Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology: Recent submissions
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Tackling Oxygen Optode Drift: Near-Surface and In-Air Oxygen Optode Measurements on a Float Provide an Accurate in Situ Reference
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)yet unexplained drift of (some) oxygen optodes during storage/transport and thus significant deviations from factory/laboratory calibrations have been a major handicap for autonomous oxygen observations. Optode drift appears ... -
CERES Synoptic Product: Methodology and Validation of Surface Radiant Flux
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Clouds and the Earth?s Radiant Energy System Synoptic (SYN1deg), edition 3, product provides climate-quality global 3-hourly 1° ? 1°gridded top of atmosphere, in-atmosphere, and surface radiant fluxes. The in-atmosphere ... -
Evaluating Unsupervised Methods to Size and Classify Suspended Particles Using Digital In-Line Holography
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ubstantial information can be gained from digital in-line holography of marine particles, eliminating depth-of-field and focusing errors associated with standard lens-based imaging methods. However, for the technique to ... -
Diagnosing Rain Occurrences Using Passive Microwave Imagery: A Comparative Study on Probabilistic Graphical Models and “Black Box” Models
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ainfall is a fundamental process in the hydrologic cycle. This study investigated the cause?effect relationship in which precipitation at lower frequencies affects the amount of emitted radiation and at higher frequencies ... -
Statistical Quality Control of High-Resolution Winds of Different Radiosonde Types for Climatology Analysis
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)uality control (QC) is among the most important steps in any data processing. These steps are elaborated for high-vertical-resolution radiosonde datasets that were gathered and analyzed to study atmospheric winds. The ... -
A Study of Atmospheric Temperature and Wind Profiles Obtained from Rocketsondes in the Chinese Midlatitude Region
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n November 2004, five TK-1 meteorological rockets were launched at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China for the first time. The observations are compared with models, reanalysis, and satellite datasets. The mean ... -
Icebergs and Sea Ice Detected with Inverted Echo Sounders
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)1-yr experiment using a pressure-sensor-equipped inverted echo sounder (PIES) was conducted in Sermilik Fjord in southeastern Greenland (66°N, 38°E) from August 2011 to September 2012. Based on these high-latitude data, ... -
Ocean Speed and Turbulence Measurements Using Pitot-Static Tubes on Moorings
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)low-power (<10 mW), physically small (15.6 cm long ? 3.2 cm diameter), lightweight (600 g Cu; alternatively, 200 g Al), robust, and simply calibrated pitot-static tube to measure mean speed and turbulence dissipation is ... -
ASAR and ASCAT in Polar Low Situations
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)orecasting and monitoring polar lows are, to a large degree, based on satellite observations from passive radiometers and from scatterometer winds in addition to synoptic observations and numerical models. Synthetic aperture ... -
Vertical Structure of Ocean Pressure Variations with Application to Satellite-Gravimetric Observations
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)he nature of ocean bottom pressure variability is considered on large spatial scales and long temporal scales. Monthly gridded estimates from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Release-05 and the new version ... -
Estimating Planetary Boundary Layer Heights from NOAA Profiler Network Wind Profiler Data
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)n algorithm was developed to estimate planetary boundary layer (PBL) heights from hourly archived wind profiler data from the NOAA Profiler Network (NPN) sites located throughout the central United States. Unlike previous ... -
Performance of ERA-Interim Wave Data in the Nearshore Waters around India
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ulk wave parameters, such as wave height and wave period, are required for engineering and environmental applications. In this study, measured wave data from six shallow-water locations in the data-sparse north Indian Ocean ... -
Dynamic Interpolation of Sea Surface Height and Potential Applications for Future High-Resolution Altimetry Mapping
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)any issues may challenge standard interpolation techniques to produce high-resolution gridded maps of sea surface height in the context of future missions like Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT). The present study ... -
Evaluation of Chinese Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) Weather Reports
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)ircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) weather reports are a type of high spatiotemporal data currently widely used in weather monitoring and prediction. A recent Chinese AMDAR project began in 2003 has made rapid ... -
Automated Retrieval of Cloud and Aerosol Properties from the ARM Raman Lidar. Part I: Feature Detection
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)feature detection and extinction retrieval (FEX) algorithm for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program?s (ARM) Raman lidar (RL) has been developed. Presented here is Part I of the FEX algorithm: the detection of ... -
Harmonic Analysis in the Simulation of Multiple Constituents: Determination of the Optimum Length of Time Series
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)o investigate the optimum length of time series (TS) for harmonic analysis (HA) in the simulation of multiple constituents, a two-dimensional tidal model is used to simulate the M2, S2, K1, and O1 constituents in the Bohai ... -
LAPS–LOWICE: A Real-Time System for the Assessment of Low-Level Icing Conditions and Their Effect on Wind Power
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he wind power industry is highly sensitive to weather, and there is a clear impact on turbine efficiency associated with icing, which can cause significant power losses and even result in the total shutdown of wind farms. ... -
Updated Screening Procedures for GPROF2010 over Land: Utilization for AMSR-E
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)he Goddard profiling algorithm 2010 (GPROF2010) was revised for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observing System (EOS; AMSR-E) instrument. The GPROF2010 land algorithm was developed for the Tropical ... -
Evaluation of Long-Term Calibrations of the AVHRR Visible Radiances
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)wo systematic calibrations have been compiled for the visible radiances measured by the series of AVHRR instruments flown on the NOAA operational polar weather satellites: one by the International Satellite Cloud Climatology ... -
A Hydrometeor Classification Method for X-Band Polarimetric Radar: Construction and Validation Focusing on Solid Hydrometeors under Moist Environments
(American Meteorological Society, 2015)fuzzy-logic-based hydrometeor classification (HC) method for X-band polarimetric radar (X-pol), which is suitable for observation of solid hydrometeors under moist environments producing little or no hail, is constructed ...