuring subsurface temperatures in the marginal ice zone (MIZ) over campaign-duration time scales to better understand how MIZ surface layer heat content ... -
Assessment of a Dual-Channel Array Spectrometer for Ground-Based Ozone Retrievals
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his study describes a dual-channel array spectrometer system designed to make high-frequency simultaneous spectral global irradiance and direct solar irradiance measurements covering the visible and ultraviolet wavelength ... -
Quality Assessment Techniques Applied to Surface Radial Velocity Maps Obtained from High-Frequency Radars
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)his paper presents examples of the data quality assessment of surface radial velocity maps obtained from shore-based single and multiple high-frequency radars (HFRs) using statistical and dynamical approaches in a hindcast ... -
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Validation of HY-2A Remotely Sensed Wave Heights against Buoy Data and Jason-2 Altimeter Measurements
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Haiyang-2A (HY-2A; HaiYang means ocean in Chinese) satellite was successfully launched in China on 16 August 2011, carrying the nation?s first operational radar altimeter along with three other microwave sensors. In ...